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**Job Title**:
Technical Sales Specialist, Animal Health, Australia and New Zealand
Reports To: Technical Sales Manager, Australia/New Zealand
Position Location: Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, Sydney or Melbourne, Australia
**Overview**
This will be achieved by improving your knowledge of the market, product and customer needs accompanied by selling and business building skills to successfully promote and drive sales of Animal Health products and services to achieve or exceed the assigned territory sales plan.
**How Will You Make an Impact?**
- Sell and promote a select band of products to identified customer segments in the defined territory of Australia and New Zealand
- Managing existing accounts and prospecting for new business that will contribute to sales growth
- Meeting and aspiring to exceed sales targets
- Providing information to and from the territory, including providing written reports as requested,
- Take initial leads from reagent and systems teams and qualify further.
- Promoting the Employer's image and product reputation.
**Key responsibilities**
- Servicing and Managing the Customer Base
- Produce Forward Call Cycle/Plan.
- Make regular customer calls
- Identify new business opportunities and work with the Technical Sales Manager to develop sales potential.
- Respond to enquiries and complaints that will reinforce the company's position.
- Cross collaborate within the ANZ business and other Life science functions globally
- Meets with contacts within the veterinary and livestock industry to drive new business.
**Sales Promotion**
- Follow the directive selling program to increase the sales of the targeted products.
- Attend Trade Exhibitions & Conferences as required to generate leads and prospects
- Conduct customer specific promotions to encourage sales growth and the development of a positive company position.
**Product / Market Knowledge**
- Constantly develop product knowledge through company literature and other independent sources of technical information.
- Acquire and report information of market trends, competitive promotions and other activities from the market that may aid the sales and marketing activity.
- Actively take part in internal product training
**Budgets / Targets**
- Essential to meet Revenue and Gross Profit sales targets as set each year for the defined territory and contribute to the achievement of the region goals.
- Meet sales targets as set for specific promotional activities.
**Administration and Reports**
- Maintain accurate and detailed customer records on the company CRM.
- Provide weekly sale reports to be made to the Technical Sales Manager.
- All other requested reports by due dates.
**Experience and skills**
- Educated at BSc. Level or above. PhD preferred. (Biotech, Vet Science).
- At least two years sales experience preferred.
- Successful track record of achieving results and market development in collaboration with others
- Excellent analytical, communications—(oral and written) and project management skills
**Critical Skills**
- Strong understanding of the animal diagnostic market with experience in molecular technologies.
- Strategic selling and market development ability
- Presentation skills that can be applied internally and in the marketplace
**Desirable Skills**
- A Master Degree or PhD in life sciences is highly desirable
- Strategic and tactical market development skills.
- Demonstrated ability to be effective in a globally matrixed organization
- Able to work independently with limited day-to-day strategic direction
- frequent travel may be required (training, events and/or customer visits)