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Job Description
Our sales team supports our customers by providing clinical information about our products, educating them about our products, offering clinical training and making resources available. In this way we help healthcare systems and healthcare providers meet the needs of patients in their area of responsibility.
Our company's vision is to save and improve human lives.
In the area of vaccines, we contribute by using our vaccines and services to help as many people as possible lead healthier and better lives.
That is our motivation.
In our team, with our attractive offering, we focus on the patients of primary care physicians in outpatient practice. Here we concentrate on HPV and pneumococcal vaccination and upcoming product launches. We support our customers by providing medical information about our products, educating them about our products and offering medical training. We work closely across functions, data-driven and always customer-focused.
As a Vaccines Specialist Representative (m/f/d), you will, among other things, identify customer needs with the help of data analysis and offer tailored solutions to our customers through the use of new technologies and an omnichannel strategy. In doing so, you will use agile working methods. You will work closely in a team with colleagues in the region, your regional manager and cross-functionally with related departments. Together, you will develop and test new ideas and solution approaches within the framework of the overall strategy.
For our team, we are looking for a motivated, committed and goal-oriented Vaccines Specialist Representative (m/f/d) as of the earliest possible date, who, as a manager in the territory, will proactively work on building intensive and sustainable customer relationships.
Two positions are to be filled.
Territory: Bielefeld, Detmold, Rheda-Wiedenbrück
**Your responsibilities:**
- Ensuring an intensive, customer-centric customer journey in the territory (this includes acquiring all current territory-relevant knowledge of the therapeutic environment, such as knowledge of regional scientific leaders, physician networks, healthcare policy specifics, as well as vaccine-specific knowledge)
- Customer visits on an equal footing with general practitioners, practitioners and internists as well as associated medical assistants and relevant pharmacies as a central part of our customer interaction
- Independent analysis of relevant customer and market data using data-based decision-making
- Implementation of centrally organized omnichannel campaigns. Individual customer care with preparation and follow-up of contacts in the defined target groups in the territory. Development and implementation of customer-specific customer journeys across all available channels (online and offline), taking into account individual customer needs
- Organization and delivery of high-quality, state-of-the-art training concepts that offer clear customer value
- Planning of regional activities within the team and corresponding resource allocation
- Active participation in shaping and conducting team meetings to implement a regional strategy based on the overall strategy in your own territory
- Representing the company at congresses and specialist conferences
- Ongoing cross-functional exchange and collaboration with colleagues in the team, the health policy field force, regional manager, marketing, medical and participation in project teams
**Your profile:**
- The needs of patients and customers are at the center of all your activities and decisions
- You have a completed university degree or vocational training and meet the legal requirements under §75 AMG
- You enjoy working in omnichannel sales and actively shaping it
- Innovation in developing and piloting new approaches is a must for you to increase customer value
- You pursue the set goals with your team in a determined way and address challenges in a solution-oriented and constructive manner
- You have sales talent, negotiation skills, sales experience and experience in building customer relationships, and you have field experience
- Experience in supporting office-based physicians and pharmacists is preferred
- Experience in selling vaccines is preferred
- A positive and confident manner makes it easy for you to give presentations
- You are flexible, structured and organized in planning your customer appointments (travel up to 85%)
- You have fluent German skills, both written and spoken, and preferably also English
- We promote agile working methods in order to continuously increase our efficiency and customer focus, develop innovative solutions and respond flexibly to changing market conditions.
We are proud to be a company that lives its values with its diverse, talented and committed employees. The fastest way to advance innovative developments is to bring different ideas together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to discuss their ideas objectively and to tackle problems together. We see ourselves as an equal opportunity employer and are committed to promoting inclusive, diverse workplaces.
People with severe disabilities and those equivalent to them will be given preference when equally qualified.
**Additional location(s) Compensation Information:**
**Required Skills:**
Company Representation, Customer Communications, Customer Relationship Building, Omnichannel Strategy, Primary Care, Sales, Sales Presentations, Sales Territory Management, Self Motivation, Vaccinology
**Preferred Skills:**
English Language, German Language
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**Employee Status:**
Regular
**Relocation:**
No relocation
**VISA Sponsorship:**
No
**Travel Requirements:**
100%
**Flexible Work Arrangements:**
Remote
**Shift:**
Not Indicated
**Valid Driving License:**
Yes
**Hazardous Material(s):**
N/A
**Job Posting End Date:**
11/18/2026
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