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Bertie Bierman

Bertie Bierman

Pretoria,South Africa

Summary

Accomplished Sales Representative with a career history marked by numerous sales awards, recognitions, and recommendations. A track record of exceeding sales, service, and territory management. Over 23 years of successful experience as a leader and mentor to junior sales professionals.

Overview

26
26
years of professional experience

Work history

Specialist Sales Representative (Heam Portfolio)

Acino Pharma
Pretoria South & East, Pretoria
02.2020 - Current
  • Helped upskill new employees on in-field interfaces for the most efficient integration into territories. Received Gold Encore Award for this initiative
  • Grew high-value brand from R350 000 monthly sales to R1.2M within 8 months in 2021.
  • Skilled in developing impactful customer relationships and executing benefit-orientated selling skills to increase revenue.
  • Specialities called on: GPs. Nephrologists, Surgeons, Infectious Disease Specialists, Critical Care Specialists, Specialist Physicians, Microbiologists, Endocrinologists, Pulmonologists and Infusion nurses
  • Training of Doctors, Pharmacies, Theatres, Wards, ICUs, and infusion center's in the Private and Government sectors.
  • Organizing CME/CPD functions and Congress Attendance
  • Organising Launch Functions
  • Prisms CRM Platform
  • Development of KOL's
  • Data analysis to monitor field response, time allocation, and targeting.
  • Quarterly Territory Report

Pain CNS Portfolio Representative

Takeda
Gauteng, then Pretoria South and East, Gauteng and Polokwane
07.2013 - 01.2020
  • Impactful customer relationships and execution of benefit-orientated selling skills to increase revenue.
  • Calling on Doctors, Pharmacies, Theatres, and ICUs in Private and Government Sector
  • Organising Launch Functions
  • Prisms CRM Platform
  • Development of KOL's
  • Organizing CME/CPD functions and
  • Congress Attendance
  • Disease areas: Intravenous Iron and reimbursement assistance, Pain (NSAID), Asthma, COPD and Allergic Rhinitis, Oral iron and Anti-Infectives
  • Calling on GPs, Physicians, Anesthetists, ENTs, Pediatricians, Gastroenterologists, Surgeons, Gynecologists, Hematologists, Nephrologists, Infectious Disease Specialists, Microbiologists, Critical Care Specialists, and Pulmonologists

Territories:


1. Gauteng Province

1. Launch of Dexis®️ - Disease Area: Resistant Airway Disease

2. Launch of Omnair®️ - Disease Area: Asthma

3. Inhaled Corticostredoid - Disease Area: Asthma

5 Launch of Circadin®️ - Disease Area: Insomnia

  • Customer base: Critical Care Specialists, ENTs, Nephrologists, Geriatric Specialist Physicians, Specialist Physicians, Pulmonologists, and Sleep Specialists in Government hospitals and the private market


2. Pretoria South & East, Polokwane, Rustenburg and Thabazimbe

1. Nsaid - Disease Area: Pain,

2. Carbapenem - Disease area: Anti-Infectives

3. Oral iron treatment -Disease Area: Iron deficiency & Aneamia

4. Intranasal spray® - Disease Area: Allergic Rhinitis

5. Melatonin - Disease area: Insomnia

  • Customer Base: Infectious Disease Specialists, Microbiologists, Critical Care Specialists, ENTs, Nephrologists, Geriatric Specialist Physicians, Specialist Physicians, Pulmonologist's, and Sleep Specialists in Government hospitals and the private market Expense management

Specialised Sales Representative

Adcock Ingram
Midrand, South Africa
07.2011 - 06.2013
  • Calling on GPs, Dermatologists, Physicians and Allergologists in Pretoria East & South
  • Disease Area: Eczema and Urticaria
  • Territory: Pretoria and Polokwane
  • Maintained consistent sales growth by regularly servicing accounts and connecting with customers to promote new products.

