Shalina Healthcare is a market leader in making quality healthcare products affordable and available across Africa. We achieve this by sourcing from WHO-approved production facilities in India and China and by focusing on our first-class distribution expertise. Shalina Healthcare is privately owned and part of the Shalina Group. We have been operating in Africa for more than thirty years. The Shalina Group is headquartered in Dubai and we have operating offices in Nigeria, Zambia, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, Ghana, Republic of South Sudan, Kenya, Cameroon, Central African Republic, India and China. We employ over one thousand people worldwide. Shalina Group’s second business vertical is Shalina Resources, a minerals company located in Southern DRC. Shalina Healthcare is a market leader and we offer a wide basket of more than two hundred and fifty products. We participate in both the prescription and over-the-counter categories in a broad range of therapeutic groups, including anti-malarials, antibiotics, anti-inflammatory and nutrition. Our range includes both generic and branded generic products. Shalina Healthcare also offers a range of consumer products in the hygiene segment, most notable with our brand Germol. Our reputation as reliable manufacturers and distributors of healthcare products is reinforced every time we launch a new product into the market. It may be the first time the drug has been launched in the remote regions that we serve and we support this with regular continuing medical education campaigns for the doctors and nurses. Over the last thirty years, Shalina’s reputation as a quality healthcare provider in Africa has been well accepted by the medical community, who has no hesitation in prescribing Shalina products to their patients. We work closely with the local communities to help people live longer and healthier lives. None of this would be possible without the immense contribution of our dedicated employees.
- Job Type: Full Time
- Qualification: BA/BSc/HND , MBA/MSc/MA
- Experience: 12 – 15 years
- Location: Lagos
- Job Field: Sales / Marketing / Retail / Business Development
What you become a part of:
- The successful candidate will develop and lead brands/ product marketing programs globally for SHL’s OTx products with a view to drive field implementation and realize revenue targets, augment market for assigned brands/ portfolio.
What to expect:
- Contribute to AOP process by creating brand plans in-line with the overall marketing strategy and business performance targets.
- Ideate and implement creative promotional campaigns to boost brand/ portfolio performance.
- Oversee implementation, marketing support and track performance against plan for assigned brands/ portfolio globally by influencing relevant stakeholders.
- Support the identification of new products for the relevant therapy area and own the launch of assigned new products against defined measures of success.
- Collate, analyze and report markets insights for assigned brand/ products to stakeholders.
- Monitor consumer/ customer/ market needs, competition and performance for assigned brands/ portfolio to proactively enable appropriate support from country marketing teams.
- Design and supervise product training programs conducted regionally for field force to improve field force effectiveness for assigned brands.
- Lead vendor management activities such as managing existing relationships, identifying new vendors, assess bids, negotiations, etc. for marketing campaigns.
- Generate insights based on primary/ secondary sales data to present monthly dashboard reports to stakeholders.
- Collaborate with other functions such as medical affairs, supply chain, finance, regulatory etc. as needed to create synergy.
Essential qualifications, experience and skills:
- Bachelor’s degree specializing in Pharmacy/ Life Sciences and Master’s degree in Marketing.
- 12- 15 years’ experience within a multi-country, matrix pharmaceutical company, ideally within the OTx environment.
- Ability to succeed in a high impact & influence individual contributor role.
- Excellent consulting and communication skills, with the ability to influence customers and internal stakeholders.
- Strong personal credibility and interpersonal skills with the ability to build trusted relationships with senior business leaders and teams alike.
- Strong collaboration skills to partner with functional teams, agency partners and business teams.
- Experience of working cross-culturally with diverse colleagues in a complex multi-country, matrix environment is preferred.