About the Company: Multicare is a well-established Pharmaceutical Company with diversified scope in both manufacturing and marketing of pharmaceutical products, supplements, cosmetics and medical devices. Multicare has 15 years of prominent existence in the local market and has almost 35 products marketed and more to come through the pipelines. Multicare Egypt for Pharmaceutical Industries is the manufacturing facility of Pharmacare for Trading Agency, which located at the Industrial Zone – New Cairo and its HQ at Maadi. We are one of the fast growing Pharmaceutical Companies in the market which has strong ambition and aspiration to be one of the key players not only in Egypt but also within the region.

Our international alliances are effective in different countries, including Saudi Arabia, United Arab of Emirates, India and New Zealand with future aspiration to extend more business associations and affiliations in near future to further markets.

At Multicare for Pharmaceutical Industries our belief is people are the most valuable and important asset we have and they make and will continue to make the difference through their professionalism, expertise and capabilities.

Multicare pipelines expected to provide the Commercial Team with new products early next year, for which we are hiring a professional caliber to join as Group Product Manager based at the company’s HQ in Maadi-Cairo. Successful candidate will be reporting to the designated Business Unit Head.

• Job Purpose :

Set strategies, directions and follow execution of plans at both short and long-term basis for different businesses both blue and/or red ocean

Designation: Group Product Manager Therapy Area: New Business Location: Maadi HQ Job Grade: E3

Reporting: Business Unit Manager

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Business Knowledge:
• Maintain/Develop professional through understanding of dynamics at both Macro and Micro-environment level
• Lead a process of sharpening Sales Force DPK on a regular and timely manner
• Keep sight on market audits and proactively advise the way forward
• Ensure Resources Optimization for both Sales and Marketing
• Recommend the nature and scope of present and future product lines by reviewing product specifications and requirements; appraising new product ideas and/or product or packaging changes
• Act as a hub for Business Development Initiatives for products of responsibilities
• Gather/consolidate Market intelligence and up to date competitive landscape towards a meaningful actions
• Provide information for management by preparing short-term and long-term product sales forecasts and special reports and analyses; answering questions and requests
• Take the lead and full charge of new Product Launches full fledged
• Basic understanding of key Market Research principles
• Strategy Development/Implementation:
• Set long and short-term plans simultaneously and complimentary to ensure commercial objectives are met if not exceeded
• Develop and validate a differentiated Positioning that is sustainable and competitive. Translate this to relevant and compelling Customer Propositions
• Ensure the products continue to be relevant and competitive, maximizing the asset throughout effective lifecycle management
• Engage appropriately with internal and external partners, e.g. salesforce, physicians, payers and patient groups to develop and systematically execute integrated activities that have a clear line of sight to the Strategies
• Lead campaign development and launching in coordination with junior Product Managers
• Determine customers’ needs and desires by specifying the research needed to obtain market information
• Provide source data for product line communications by defining product marketing communication objectives
• Discover insight and foresight using multiple sources (e.g. direct customer and patient contact, sales representative feedback, and market research) to gain a deeper understanding of patients, prescribers and payers within a competitive context
• Obtain/Analyze products market share by working with BUM to develop product sales strategies
• External Experts Management:
• Develop a long win-win partnership with KOL and decisions makers
• Identify relevant External Experts who are critical to the Knowledge Cascade
• Plan, collaborate and partner appropriately with these External Experts to advance scientific thinking and to inform decisions that evolve treatment practice and improve patient outcomes, in line with the Strategies
• Opportunity and Growth Planning:
• Conduct analysis to identify the priority opportunities within a portfolio or for a brand
• Set an ambition, and creates and evaluates alternative strategies to maximize return
• Thinks through how to effectively launch or grow an asset or category
• Analyze CRM, identify gaps and devise mechanisms to rectify against agreed strategy of the assigned product mix

Qualification/Knowledge/Experience

• Level of education: Life Science Degree (Pharmacy, Veterinary or Science), post graduate marketing qualification is a definite plus
• Experience : Previous experience of Pharmaceutical managing team or portfolio for 2-3 years is mandated
• Language : Fluent English proficiency is mandated
• IT Literacy : Professional knowledge of MS-Office
• Competencies and Behaviors:
• Excellent facilitation skills
• Strong informative leadership
• Professional analytical thinking and problem solving ability
• Ability to influence, persuade and convince
• Drive for results; the drive to put energy into achieving results and take actions to exceed goals
• Striving for continuous improvement
• Customer service: anticipate the needs and expectations of customers
• Able to cope with stress and change
• – Impact and influence: the ability to convince, persuade others to a point of view
• Teamwork and co-operation: the willingness to work co-operatively and supportively with your colleagues. Developing positive, open working relationships in order to solve problems and to achieve business goals

Benefits:

• For the selected candidates, we offer a superb working environment and a challenging atmosphere.
• You can also look forward to a competitive salary and benefits package with room for talents and potential candidates to sharpen and advance their career forward supported by exposure, learning and development opportunities.