Job Description

Role

Zoetis is looking for an Account Manager Companion Animals Central Netherlands region, including Amsterdam.

The person in role will develop mutually beneficial and productive long-term partnerships with our customers and will maintain these relationships with the appropriate quantity & quality of activity.

The field-based Account Manager acts as the first contact for designated customers (veterinarians, veterinary practices, clinics, …). They provide high quality information & technical advice on the companion animals product portfolio via physical visits, phone or digital activities.

This role contributes to the overall success of Zoetis by delivering to the sales growth & market share gain targets for the designated product lines.

Core responsibilities

Planning

• Maintain high level of expertise with the evolving portfolio of products, services, pricing, competition, market and industry trends
• Develop and maintain account plans in collaboration with the Area Businesss Manager, Commercial Operations, ...
• Ensure customer information and call reports are continuously updated through CRM system

• Align activities and account plans to marketing programmes and management direction in line with the Solution Selling model
• Analyse and interpret actual and potential sales and growth opportunities to support delivery of sales targets

Relationships

• Develop mutually beneficial and productive long-term partnerships with our customers based on high quality account plans
• Implement bespoke customer solutions utilising all available resources including products, value add services, Veterinarians and Business Consultants

• Contribute to the success of the team by sharing best practices with colleagues and proactively contributing ideas.

Call activity

• Deliver visit activity in accordance with agreed KPIs to achieve the required coverage and frequency with identified target customers
• Ensure clear and specific objectives exist for each individual visit.
• Deliver relevant marketing messages, product information and programmes consistent with management direction in line with Solution Selling model
• Proactively identify customer opportunities and capitalize on them.
• Co-ordinate with colleagues in order to achieve positive changes to the customers understanding and use of our portfolio of products, services and pricing.
• Accurately record call/visit activity in the CRM system, in line with company guidance.
• Ensure clear and timely follow up plan is in place and actioned.

Compliance

• Maintain high standards of business conduct and compliance, adhering particularly to Pharmacovigilance Policy, Global vet Policy, Zoetis values, travel & expenses policy and local codes of practice
• Maintain accurate business records including CRM and communicate effectively with the Area Business Manager and other stakeholders
• Manage allocated customer support budget with tight control to avoid overspends
• Responsible for collecting, recording and reporting of post-marketing animal health adverse events (pharmacovigilance, related to a Zoetis product) in a timely manner.

Key Skills

• Strong sales ability
• Strong communication & influencing skills
• Builds successful and effective relationships
• Able to retain and recall product information to a detailed level
• A strong focus on planning, and a balance of tactical planning with day to day operational requirements
• Ability to work independently
• Drive and resilience, demonstrated with a persistent, never give up attitude
• Confidence, likability and an authoritative personality
• Stakeholder management – effective at using stakeholders as resources

Behaviors

Our Colleagues make the difference

• Keep your selling skills sharp. Train, and retrain
• Be an expert on your solutions – know them inside and out, and continue to learn
• Use the experience from setbacks and failure to drive your future success

Always do the right thing

• Sell what you know your customers need; what you know will work for them
• Help build the reputation of our brand by understanding and supporting the things that we stand for

Customer obsessed

• Know your vets, know your farmers. Know more than just their names, know their business
• Establish effective and lasting relationships with customers that build loyalty to our brand

Run it like you own it

• Ground all account plans in commercially sound thinking
• Deliver on your commitments to customers and colleagues. Do what you say you’ll do – and quicker and better

We are one Zoetis

• Give the team timely information and support that helps them to deliver their role
• Know what’s going on around the business and talk about it to your customers
• Communicate across roles, across regions, across species

Training & Qualifications

• Fluent in Dutch; good knowledge of English; knowledge of French
• IT literate. Able to use standard business software and communication tools.

Experience

As either a;

• field sales representative
• employee in the animal health industry or a related industry
• employee in a customer facing role

Travel requirements

Occasional travel (for meetings) within the region Belgium & the Netherlands and EU.

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