The role of a medical representative is to liaise between pharmaceutical and healthcare companies and healthcare professionals providing advice, promoting product awareness, offering counselling etc,
Key responsibilities include:
- Writing reports
- Managing budgets
- Organising meetings with healthcare staff
- Maintaining detailed records
- Negotiating contracts
- Demonstrating products to healthcare staff
Medical Representatives need qualifications in science and medical information, it is better still if the candidate has a bachelor's degree. Better still would be a graduate degree in related science such as biology or chemistry.
Is is very important for a medical representative to communicate and relate well to people. They must also be trustworthy and gain the confidence of medical professionals.
Salary would be around £45,000 but that varies depending on employer and qualifications.
