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Outline
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Sales Force Strategy: 
Key Lessons and Practical Insights
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Presentation Objectives
  • Describe elements and challenges of sales force strategy (SFS)


  • Provide key sales force strategy insights


  • Provide easy-to-implement ideas and tools


  • Discuss when external expertise can add value to internal capabilities
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Diagnostic:  What’s Your Sales Force Strategy IQ?
  • Sales and marketing annually agree on reach and frequency by specialty across functions and teams
  • The firm can routinely track reach and frequency by specialty
  • Marketing is well aware of sales force frequency objectives and develops appropriate tools and programs to support those objectives
  • Senior sales managers know the incremental profitability of each product
  • Sales managers know the relative value of each specialty across products
  • The sales function rigorously analyzes the potential profitability of in-licensed products prior to acquisition
  • Sales managers understand how contract sales forces help spread risk
  • The sales function routinely assesses the impact of therapeutic class overlap on sales force size and structure
  • Sales managers minimize disruption in refining sales force size/structure
  • Sales management routinely measures the quality of customer lists