Field Sales Representative Consumer Healthcare

About the job

As the sales representative, you will sell our consumer healthcare brands in pharmacy and drugstores across Belgium. The opportunity will build business relationships with our customers, developing and negotiating plans which create a win-win for our shoppers, our customers and our company.  As Sales Representative you will be in charge of maintaining and expanding a partnership with your key customers by continuously proposing solutions and plans that meet their objectives, you will develop a deep understanding of the product categories. This role will be a mix of achieving net sales and distribution targets, detailing of pharmacy staff and negotiate the best visibility on shelf.

At Sanofi Consumer Healthcare, we build trusted and loved brands that connect with hundreds of millions of consumers worldwide. Our mission is to enable better self-care for individuals and communities, while also contributing to a healthier planet. We strive to act as a force for good by integrating sustainability along our business and employees’ mission and operate responsibly from both a social and environmental point of view; to achieve this, we need people who develops the future of our business and help us on our journey to becoming the best fast-moving consumer healthcare company in and for the world.

Main responsibilities

• Drive territory sales performance to meet net sales and sell out targets  

• Ensure that all distribution KPI’s are met with strategic objectives

• Maximize in store visibility in line with cycle priorities

• Implementation of shopper materials to be best in class in instore execution

• Gain recommendation by detailing of pharmacy staff

• Execution of territory journey plan defined by potential and frequency

About you

• Experience: Experience in Consumer healthcare business or FMCG companies is a plus

• Soft Skills: Embrace a hands-on mentality by showing a proactive attitude, persuasiveness & entrepreneurial spirit to be a game changer, being assertive

• Commercial Skills: Proficient in negotiation tactics, adept at seizing opportunities and skilled in account management to service excellence

• Education: Bachelor’s / Master degree

• Languages: Excellent communication and presentation skills (written and spoken) in Dutch, good knowledge of French and English are a plus

• Living in region East Flanders

Why choose us?

• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career

• Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact

• Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks’ gender-neutral parental leave

Opella, the Consumer Healthcare business unit of Sanofi, is the purest and third-largest player globally in the Over-The-Counter (OTC) & Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements (VMS) market.  

We have an unshakable belief in the power of self-care and the role it can play in creating a healthier society and a healthier planet.

That’s why we want to make self-care as simple as it should be by being consumer-led always, with science at our core. 

Through our unique and balanced portfolio of more than 100 loved brands, including 15 global and local high-growth challengers such as Allegra, Dulcolax and Buscopan, we deliver our mission: helping more than half a billion consumers worldwide take their health in their hands.  

This mission is brought to life by an 11,000-strong team, 13 best-in-class manufacturing sites, and 4 specialized science and innovation development centers. 

We are also proud to be the first major fast-moving consumer healthcare company to achieve B Corp certification. 

Join us on our mission. Health. In your hands.