Area Manager, French Speaking Africa

With a passion for life

Join our diverse teams of passionate people and a career that allows you to develop both personally and professionally. At Getinge we exist to make life-saving technology accessible for more people. To make a true difference for our customers – and to save more lives, we need team players, forward thinkers, and game changers.

Are you looking for an inspiring career? You just found it.

To perform this job successfully, you must be able to perform each essential duty below.

• Develops and manages implementation of business strategy that will help in achieve short term and long-term business objectives.
• Participate as a member of the senior management team, providing support in the design and development of programs and processes to the benefit of the company.
• Manages, motivates and directs job responsibilities of immediate reports and allocate work accordingly.
• Build good contacts with key accounts.
• Directs staff in the development, analysis, and preparation of reports in a timely fashion.
• Manages day-to-day operational issues and problems.
• Implements sales’ plans to achieve sales objectives.
• Ensures sales targets are met through proper planning, forecasting and monitoring.
• Recommends sales policies and procedures to further improve & motivate sales personnel and to further enhance company objectives of maximizing sales and minimizing costs.
• Ensures business operations are fully compliant with the GG Code of Conduct          

Qualification (Knowledge, Skills and Abilities):

• Master’s degree in Management, Engineering, Medical
• Minimum 10 years related experience in sales’ company management position
• Previous background and experience in medical devices sector
• Experience in managing large sales’ projects
• Strong knowledge and experience in public tenders’ procedures
• Fluent English and French language proficiency is a must
• Leadership skills – strong communication and leading by example
• Interest in developing employees
• Committed to reaching set goals
• High level of integrity
• Creative with strong implementation skills
• Open and curious to learn

About us 

With a firm belief that every person and community should have access to the best possible care, Getinge provides hospitals and life science institutions with products and solutions aiming to improve clinical results and optimize workflows. The offering includes products and solutions for intensive care, cardiovascular procedures, operating rooms, sterile reprocessing and life science. Getinge employs over 12,000 people worldwide and the products are sold in more than 135 countries.  

Reasonable accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.