Categories: Pharmaceutical, Sales, Leadership, Vaccines

Job Description

Position overview:

Our Sales Team Leader Vaccines inspires, supports and leads group of colleagues interacting face to face with our customers. She/he strives to understand the customers’ needs and coordinates omnichannel efforts across territory of North-Eastern Poland to support and grow our customer centric business model. The Sales Team Leader is based in the field within his/her defined territory and reports to the relevant Franchise Lead.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Leading the vaccines sales team in a respective territory ( North-Eastern Poland).

• Fostering psychologically safe environment whilst not compromising on performance.

• Orchestrating omnichannel effort across entire territory in close cooperation with Marketing and Medical functions.

• Ensuring marketing strategy is going properly implemented across all supervised territories.

• Developing and implementing territory activity plans to ensure achieving goals, regularly revising activities against achievement and market conditions.

• Building and maintaining effective working relationships with local KOLs.

• Contributing to marketing and planning processes.

• Ensuring the team activities are properly tracked in the CRM system to inform marketing strategies and tactics.

• Regularly analyzing CRM data to support omnichannel planning, liaising with the Digital team to ensure data-driven decision making.

• Maintaining top level of product knowledge and ensure the supervised team does so, as well as a broader understanding of market.

• Ensuring effective communication across sales, marketing and all other relevant teams.

• Ensure highest level of integrity in the territory.

Skills and competences required

• Proven track record in a sales leadership role

• Strong but humble leadership

• Integrity

• Strategic thinking

• Ability to build long term business relationships

• High level of flexibility and resilience

• Negotiation and influencing skills

• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

• Ability to work well with others, demonstrated collaboration skills and inclusive behaviors.

• Top IT and MS Office literacy (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Required Skills:

Accountability, Customer Needs Assessments, Developing Pricing Strategies, Direct Marketing, Financial Analysis, Interpersonal Relationships, Leadership, Managing Sales Teams, Marketing Strategy Implementation, Market Research, Operational Efficiency, People Leadership, Pricing Processes, Product Management, Sales Operations, Short Term Planning, Supervisory Management, Team Collaboration, Transfer Pricing Documentation

Preferred Skills:

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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

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Travel Requirements:

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Not Applicable

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Job Posting End Date:

02/27/2026

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