Sales Representative (Pharmaceuticals) Career Path in 2024

Sales Representative (Pharmaceuticals) Career Overview

Job Description:
  • Sell goods for wholesalers or manufacturers to businesses or groups of individuals.
  • Work requires substantial knowledge of items sold.

Sales Representative (Pharmaceuticals) U.S. Salary in 2024

Annual Median Salary: $63,230
Hourly Median Wage: $30.4

Data sourced from O*NET Online, provided by the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics wage estimates.

Projected Job Openings for Sales Representative (Pharmaceuticals)s by 2031

Projected Growth Rate in Job Openings by 2031: 4%

Data sourced from CareerOneStop, provided by the U.S. Department of Labor.

Typical Tasks for Sales Representative (Pharmaceuticals)s

  • Answer customers' questions about products, prices, availability, product uses, and credit terms.

  • Estimate or quote prices, credit or contract terms, warranties, and delivery dates.

  • Recommend products to customers, based on customers' needs and interests.

Technologies and Skills Used by Sales Representative (Pharmaceuticals)s

Customer relationship management CRM software

  • Oracle Eloqua
  • Salesforce software

Data base user interface and query software

  • Blackboard software
  • Yardi software

Enterprise resource planning ERP software

  • Microsoft Dynamics
  • Oracle PeopleSoft

Basic Skills

  • Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
  • Talking to others

Problem Solving

  • Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it

Social

  • Bringing people together to solve differences
  • Talking people into changing their minds or their behavior

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