Do you want to become a medical device sales representative? Do you think you have what it takes to compete with the best in the business? Bishop Executive Services can help you to achieve this goal.
This short presentation can help you to determine if you should enter this field, and if this helps to define your goals, let Bishop find that opportunity for you.
2. 1) Self-Fulfillment
2) Excellent Income
3) Recession Proof
4) Learn something new every day
5) Peer Recognition – everything is ranked
within a company – daily results - EGO
3. Observed and sold Medical Devices in over
3500 Surgical Procedures
Attended and help facilitate 12 National
Sales Training Programs – 2 weeks for each
Managed Medical Device Reps with hiring
and firing responsibility
Involved with placing over 500 Sales Reps
and Managers in the Medical Sales Arena
Previewed over 40,000 Resumes
4. 1) Medical Sales Options -$ differences and
day to day stuff…
Pharmaceutical Sales
Medical Device Sales
2) Background needed to get into Medical
Sales
3) Typical Interview Process
4) Other
5. 1) Primary Care – GP’s / IM in a POD
Environment – need 2+ yrs of B2B
Sales
2) Specialty – Urology / GI etc.
sometimes in a POD Environment – need 2-
4 years of B2B Sales and 2-4 years of PC
Sales
3) Biotech – Oncology / Alzheimer's
no PODs – need 5+ years of Specialty
Sales
6.
7. 1)Primary Care - $55K to $80K
Base - $40K to $60K
Bonus - $15K to $20K
2)Specialty – $90K to $130K
Base - $70K to $100k
Bonus - $20K to $30k
3)Biotech – $120K to $180K
Base - $100K to $130K
Bonus - $20K to $50K
8. Hospital Based – Sell Capital Equipment
or Disposables to the Hospital System
(non-O.R.) and Offices – 5+ years of B2B or
limited Pharm Exp
Gowns – Gloves – Beds – Stretchers etc…
$100K to $130K Compensation
$50K to $60K Base
$50K to $70K Bonus
9. Operating Room Based – Sell Capital
Equipment and/or Disposables during
surgery
7+ years of B2B and/or B2B Mgt Pharm
and/or Med Device
Surgical Staplers / Implants / Heart Valves
$140K to $500K Compensation
$40K to $100K Base
$100K to $400K Bonus
10. Excellent High School background – athletics/government/part-time
work etc.
4 Year Degree – 99% of the time / Master’s not necessary yet good
for movement into upper mgt
Exceptional Extra-Curricular Activities other than going to class i.e.
Athletics / Clubs / Government / Greek / Volunteer
Good GPA – Usually 3.0 or higher but not an absolute
Very limited movement out of college – no job hopping – have a job
waiting for you when you graduate
Exceptional Business to Business (B2B) Sales
Training/Experience/Accomplishments
Fortune 500 companies such as ADP / Pitney Bowes / IKON Office /
Ricoh / Lanier / Gallo / IBM / Xerox etc…
11. Initial Phone Screen – 30 - 45 minutes
Initial Face to Face – 1 Hour Topline conversation – “Tell
me what you have done in your career?” “Walk me from
High School to Present Day”
2nd Interview – 2-3 Hours – In Depth Dialogue “Tell me how
you accomplished what you have done”
Field Ride – ½ to a Full Day shadowing a Rep / asking
questions to the customers / taking notes – interacting
Final Interview - 1 hour to 3 hours
Not a lock if you go to a final
12. PISTL
P = Presence / you can be 5’ Tall and have tremendous
presence and be 6’ 6’’ and have no presence
I = Intelligence / Can you absorb – learn – master the
clinical terminology well enough to carry on a detailed
conversation with a physician?
S = Sales
Sales Training – Formalized i.e. SPIN Selling
Sales Accomplishments – Rankings – Accolades – Awards
T = Thought Process – why did you pick the college you did?
Courses to take? How did you land your first job?
L = Leadership – can you take on additional
responsibilities down the road? Can you show how you
acted like a leader in High School / College / First Job?
13. Sign up for www.linkedin.com – it’s like Facebook
for Professionals
Reminder on solid Fortune 500 B2B companies
such as ADP / Pitney Bowes / IKON Office / Ricoh /
Lanier / Gallo / IBM / Coca Cola / Pepsi / Xerox
etc…
Buy the book – “SPIN Selling” by Neil Rackham
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