Personalising Your Pitch in Medical Sales Jobs

By: Paramount Recruitment

It is important for medical sales professionals to make their products and services seem personalised for each customer. Every consumer has encountered the indecipherable language on a bottle of prescription pills and other medical supplies. A medical sales professional needs to act as a translator between the client and the product in order to increase sales. You can eliminate the mystery involved in medical sales in a few simple steps beginning with your first sale.

A collection of anecdotes, testimonials and other materials highlighting the real effects of your supplies can help comfort potential customers. You should take notes during each sales call and contact past clients to conduct your own research on the realities of your company's products. A single testimonial given to a sceptical client may not lead to a sale. A mountain of stories, data and other evidence to the success of your product can set your sales pitch apart from the competition.

Your sales pitch needs to kindly point out the difference between your supplies and competing products. An aggressive sales person who criticises competing companies without highlighting the virtues of his employer will turn off clients. You should create a one-page document with the raw data that differentiates your product from others. It is important to couch your sales pitch in positive language so most medical sales people need to avoid speaking about competitors when possible.

Successful professionals in medical sales jobs need to gather a history for each client to formulate an effective sales pitch. Corporate clients and individuals looking for medical supplies will be willing to provide general sketches of past medical conditions to sales people. A chronological sketch of each client allows you to formulate your sales pitch for a future call without resorting to clinical language.

An ability to transfer from clinical to regular language and back is necessary in medical sales jobs. You need to take chemical names, pharmaceutical jargon and data on product packaging and convert it into colloquial language for clients. This skill is difficult for young medical sales professionals who have great communications skills without proper scientific grounding. It is important to devote a part of each work day reviewing industry publications as well as in-house reports to become conversant in clinical language. This fluency in pharmaceutical jargon makes it possible to switch to different levels of sales language throughout your day.

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