Trade Channel Associate

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Support trade-channel plans and coordinate sales activities, campaigns, and initiatives.
• Maintain relationships with distributors, wholesalers, pharmacies, healthcare customers, and other trade partners.
• Prepare sales updates, channel reports, customer information, and performance summaries; monitor activity and identify performance opportunities.
• Support customer meetings, business reviews, presentations, promotional materials, and product information.
• Track actions and deadlines, and coordinate with supply chain and customer service to help resolve availability, order, and delivery issues.
• Follow company policies and industry requirements and contribute to process improvement.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, life sciences, healthcare management, or a related field.
• Approximately 1–3 years of relevant experience; pharmaceutical or healthcare experience is preferred.
• Experience with commercial stakeholders and a basic understanding of sales planning, channel management, and commercial execution.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel and PowerPoint, plus analytical and organizational skills.
• Clear written and verbal English communication; additional local-language skills may be required depending on the market.
• Strong Saudi market experience and current knowledge of local trends and dynamics.

Success factors

• Customer-focused, collaborative, proactive, and able to turn plans into actions and follow through.
• Confident working with data and communicating commercial insights; attentive to detail and able to manage time and priorities.
• Builds trust with internal teams and trade partners and exercises professional judgment with customer, product, and commercial information.

Success measures