Trade Channel Associate

Role overview

Trade channel activities

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

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, life sciences, healthcare management, or a related field.
• Approximately 1–3 years of experience in sales, trade marketing, commercial operations, customer management, or a related area; pharmaceutical or healthcare experience is preferred.
• Experience with customers, distributors, wholesalers, retail partners, or other commercial stakeholders; basic understanding of sales planning, channel management, and commercial execution.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel and PowerPoint; good analytical and organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Clear written and verbal English communication; additional local-language skills may be required depending on the market.
• Strong Saudi local-market experience and current knowledge of local market trends and dynamics.

Working approach

• Customer-focused, collaborative, proactive, and able to turn plans into action and follow through on commitments.
• Comfortable preparing reports, communicating commercial insights, managing time, and building trust with internal teams and external partners.
• Uses professional judgment when handling customer, product, and commercial information.

Success measures