Job Description

Professional Competencies Required:

• Business Acumen: Understands and intelligently applies economic, financial, and industry data to make business

decisions.

• Working Across Boundaries: Thinks and acts beyond one's silo - bridges team, functional, divisional and/or geographical boundaries.

• Strategic Thinking: Visualizes the way forward, identifying opportunities that add value to the work and to the business.

• Productive Communication: Plans and delivers ideas and information to others in an impactful manner.

• Problem solving: Gathers and analyzes data and effectively responds to new, complex or problematic situations. Creates solutions that drive value for company and our customers, incorporating innovative approaches where relevant.

• Influencing/Negotiation skills: Ability to understand both internal and customer perspectives so as to be able to build a strategy for financial and value-based Negotiation.

Functional Competencies Required:

• Customer & Market Insights: Ability to develop a deep understanding of customer needs, behaviors and goals, as

well as market dynamics, competitor analysis and trends to improve overall business outcomes.

• Customer Engagement: Ability to identify and appropriately build and maintain long-term, sustainable relationships

with customers, external stakeholders, and key influencers through a variety of relationship-building approaches.

• Strategic Business Management: Ability to set strategic plans, manage profitability (P&L), consider execution

tradeoffs and continuously adjust approaches to maximize business performance and increase sales and profitability.

• Market Access: Ability to apply knowledge of the healthcare environment, payer decision-making processes, product pricing and reimbursement to appropriately demonstrate value to customers so as to maximize profitable access for company products.

• Product knowledge and portfolio management: Ability to apply understanding of company's large portfolio of products and services, including product lifecycle stages and new product launches, to create an optimal plan in matching individual offerings to customer needs and interests.

• Regulatory and compliance knowledge: Ability to comply with legal and regulatory requirements in the pharmaceutical and/or consumer products industry and adhere to internal compliance controls.

• Account Management: Ability to understand multiple interdependencies within an account, consider customer goals and needs, maximize account performance, and provide value-based offerings by building long-term relationships through collaborative business planning processes and approaches.

Desired Experience/Education:

• Degree in Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical or Health Sciences, or a related field. Additional qualification(s) in business or related field is an advantage.

• 3+ years of experience in hospital tender/sale businesses for pharmaceutical products.

• Strong knowledge of customer/business strategy, Tender process and circular.

• Good understanding of pharmaceutical regulations and compliance requirements)

• Excellent negotiation, communication, problem-solving and interpersonal skills, including experience in public speaking and presentations to decision-makers.

• Proficiency in data reporting tools and analytics, and tender/sales performance metrics.

• Ability to work independently as well as part of cross-functional team.

• English language preferred

Required Skills:

Bid Writing, Contract Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Customer Service, Financial Acumen, Market Analysis, Operational Delivery, Product Knowledge, Profit Planning, Quality Leadership, Sales Strategy Development, Solutions Development, Spreadsheet Management, Ukrainian Language

Preferred Skills:

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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

VISA Sponsorship:

Travel Requirements:

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Not Applicable

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Job Posting End Date:

05/31/2026

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