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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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Search jobsWhat 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.
Where might this occupation occur?
This occupation may occur in several kinds of economic activity. Here are some examples and other occupations that may be found in the same areas.
Wholesale of other machinery and equipment
This is one example. Other occupations in this activity include technical sales representative in the textile machinery industry and technical sales representative in machinery and industrial equipment.
Explore this activityThese examples offer an overview but do not show every economic activity where the occupation may occur.
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The selection is based on how occupations are connected to economic activities in ESCO and NACE. Only a few examples are shown to make the information easier to use. The occupations were selected because they are close in occupation area and important skills. The examples are not a ranking. They do not show where most people work, where demand is highest, or which occupation is best suited to a particular person.
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O*NET relationships
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O*NET relationships: 1
Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products
41-4011.00
O*NET occupation is broader
The O*NET occupation covers a broader field of work than this ESCO occupation.
The official mapping connects this O*NET occupation to many ESCO occupations.
Source and method
These relationships come from the official European Commission O*NET–ESCO crosswalk.
Relationship direction: O*NET occupation to ESCO occupation.
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NACE Rev. 2.1
Economic activities linked to this occupation.
46.64Wholesale of other machinery and equipment47.74Retail sale of medical and orthopaedic goods
Alternative labels
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 |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 2433.2 |
| ISCO group | 2433 |
| Concept type | Occupation |