Skills
36 skills are associated with this occupation.
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Essential knowledge
8 skills
Essential skills / competences
12 skills
Optional knowledge
7 skills
Optional skills / competences
9 skills
Overview
Medical sales representatives promote and sell medical devices, equipment and pharmaceutical products to healthcare professionals, explaining product features and negotiating sales contracts.
In job descriptions, look for product demonstrations, medical terminology, biomedical knowledge, customer visits, sales analysis, budgets, event marketing, order information and pharmacovigilance awareness.
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Open in Job ExplorerWhat the work can involve
Medical sales representatives work between healthcare customers, product information and sales targets. The role involves explaining devices, equipment or pharmaceuticals, arranging visits and moving contracts through the sales process.
Skills and specializations
Useful depth includes biomedical science, medical terminology, product advice, sales analysis, event marketing, budgets, order information, medication classification and pharmacovigilance awareness.
Salary context
Salary context depends on product portfolio, territory size, sales targets, customer seniority, travel load, contract responsibility, budget ownership and technical depth of the medical products.
Career paths
Experience can lead toward key account work, product management, sales leadership, market access support, medical device specialization or training roles for sales teams.
Good to know
Check whether adverts name products, customer groups, territory, visit frequency, demonstration duties, sales metrics, CRM use, budget responsibility and pharmacovigilance routines.
Editorial note
This guide is editorial career context. It is not official labour-market statistics or role-specific salary data.
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Occupation group
Technical and medical sales professionals (excluding ICT) (2433)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/ab762f91-d737-485f-a85c-67cab92dee01 |
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| ESCO code | 2433.2 |
| ISCO group | 2433 |
| Concept type | Occupation |