Anish Thomas, Senior Medical Representative

Anish Thomas

Senior Medical Representative

Dar Al Dawa

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Master's degree, Sales & Marketing
Experience
21 years, 8 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :21 years, 8 Months

Senior Medical Representative at Dar Al Dawa
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since February 2011

 Planning work schedules as well as weekly and monthly timetables. This involves working with the area sales supervisor/manager and discussing future targets with the area sales manager.
 Detailing clients and generating secondary sales.
 Regularly attending company meetings, technical data presentations and briefings.
 Keeping updated with the latest product data supplied by the company and interpreting, presenting and discussing this data with clients during presentations.
 Extensively covered the retail and wholesale markets of Abu Dhabi, Al Ain and Dubai.
 Staying up to date with competitors' products and activities.
 Developing strategies for increasing opportunities, to meet and talk to contacts in the relevant industries.
 Working with team managers to plan how to approach contacts and creating effective business plans for making sales in a particular area.
 Micro as well as macro level strategic planning.
 Responsible for retail as well as Institutional sales.
 Arranging appointments with clients and purchase managers, which can include pre-arranged appointments.
 Making presentations to clients about product benefits and USP's in the retail as well government sector.
 Organizing conferences for clients and other potential clients.
 Building and maintaining positive working relationships with the clients.
 Keeping detailed records of all contacts, which can involve database management.
 Represented the company in major exhibitions like Arab Health and DUPHAT.

Sales Supervisor at Neopharma
  • Other
  • August 2002 to December 2010

 Assess the unit's sales staffing and skill requirements. Develop strategic plans to address short, mid and long term staffing needs within the territory
 Manage the performance of the teams, guide, coach and develop them
 Develop strategies to motivate and to retain the sales team
 Perform staff appraisals
 Implement company policies to achieve sales objective
 Ensure achievement of volume as well as value sales in line with the company targets
 Ensure proper roll-out and sustain the implementation of best practice tools of the company
 Deliver high standard marketplace execution for all the company’s initiatives through the unit team
 Report to the head of the department, all the infrastructure requirements within the unit, as per the market needs
 Analyze and report competitive activities to the head of the sales department as and when it happens.
 Monitor competitor activities and adapt to new strategies to maintain and retain existing customers
 Being pro-active to identify new areas and penetrate early
 Offer excellent services to customers with high standards of professionalism
 Ensure timely payments by customers to meet the financial goals of the company by collecting and following up for cheques
 Conduct weekly sales review meetings to track sales achievement
 Coordinated all outbound marketing efforts in launch of new products
 Coordinating with the logistics team on a regular basis to maintain optimum stock level

Education

Master's degree, Sales & Marketing
  • at Manipal University
  • April 2010

Sales Distribution and Supply Chain Management Consumer Behaviour Retail Marketing Marketing Research Services Marketing and Customer Relationship Management Advertising Management & Sales Promotion e-Marketing International Marketing

Specialties & Skills

Equipments
Computer

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Expert
Malayalam
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

Yes (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2013
Valid Until:
August 2013
Yes (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2011
Valid Until:
March 2011