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Medical and Pharmaceutical Products Sales Representative

OFO Code: 243302

Last checked 7 October 2026

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1. Occupation identity

OFO code
243302
Occupation
Medical and Pharmaceutical Products Sales Representative
Classification
OFO 2021
Major group
PROFESSIONALS
Unit group
2433 · Technical and Medical Sales Professionals (Excluding ICT)

Official description
Technical and medical sales professionals (excluding ICT) represent companies in selling a range of industrial, medical and pharmaceutical goods and services to industrial, business, professional and other establishments.

More official OFO detail

Alternative titles: Health Product Sales Representative

Specialisations: Pharmaceutical Territory Manager, Medical Detailer, Medical Representative

  • Assessing clients' needs and resources and recommending appropriate goods or services
  • Visiting regular and prospective client businesses to establish and act on selling opportunities
  • Consulting with clients after sale to ensure satisfaction resolve any problems and provide ongoing support
  • Providing input to product design where goods or services must be tailored to suit clients’ needs
  • Acquiring and updating knowledge of employers’ and competitors’ goods and services, and market conditions
  • Estimating costs of installing and maintaining equipment or service
  • Monitoring customers’ changing needs and competitor activity, and reporting these developments to sales management
  • Compiling lists of prospective client businesses using directories and other sources
  • Arranging delivery of goods, installation of equipment and the provision of services
  • Developing reports and proposals as part of sales presentation to demonstrate benefits from use of good or service
  • Reporting to sales management on sales made and the marketability of goods and services
  • Quoting and negotiating prices and credit terms, and preparing and administering sales contracts

2. Demand status

Demand evidence unavailable

No approved governed OIHD graph relationship is available on this deployment for this OFO code.

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3. Salary evidence

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5. Qualification

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7. Industry, sector and provincial context

National occupation classification. Industry and provincial context are shown only where a separate official source supports the link.

No source-backed modern OFO↔SIC 7 industry link has been ingested for this occupation yet. PathLens does not infer one from the job title.

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9. Decision tools

10. Sources for this page

  • DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Ingested · identity spine active
    Canonical OFO identity data has been ingested and validated. 1511 occupation records are recorded in the ingest artifact.
  • DHET Occupations in High Demand · Validated pipeline · graph publication not confirmed
    The governed OIHD pipeline is active, but a successful populated graph run is not currently confirmed on this deployment.
  • Critical Skills List · Monitored · occupation linkage pending
    Official migration sources are monitored, but PathLens does not infer visa eligibility or occupation-level eligibility from monitoring alone.
  • QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Candidate staging ready · not published
    Qualification staging and human review are implemented; no qualification↔OFO relationship is published without an explicit source identifier or governed human review.
  • Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Acquisition active · no approved evidence on this deployment
    Official QLFS artifact discovery is active. Dataset-specific schema, weighting, reliability and review gates remain separate; a discovered artifact or executable estimator does not itself create a public claim.
  • SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Partial · explicit source links only
    PathLens preserves explicit source-backed SETA/activity links where present and does not infer modern SIC relationships from occupation titles.
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