Scientific sales executive

Job title: Scientific Sales Executive

Location: Vijayawada

About the job

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 analyse 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: freshers / Prior experience in pharma sales is preferred

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

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

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

· Languages: English

Why choose us?

   Help shape the future of care for chronic and complex conditions like a T1D, Type 2 diabetes, transplant, and cardiovascular disease.

· Drive meaningful impact at global scale: our medicines reach more than 100 million people each year.

· Be part of a simpler, digital- and AI-powered business that’s rethinking how we work and engage with the world.

· Turn bold ideas into breakthrough launches, with multiple new therapies planned through 2030 and beyond.

· Stretch your career in a development playground, with opportunities across functions, regions, and the entire product lifecycle.

· Work in a place that combines global scale with local expertise, backed by a strong culture of collaboration and shared purpose.

· Contribute to innovations that improve outcomes, relieve pressure on healthcare systems, and expand access worldwide.

· Join a team that’s not just transforming treatment - but asking what’s next, and making it real.

· Join a workplace where diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core, with Employee Resource Groups and leadership programs that celebrate every voice.

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!