Hospital Specialists network and liaise with medical professionals. They contact their clients to arrange demonstrations, meeting and presentations. These usually are conducted when the doctors are available, because of the unpredictability of their time. It is integral that these specialists be able to create and maintain their client network, because of the nature of their job.

What they do involves a lot of travelling and visiting client locations. Some spend their entire week, on the road, going from one hospital to the next. This job is good for people who have excellent sales skills.

Hospital Specialists usually performs many of the following tasks:

• Preparing and delivering presentations
• Meeting with anaesthetists, intensivists, or neurologist
• Attending national and international meetings
•  Identifying key decision makers
•  Increasing client accounts
• Liaising with directors and therapy managers
•  Visiting hospitals
• Meeting sales targets

• Planning and organisation
• Communication and listening
• Making presentations and conducting demonstrations
• Analysing and interpreting data
• Being disciplined and motivated
• Being ambitious and professional
• Business planning and problem solving
• Being persistent and respectful
• Time and people management
• Being confident and loyal

Getting a Life Science Bachelors or Masters Degree will help you in getting a Hospital Specialist job position. Having an education founded in medicine will help Hospital Specialists understand their clients’ needs and be able to communicate the products applicability to those needs. Other acceptable qualifications include training in Nursing, Biology, Biomedical Sciences, Sales, Marketing, Health Care, Pharmacology, and Medicine. You should also be ABPI qualified.