Sales Performance

• Meet overall objectives for sales and key growth products through driving the team for demand generation within targeted accounts and territories.
• Successfully drive new product launches, service offerings and ensure execution by team members.
• Demonstrate success in key sales metrics such as growth rates, market share, key brand performance indicators and key field work performance indicators.

Leading People

• Lead colleagues in the team to meet their business objectives successfully and consistently.
• Attract, develop, evaluate, differentiate, and retain talent through recruiting / hiring, ongoing coaching, proactive / effective use of both colleague development tools and performance management.
• Spend 75% of available time with direct reports for field coaching to help them meet performance objectives by developing their core capabilities.
• Execute initiatives aligned to Poultry Business Unit’s expectations of enhancing capabilities for solution selling, business planning / resource allocation, technical knowledge, territory management and teamwork.
• Lead direct reports to develop and execute territory business planning / resource allocation, regional strategies, tactics, metrics, and objectives aligned to Poultry BU.
• Effective verbal and written communication with internal colleagues and external stakeholders.
• Provide clear leadership, direction, and communication on a day-to-day basis.
• Work with all Zoetis colleagues in a professional manner to ensure they consistently meet expectations around integrity/compliance, work-ethic, role/responsibility, conduct/attire, effective communication/informing, all administrative responsibilities, and overall teamwork.
• Ensure that the team adheres to Zoetis culture, ethics and compliance policies always.

Leading the Business

• Develop a regional plan with a focus on the business priorities and resource allocation / utilization; and then conduct monthly business reviews and revise on an ongoing basis.
• Work with other district managers to develop and share best practices across region.
• Work with technical/medical team to create and execute a focused and prioritized plan for therapy area and KOL development.
• Work closely with all distribution partners to drive sales and distribution results across your entire district.

Professional Development

• Successfully complete Individual Development Plan
• Exhibit willingness to accept and incorporate feedback.

Required Experience and Skills

• Success in previous roles including managing talent, executing designated initiatives, and creatively finding opportunities or solving problems to drive sales performance.
• Gets the best revenue retuens out of individuals, teams in assigned geography (revenue)
• Exemplifies what it means to be a change agent, continuous learner, and pushing self / others beyond dominant logic
• Ability to work in a cross-functional team-based environment, align with and influence internal and external stakeholders, and build / manage relationships at all levels of an organization.
• Adapt at working in highly fluid, complex, and ever-changing environments.
• Drives strategy and insight from analytics to tactical execution and measures the results.
• Project / process management and attention to detail.
• Financial analysis skills including the ability to manage expenses and budgets
• Good verbal, written, presentation, interpersonal, and communication skills.
• Ability to exercise good judgment and make thoughtful / fair decisions based on relevant information
• Computer skills: Working knowledge of MS Office, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Outlook, and ability to learn Zoetis systems

Minimum Qualifications

• Graduate degree (Science preferred). A master’s degree in management will be an added advantage.
• 3-5 years of related experience including sales management and people management 

Poultry market experience will be preferred.

Organizational Relationships

• The position requires the ability to call on Key Customers, Poultry Producers, Wholesalers, Poultry Consultants and other supporting influencers.
• The position also requires the ability to work with internal colleagues effectively as a team – TO, Marketing, Medical Team and Engineering Team

Technical Skills Requirements

• In-depth product and knowledge of disease including management
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Proficiency in PowerPoint, Excel, and Word applications

Physical Position Requirements

• The position will require a valid driving license ( 4 wheeler)
• Willingness to drive to customer locations across defined geography.
• Ability and willingness to travel overnight, including some weekends in case of events and exigencies

Key Skills Requirements

• The position will require a valid driving license ( 4 wheeler)
• Willingness to drive to customer locations across defined geography.

Ability and willingness to travel overnight, including some weekends in case of events and exigencies

LOCATION – Pune (West)

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