Sales Representative

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

**A Day in the Life**:Would you like to work for a rapidly growing international healthcare company? We are looking for a Sales Representative in the North region of Portugal to join the Structural Heart (SH) Operating Unit Be a part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.
Join Medtronic where we appreciate your talent, experience, and passion for your work. You can count on professional and personal development, exciting challenges, and a dynamic environment.

This is an exciting opportunity where, as a Sales Representative SH you will provide to our customers the last innovation related to Structural Heart devices and help the Physicians in the TAVI and TPV (Transcatheter pulmonary valve) procedures, as well as the rest of non-clinical stakeholders in the purchase processes. You will also collect market intelligence data, follow, and report competition activities.
For this remote position, the working territory is North of Portugal, and you will be preferably located in Porto or Coimbra.

**Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned**:

- Provide technical support to physicians in the operating room and cath labs in the hospitals during the TAVI and other Structural Heart procedures
- Promote and sell Medtronic's products and services within the assigned geographic area and/or specific customer accounts to meet or exceed sales targets
- Advise referring physicians on company products, therapies, and services to optimize patient outcomes. While educate them on clinical evidence of defined therapies to demonstrate improved patient outcomes
- Build strong and lasting relationships with key decision makers
- Pursue leads, assess needs, and provide product services to maximize the benefits derived from Medtronic's products and/or services
- Implement market development plans/strategies and changes as needed

**Required Knowledge and Experience**:

- University degree in life-science, engineering (biomedical engineering, electrical, IT, natural sciences), cardiopneumology or other relevant degree
- Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in a sales role in healthcare/medical (device) industry, but it’s not a limitation
- Fluent in English and Portuguese (reading, conversation, and writing)
- Computer literacy is a must
- Clean driver’s license; willingness to travel intensively (approx. 25%)
- Willingness to work with physicians, nurses, and hospital technicians
- Willingness to provide expert technical support in the operating room in the hospitals
- Communication skills and motivation to build strong business relationship with customers
- Teamwork, proactivity and focus on delivering results.

Experience in cath lab procedures or Structural Heart therapies will be well valued, ability to manage multiple tasks with high degree of organization-prioritization skill, self-motivated and able to work with a minimum of supervision and motivation to learn will be a must.

**Physical Job Requirements**

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.

**Benefits & Compensation**:
**Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package**
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

**About Medtronic**:
We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people.
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.