Posted 4 days ago

Medical Surgical Sales Representative

SAD Medtronic Limited South Africa South Africa, ZAF-GT Johannesburg
Onsite Full Time

Job description

Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact. A Day in the Life Do you want to be part of a winning team within a growing and dynamic business? Are you looking for an exciting new challenge across the Medtronic Medical Surgical portfolio? This might be the opportunity you were looking for! We offer you a position where you will support and develop selected accounts in a sales territory covering hospitals around Johannesburg, promoting Medical Surgical solutions across complex procedures including bariatric, colorectal, advanced energy, and hysteroscopic tissue removal procedures. This role requires a motivated sales professional who can build strong customer relationships, support account growth, and provide procedure support when needed, ensuring customers receive consistent clinical, product, and workflow support across the territory. This role reports directly to the Sales Manager. Regular travel is expected across the Johannesburg hospital territory.

Responsibilities

may include the following and other duties may be assigned: Promote and sell Medtronic Medical Surgical solutions across hospitals within the Johannesburg territory to meet or exceed sales targets Provide direct in-theatre support during Medical Surgical procedures when required, offering product, technical, and workflow guidance to clinical teams in complex cases such as bariatric, colorectal, advanced energy, and hysteroscopic tissue removal procedures Take ownership for procedure support within the territory when needed, while working closely with relevant clinical and technical support teams to coordinate coverage and drive adoption of Medical Surgical solutions, including capital equipment such as electrosurgical generator systems, smoke evacuation platforms, energy-based surgical systems, and hysteroscopic tissue removal systems Develop and grow strategic relationships with surgeons, theatre staff, hospital decision makers, and procurement stakeholders to expand access, support account plans, and drive sustainable territory growth Deliver product education, clinical in-servicing, and solution-based presentations to customers; support evaluations, conversions, and the implementation of Medical Surgical technologies within assigned accounts Collaborate closely with Sales Representative colleagues selling other products within the Medtronic Medical Surgical portfolio in the same accounts, aligning priorities and opportunity plans to maximize growth Maintain accurate product forecasts and standard sales projections based on sales opportunities, customer trends, market share data, territory plans, pipeline activity, and customer engagement records in SFDC (or the agreed CRM), while monitoring market trends and competitor activity to identify growth opportunities Required Knowledge and

Experience

Bachelor’s degree (Life Sciences, Nursing, Biomedical Engineering, or related field) or equivalent combination of education and experience Relevant sales and/or clinical support experience in medical devices at Sales Rep II level, preferably within Medical Surgical sales or procedure support across areas such as bariatric, colorectal, advanced energy, and hysteroscopic tissue removal. Exposure to capital equipment is desirable, including electrosurgical generator systems, smoke evacuation platforms, energy-based surgical systems, hysteroscopic tissue removal systems, and other Medical Surgical capital technologies. Professional fluency in the required local language(s) and English, in writing and speech Strong stakeholder management, relationship building, and communication skills; able to influence multiple decision makers Team player with strong negotiation skills; able to work cross-functionally with sales reps and capital partners Ability to work independently, manage territory priorities, and travel regularly Full clean driver’s license (as required for the territory) We value clinical and/or technical background but also experience in the OR environment. Physical

Job Requirements

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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. 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. We change lives. Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives. We build extraordinary solutions as one team. With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough. This life-changing career is yours to engineer. By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will… Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning These commitments set our team apart from the rest: Experiences that put people first. Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need. Life-transforming technologies. No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms. Better outcomes for our world. Here, it’s about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls. Insight-driven care. Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. For sales reps and other patient facing field employees, going into a healthcare setting is considered an essential function of the job and we expect our employees to comply with all credentialing requirements at the hospitals or clinics they support. This employer participates in the federal E-Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees. For further information about the E-Verify program, please click here. For updates on job applications, please go to the candidate login page and sign in to check your application status. If you need assistance completing your application please email AskHR@medtronic.com To request removal of your personal information from our systems please email RS.HRCompliance@medtronic.com

Skills and functions

  • Customer Support
  • Sales