SOCOPAC Medical Sales Force Training Manager You’ve built experience, now use it where bold ideas meet real impact. At Opella, we’re challenging how self-care works for millions of people and need leaders and experts ready to shape what’s next. As a SOCOPAC Medical Sales Force Training Manager, you’ll bring your skill, your curiosity and your drive to make health simpler, smarter and more human. About the job: Lead the regional training and capability development strategy for the medical sales force across SOCOPAC markets. You will strengthen scientific knowledge, selling skills, customer-centric execution and field coaching, while building a scalable Medical Sales Force Excellence platform that supports consistent, effective engagement with healthcare professionals.
• Lead initiatives that advance our brands and strengthen our reputation worldwide.
• Mentor and uplift emerging talent while pushing your own growth and influence.
• Put purpose into practice — embedding sustainability, access and social impact into every decision.
• Model the challenger mindset: question complexity, act with integrity and make things radically simple.
• Help shape a culture that’s ambitious, collaborative and serious about recognition and belonging. Main
responsibilities:
Design and implement a regional training strategy aligned with business priorities, brand strategies and healthcare professional engagement objectives.
• Develop a structured curriculum covering scientific and disease education, product knowledge, communication, consultative selling and objection handling.
• Build and continuously improve a regional Medical Sales Force Excellence platform for onboarding,
continuous learning and professional development.
• Partner with Medical, Marketing, Sales Excellence and local teams to ensure training content is scientifically sound, consistent with approved claims and aligned with local regulations.
• Conduct regional field visits, observe customer interactions and provide structured coaching and individualized development plans.
• Deliver scalable blended-learning experiences using face-to-face sessions, virtual learning, digital modules, role-playing, gamification and field coaching.
• Define training KPIs and implement assessment and certification processes to measure knowledge, skills, field execution and business impact. About you:
• Significant experience in the pharmaceutical or consumer healthcare industry, ideally across medical sales, sales force training, field coaching or commercial excellence.
• Proven ability to design and implement training strategies for medical representatives or pharmaceutical sales forces, including competency frameworks, learning platforms and performance assessments.
• Strong understanding of medical promotion, healthcare professional engagement, scientific detailing and the healthcare ecosystem, with the ability to translate complex evidence into clear field conversations.
• Strong project management, stakeholder management, influencing, coaching and facilitation skills, with experience working across countries and cultures highly desirable.
• Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy, Medicine, Life Sciences, Business Administration or a related field; a postgraduate qualification in training, commercial excellence or a related discipline is a plus.
• Advanced English is required
• Availability for frequent regional travel across SOCOPAC markets. This is more than the next step in your career, it’s a chance to lead change and help reinvent self-care for the world. If you’re ready to challenge, inspire and deliver impact that matters, we’re ready for you. We are challengers. We are Opella.
About Us
Opella is the self-care challenger with the purest and third-largest portfolio in the Over The Counter (OTC) & Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements (VMS) market globally. Our mission is to bring health in people’s hands by making self-care as simple as it should be. For half a billion consumers worldwide – and counting. At the core of this mission is our 100 loved brands, our 11,000-strong integral team, our 13 best-in-class manufacturing sites and 4 specialized science and innovation development centers. Headquartered in France, Opella is the proud maker of many of the world’s most loved brands, including Allegra, Buscopan, Doliprane, Dulcolax, Enterogermina, Essentiale and Mucosolvan. As a globally certified B Corp company, we are active players in the journey towards healthier people and planet. Find out more about our mission at www.opella.com. m.
📌 SOCOPAC Medical Sales Force Training Manager (Bogotá)
🏢 Opella
📍 Bogotá