Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Posted October 28, 2026

Medical Representative (6 months -Contract)

Cape Town, WC, South Africa Contract
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About this opportunity

Selling, detailing and promoting products, in a designated area, to targeted doctors and pharmacies, with the focus on doctors and corporate pharmacies.

The implementation of action plans in accordance with the marketing/sales strategy of the Company to ensure sales targets are achieved on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis.

Personally, visiting and liaising with relevant targeted clients which are crucial to the performance of the Company, as agreed with the respective Regional Manager/National Sales Manager.

Maintaining a data-base of all targeted clients.

Liaising with the Regional Manager/National Sales Manager with respect to the effective exploitation of the various business opportunities in the designated areas.

To report product complaints (adverse events & product technical complaints) and medical information queries for all DRL products as per internal processes.

Education qualification 

Bachelors Degree/ Diploma in Life Sciences or Relative Field

Experience

Minimum 1-2 years of Pharma Industry Experience

Established and Existing relationships with key stakeholders is beneficial

Skills & attributes –

Technical Skills 

• Basic understanding of pharmaceutical industry, market trends, competitors, customer understanding.

• Ability to set clear goals, provide guidance, and track team performance.

• Ability to analyse sales data, track performance metrics, and generate reports to measure the effectiveness of sales strategies.

• Basic Computer Knowledge.

Behavioural Skills

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.

• Good at Building and leveraging relationship

Benefits Offered

At Dr. Reddy’s we actively help to catalyse your career growth and professional development through personalised learning programs.

The benefits you will enjoy at Dr. Reddy’s are on par with the best industry standards. They include, among other things and other essential equipment, joining & relocation support, family support (Maternity & Paternity benefits), learning and development opportunities, medical coverage for yourself and your family, life coverage for yourself.

Our Work Culture

Ask any employee at Dr. Reddy’s why they come to work every day and they’ll say, because Good Health Can’t Wait. This is our credo as well as the guiding principle behind all our actions. We see healthcare solutions not only as scientific formulations, but as a means to help patients lead healthier lives, and we’re always attuned to the new and the next to empower people to stay fit. And to do this, we foster a culture of empathy and dynamism. People are at the core of our journey over the last few decades. They have been supported by an enabling environment that buoys individual ability while fostering teamwork and shared success. We believe that when people with diverse skills are bound together by a common purpose and value system, they can make magic.

For more details, please visit our career website at https://careers.drreddys.com/#!/ 

Job details

Seniority
Not listed
Function
Sales
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
Cape Town, WC, South Africa
Employment type
Contract

How this role compares

Computed from every other active Sales role in our database, not just this employer's listings.

We currently track 4709 comparable Sales roles across 209 biopharma companies.

4709Comparable roles tracked
4374Currently active
209Companies hiring similar roles
80Countries represented

Salary context

949 of 4709 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)

Peers share this role's job function. This posting doesn't list a seniority level, so peers aren't narrowed by seniority either -- the range below may span more levels than usual.

This roleSubject Not listed on this posting
Lowest disclosed · Pharmaceutical Sales Associate - Salt Lake City, UT · IQVIA $55/yr – $63,000/yr
Highest disclosed · Vice President, Integrated Medicines Business, East · Pfizer $300,100/yr – $500,100/yr
Peer group range $31,528 – $400,100 (median $145,550)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 4709 comparable roles

United States2141
China813
India265
Germany249
Japan87
Poland85

+ 74 more countries

Seniority mix

2034 of 4709 peers have a known seniority level

Manager1146
Senior644
Associate104
Director85
Intern/Fellow/Postdoc31
Associate Director11
Executive/VP8
Senior Director5

Therapeutic area mix

1137 of 4709 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Oncology351
Neuroscience200
Rare Disease138
Dermatology & Aesthetics121
Cardiovascular / CVRM114
Immunology75
Gastroenterology49
Vaccines & Infectious Disease48
Respiratory36
Ophthalmology5

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How we calculate "similar"

No black box, no LLM guesswork: a deterministic score built from four normalized attributes. Here's this role's own peer group at different match levels, so you can see the mechanism, not just the result.

Every comparison starts from the same 100-point budget: 25 for working in the same function, 40 for the same therapeutic area, 20 for the same or adjacent seniority, 15 for the same country. A dimension we can't confirm on both sides contributes nothing, never a guess, never a free pass.

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Unmatched or unknown dimensions score exactly the same: 0 points, never a partial guess. A role we know almost nothing about beyond its function bottoms out at 25%; it never inflates to 100% just because there's little to compare against. Seniority uses a defined ladder (Associate → Manager → Associate Director → Senior → Principal → Director → Senior Director → Executive/VP) so "Director" and "Senior Director" count as adjacent, but "Director" and "Executive/VP" do not.