Scientific Sales Executive

Job title: Scientific Sales Executive

• Job type: Permanent

• Location : Kolkata 

About the job

Our Team:

The Scientific Sales Executive is responsible for promoting pharmaceutical products to healthcare professionals (HCPs), building and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders, and contributing to the company's sales targets and market share growth

About Sanofi:

We’re an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people’s lives and delivering compelling growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system – and innovative pipeline – enables us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world. Together, we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.

Main responsibilities:

• Sales and Business Development

• Develop and execute territory business plans to achieve sales targets

• Conduct face-to-face meetings with healthcare professionals to promote Sanofi products

• Track and analyze sales performance metrics and market trends

• Identify new business opportunities within assigned territory

• Customer Relationship Management

• Build and maintain strong relationships with healthcare professionals and key decision-makers

• Record customer interactions and insights in CRM system

• Respond to customer inquiries and provide product information

• Collaborate with Key Account Managers on strategic accounts

• Product Knowledge and Communication

• Maintain in-depth knowledge of Sanofi products, therapeutic areas, and competitive landscape

• Deliver clear, compliant, and effective product presentations to healthcare professionals

• Adhere strictly to compliance guidelines regarding promotional activities

• Stay informed about industry trends, healthcare policies, and market dynamics

• Compliance and Ethics

• Ensure all activities comply with Sanofi policies, industry regulations, and local laws

• Maintain accurate records of all promotional activities and expenses

• Follow proper protocols for reporting adverse events

• Understand boundaries between promotional and scientific engagement activities

• Collaboration

• Work closely with medical teams when HCPs request specific medical information

• Coordinate with marketing, medical affairs, and other internal stakeholders

• Participate in sales meetings, training sessions, and company events

• Share market insights and customer feedback with relevant internal teams

About you

·       Experience: 2-3 years of sales experience

·       Soft skills: Communication/presentation skills/ Selling and negotiation skills.

·       Technical skills: Product knowledge/Market Knowledge/Business Policy Knowledge

·       Education: B. Sc. Or Preferably B.Pharma

Languages: English     

Pursue Progress. Discover Extraordinary.

Join Sanofi and step into a new era of science - where your growth can be just as transformative as the work we do. We invest in you to reach further, think faster, and do what’s never-been-done-before. You’ll help push boundaries, challenge convention, and build smarter solutions that reach the communities we serve. Ready to chase the miracles of science and improve people’s lives? Let’s Pursue Progress and Discover Extraordinary – together.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. 

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, ability or gender identity.

Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!