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Sales Team Leader (North Central Poland)

Merck logoMerckPOL - Poland - PolandFull-timeListed 1w ago

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Job Description

Our Sales Team Leader inspires, supports and leads group of colleagues interacting face to face with our customers. She/he strives to understand the customers’ needs and coordinates omnichannel efforts across defined geo area to support and grow our customer centric business model. The Sales Team Leader is based in the field within his/her defined territory and reports to the relevant Franchise Lead.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to

  • Leading the sales team in a respective territory
  • Fostering psychologically safe environment whilst not compromising on performance
  • Orchestrating omnichannel effort across entire territory in close cooperation with Marketing and Medical functions
  • Ensuring marketing strategy is going properly implemented across all supervised territories
  • Developing and implementing territory activity plans to ensure achieving goals, regularly revising activities against achievement and market conditions
  • Building and maintaining effective working relationships with local OLs
  • Contributing to marketing and planning processes
  • Ensuring the team activities are properly tracked in the CRM system to inform marketing strategies and tactics.
  • Regularly analyzing CRM data to support omnichannel planning, liaising with the Digital team to ensure data-driven decision making
  • Maintaining top level of product knowledge and ensure the supervised team does so, as well as a broader understanding of market.
  • Ensuring effective communication across sales, marketing and all other relevant teams
  • Ensure highest level of integrity in the territory

Skills and competences required

  • Proven track record in a sales leadership role
  • Strong but humble leadership
  • Integrity
  • Strategic thinking
  • Ability to build long term business relationships
  • High level of flexibility and resilience
  • Negotiation and influencing skills
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills.
  • Ability to work well with others, demonstrated collaboration skills and inclusive behaviors.
  • Communicative level of English - must understand and be able to express him/herself verbally and in writing
  • Top IT and MS Office literacy (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Required Skills

Collaborative Leadership, Customer Engagement, Direct Marketing, Enterprise Solutions Sales, Financial Analysis, Goal Setting, Interpersonal Relationships, Operational Efficiency, People Leadership, People Management, Pricing Processes, Prioritization, Product Launch Planning, Product Management, Relationship Building, Relationship Management, Sales Data, Sales Leadership, Sales Management, Short Term Planning, Supervisory Management, Team Collaboration, Territory Management, Transfer Pricing Documentation

Preferred Skills

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Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails.

Employee Status

Regular

Flexible Work Arrangements

Hybrid

Job Posting End Date

11/7/2026

Taken from Merck's own posting, last seen live on 3 Nov 2026.

About Merck

Prescription medicines and vaccines for oncologists, clinics and health systems, plus animal health products sold to veterinary clinics, livestock producers and distribution partners.

Pay schedule: Merck employment on a base salary, with an annual bonus and long-term incentive where the role qualifies and a 401(k) in its US benefits.

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