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
We are looking for a customer-oriented Field Sales Representative for our Surgical Innovations Business in the South of the Netherlands. In this role, you will present and sell General Surgical Technologies products, including sutures, laparoscopic instruments, hemostatic products, and trocars, to hospitals and healthcare professionals. You will be responsible for achieving sales targets, managing tenders, and identifying new business opportunities. Strong relationship management skills, fluency in Dutch and English, and the ability to understand complex medical and scientific information are essential.
This is a challenging but rewarding position where you will define and execute your own sales strategies to drive product adoption and maximize brand presence. You will engage with key decision-makers, deliver client solutions, and ensure outstanding service. We are looking for someone with excellent communication skills and commercial experience, eager to grow in a dynamic and impactful field.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
- Achieving agreed targets focused on sales growth
- Presenting, providing in-service and selling Surgical Innovation products and services to current and potential clients
- Supporting and advising the physician on the correct use of Medtronic devices
- Preparing presentations, proposals and sales contracts
- Leading with clinical selling activities within the territory
- Identifying sales prospects and contacting these and other accounts as assigned
- Preparing action plans and scheduling to identify specific targets and to project the contacts to be made
- Following up on new leads and referrals resulting from field activity
- Interacting with purchasing managers/hospital administrators to set up and negotiate broader sales contracts
- Maintaining customer knowledge by gathering information about account activities and potential, key decision-makers, competitive participation, market share etc.
Required Knowledge and Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Demonstrated track record of sales (min 1 years’ experience)
- High motivation, enthusiastic attitude, being comfortable with change and growth
- Excellent organizational, interpersonal, persuasive communication and negotiation skills
- Fluency in Dutch and a very good level of English
- Product launch, territory planning and forecasting experience is a plus
- Experience in medical devices/ medtech or healthcare
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.
Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here