Medical Sales Representative

Abbot Pharmaceuticals
Pretoria, Pretoria and Polokwane
02.2011 - 06.2011
  • Performed initial client assessment and analysis to begin identifying prospective clients to begin the reimbursement process., in order to ensure access to medicine in Premature Infants.
  • Liasing with Pediatricians, medical aids, and Nursing staff to ensure follow through in connecting delivery and administration to the patient
  • Disease Area: Neonatal and Newborn Influenza Virus Immunisation and Reimbursement Service

Specialised Medical Sales Representative

Nycomed
Bloemfontein and then Gauteng South, Free State and Northern Cape, Gauteng
11.2004 - 10.2009

Disease Areas:

1. Intravenous iron

2. Pain

3. Launch of Alvesco®️ - Inhaled corticosteroid, Disease area: Asthma

  • Achieved sales and service targets by leveraging interpersonal communication skills and product knowledge to cultivate and secure new customer relationships.
  • Awarded Tender status in Free-State Government Hospital Network through engagement with the Head of the Department of Gastroenterology, pharmacy manager, and ultimately getting PCT Committee approval.
  • Assisting Doctors with reimbursement of Intravenous Iron
  • Achieved consistent sales growth of Venofer®️
  • Streamlined the motivation process to gain a high success rate for reimbursement of IV iron
  • Managed business development initiatives through impactful customer relationships and benefit-orientated sales calls and presentations to increase revenue.
  • Calling on Doctors, Pharmacies, Theatres, and Private and Government Sector
  • Organising Launch Functions
  • Prisms CRM Platform
  • Development of KOL's
  • Organizing CME/CPD functions and
  • Congress Attendance

Medical Sales Representative

Glaxo Welcome
Bloemfontein, Free State and Northern Cape
11.1999 - 09.2004
  • Delivered an exceptional level of service to each customer by listening to concerns and answering questions.
  • Visited stakeholders at hospitals and physician offices to provide information on a range of asthma treatments to achieve and exceed sales expectations.
  • Launch of Seretide®️ - Disease area: Asthma & COPD
  • Inhaled Corticosteroid and Intranasal Corticosteroid - Disease Area:

Asthma & COPD

Education

Bachelor of Science in Nursing — 1996 - Nursing

University of the Free State
Bloemfontein, South Africa

Postgraduate Studies - Critical Care Nursing

University of the Free State
Bloemfontein, Orange Free State
/1998 - /1999

Skills

  • Relationship selling
  • On-site product presentations
  • Strategic planning: identifying high potential clients for effective time management
  • Training of pharmacy, ward, and ICU personnel
  • Above average product knowledge & disease entity depth
  • Self-motivated
  • Teamwork and collaboration
  • Strong interest in training and up-skilling colleagues
  • Problem-solving strength
  • Data analysis and territory targeting
  • Industry sales trend analysis

Accomplishments

  • AWARDS:
  • Nycomed/Takeda
  • 2006 📍Representative of the Year and Top Performers Club

    2007 📍Top Performers Club

    2008 📍Specialist Sales Representative of the Year

  • Takeda
  • 2015📍 Top Performers Club Award 2015

    (This award was given to the top 3 representatives of the

    the regions in the country)

    📍 Central Africa and Middle East STAR Award:

    Region Africa & Middle East (NEMEA) - Category: Best

    Performing Sales Team. The 7 members of the Pretoria East

    team traveled to Abu Dhabi for the awards ceremony to

    receive recognition as the third-highest-performing team in

    the region

    2016 📍 Top Performers Club Award

    2017 📍 Top Performers Club Award

    2018 📍 Top Performers Club Award

    2018 📍 Sales Representative of the Year


  • Acino Pharma
  • 2021 📍 Heam Portfolio Representative of the Year

    📍Q3 Rep of the Quarter Award

    📍Q3 Gold Encore Award (Assisting with training of new

    employees)

Hobbies

Swimming

Reading

Mosaïc

Timeline

Specialist Sales Representative (Heam Portfolio)

Acino Pharma
02.2020 - Current

Pain CNS Portfolio Representative

Takeda
07.2013 - 01.2020

Specialised Sales Representative

Adcock Ingram
07.2011 - 06.2013

Medical Sales Representative

Abbot Pharmaceuticals
02.2011 - 06.2011

Specialised Medical Sales Representative

Nycomed
11.2004 - 10.2009

Medical Sales Representative

Glaxo Welcome
11.1999 - 09.2004

Bachelor of Science in Nursing — 1996 - Nursing

University of the Free State

Postgraduate Studies - Critical Care Nursing

University of the Free State
/1998 - /1999
Bertie Bierman