Regional Sales Manager, South Region

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MSD seeks a Regional Sales Manager for the South Region to lead a sales team in the Companion Animal business, driving growth for a global Animal Health leader. Based in Sydney, NSW or Melbourne, VIC, you will manage an agile team, implement territory planning, conduct performance reviews, coach for selling excellence, and develop relationships with veterinary wholesalers and retailers while ensuring pricing policy compliance. Requirements include a business degree, sales leadership experience, strong communication and CRM skills, and the ability to work independently. You can expect a competitive salary, a strong culture, flexible options, and clear career progression. To apply, tailor your resume to show leadership and market impact using the links for current employees or contingent workers.

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Job Description

Regional Sales Manager, South Region

• Exciting Permanent full-time for a Regional Sales Manager - Companion Animal

• Ideal candidate must be based in either Sydney, NSW or Melbourne, VIC

• Join an innovative and evolving Global Animal Health organisation

• Manage and support an agile and passionate regional Sales team

• Highly Competitive salary and benefits, alongside tools of trade

The primary responsibility of the Regional Sales Manager is to lead and develop a designated regional sales team to achieve identified business outcomes, and sales performance. The Regional Sales Manager is responsible for supporting strategies developed at a national business unit level that promote growth within the Companion Animal Business Unit with key veterinary and retail customers.

The Regional Sales Manager sits within the Animal Health Sales organisation and reports to the National Sales & Key Accounts Lead ANZ, Companion Animal.

What You Will Do

Responsibilities include, however not limited to:

Sales Team Leadership

• Lead the activities of a regional sales team to deliver on identified individual and business priorities.

• Conduct regular performance reviews, leading the giving and receiving of feedback to achieve best performance outcomes.

• Implement team territory planning processes, including segmentation and best practice implementation of marketing campaigns.

• Develop and regularly review territory account and geographical responsibilities of each team member.

• Collaborate with the National Business Unit and Commercial Effectiveness team to identify and measure key sales team metrics, ensuring best practice use and adoption of MAXX by the sales team.

• Lead a sales-oriented culture and implement routine training and coaching processes to maximise selling expertise.

• Build and coach sales team in business acumen to optimise territory management planning and targeting against segmentation to maximise customer interactions and account outcomes.

• Coach and mentor the regional sales team, developing individual capabilities and fostering a culture of individual development.

• Achieve sales budgets and desired market share as identified for the business unit and achieve identified team sales metrics.

• Ensure compliance to discount and pricing policies.  

Account Management

• Lead the routine servicing of nominated Veterinary Wholesale accounts and/or buying groups at a state office level.

• Implement quarterly business reviews with nominated customers.

Market Dynamics

• Maintain and report on market trends, competitor’s activities, and other market information.

What You Must Have

• Tertiary qualification in Business or similar field

• Significant experience in a sales management role in related markets or industries.

• Strong leadership, sales, and coaching skills.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills including audio visual presentations.

• Proficiency in building strong rapport with internal and external stakeholders.

• Good management skills including analytical skills, time management, objective setting, and budget preparation.

• Highly developed skills in negotiating and influencing.

• Demonstrated business acumen & ability to understand the drivers of a business.

• Capacity to act as a team member and leader in physical isolation from staff and colleagues.

• Excellent organizational skills and timeliness in responding to customer needs.

• Self-starter with initiative who works well with minimal supervision.

• Proficiency with CRM systems.

• Ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines, make decisions on a day-to-day basis concerning normal activities, follow corporate policies and processes.

• Ability to think strategically, with medium to long term goals clearly identified, analyse data and problem solve in a logical manner.

What You Can Expect

• Great culture & benefits of working flexibly

• Opportunity to make an impact in the promotion and growth of our Companion Animal Business Unit

• Be part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations and solutions

• Exposure to a variety of brands and career growth

We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing talented and committed people together. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when ideas come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another’s thinking and approach problems collectively. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive workplace.

Required Skills:

Accountability, Accountability, Account Management, Adaptability, Animal Health Care, Corrective Action Management, Identifying Sales Opportunities, Inbound Phone Sales, Leadership, Lead Generation, Legal Compliance, Market Analysis, Marketing Implementation, Market Trends, New Product Initiatives, Order Management, People Leadership, Reporting Requirements, Safe Driving, Sales Forecasting, Sales Leadership, Sales Management, Sales Objectives, Sales Pipeline Management, Sales Reporting {+ 4 more}

Preferred Skills:

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Regular

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Job Posting End Date:

03/4/2026

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