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Elissa Lippett

Manly

Summary

Results-driven Pharmaceutical Sales Representative with a strong track record of driving sales success—whether launching new products or growing established brands, regardless of PBS status. Passionate about delivering value through strategic partnerships, business acumen, and customer-centric engagement.

🔹 Omnichannel Engagement: Adaptable approach to meet customer needs across multiple platforms.
🔹 Strategic Relationship Management: Skilled in developing and leveraging stakeholder relationships to drive mutually beneficial outcomes.
🔹 Business Planning & Execution: Experienced in crafting and implementing successful sales strategies.
🔹 Strong Communicator & Influencer: Excellent negotiation, organisational, and problem-solving skills.
🔹 Collaborative Problem-Solving: Efficiently resolves challenges with internal and external partners.

Overview

35
35
years of professional experience

Work History

Key Account Manager

Echo Therapeutics
05.2024 - 10.2024
  • Promoted Opioid analgesia to Acute Pain Teams, Anaesthetists, Pharmacists and Registered Nurses to increase awareness, alleviate any misconceptions, and broaden the patient profile
  • Analysed sales data and implementing strategies to achieve business outcomes
  • Called on Procurement manager to ensure public hospitals are compliant with Echo Therapeutics NSW tender products
  • Educated acute pain teams, anaesthetists, nursing staff, and pharmacists, driving increased product usage while ensuring optimal patient outcomes
  • Facilitated availability in hospitals where product was previously unavailable
  • Expanded availability across various specialty wards within various hospitals, ensuring access for a diverse patient cohort

Key Account Manager - Hospital Specialist Representative

Pfizer Australia
05.2021 - 10.2021
  • Used an account management approach to launch an iron infusion
  • Identify appropriate specialities and key customers and decision makers to ensure product awareness within private and public hospitals
  • Promote product benefits with the intention of increasing sales
  • Facilitated four protocol applications in key public hospitals
  • Facilitated protocol approval and product usage in busy private clinic
  • Key hospital affiliated retail pharmacies initiated carrying stock
  • Adapted to omni channel engagement due to the constraints of Covid lockdown

Seminar Leader and Coach

Embracing Partnership
01.2018 - 02.2021
  • Client attraction and client retention
  • Sales, marketing, social media content
  • Managing and growing a CRM
  • Business planning and strategies inline to grow the business
  • Seminar and workshop content and presenting
  • Media opportunities

Sales Representative (Hospital)

Bio CSL
05.2011 - 10.2013
  • Increase revenue for Cardiology, Urology and Sleep portfolios
  • Developed a business plan to identify opportunities and plan strategic initiatives
  • Conducted product specific educational sessions for Specialists, GPs and Allied Health Professionals
  • Drove relationships with key medical specialists, heads of department and key opinion leaders, related to the product portfolio
  • "Sales Team of the Year 2012" as well as a peer nominated award
  • Achieved sales of 160% SVT in a very established class with a fourth to market cardiology product
  • Formulary listings at all primary public hospitals
  • Consistently increasing sales following formulary listings
  • 107% SVT for an established private script Urology product competing with a newly launched PBS product

Sales Representative (Hospital)

Pfizer Australia
01.2005 - 09.2009
  • Increase revenue for specific product portfolios
  • Drive relationships with key medical specialist opinion leaders related to product portfolio, including Psychiatrists, Psycho-geriatricians, Geriatricians, Neurologists, Physicians, Anaesthetists and Surgeons
  • Ensure all products gain formulary listings at all public hospitals, to enhance the products’ usage and availability
  • Pfizer Australia's "Sales Representative of the Year 2006- Neurology Care Champion"
  • Achieved "Sales Level 4- Executive Representative" (2006)
  • Formulary and impress listing at a key public hospital, ensuring the purchase of a minimum of 10,000 units per year
  • 10% growth on a ten year old market leading product with several key competitors

Sales Representative (General Practitioners)

Pfizer Australia
03.1999 - 01.2005
  • Promote neuroscience portfolio products to general practitioners (specialists and allied health teams in regional areas) to meet and exceed sales targets
  • Achieve call targets on doctors, pharmacists and key influential non prescribers
  • Mentor new representatives and team buddies
  • Plan and organise territory based GP educational meetings with key opinion leader speakers
  • 3rd highest monthly market share worldwide for Zoloft (2003) of 28.9%
  • Conducted the greatest number of GP educational "Sphere Mental Health" territory based meetings nationwide
  • Sales Level 3 -Senior Representative (2004)
  • Quarterly Sales Award (2003)

Registered Nurse

Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney Children’s Hospital
03.1990 - 03.1999
  • Specialities included respiratory cardiology, endocrinology, renal, orthopaedics and paediatrics

Education

Diploma of Nursing -

Flinders University
Adelaide, SA

Graduate Program - Planned Experience Program

Royal North Shore Hospital

Skills

  • Clinical Data Analysis
  • Pharmaceutical Market Knowledge
  • Developing Key Customer Relationships
  • Omni-Channel Communication
  • Territory Management
  • Effective Team Collaboration
  • Effective Communication
  • Adaptability and Flexibility
  • Strategic Call Planning

Timeline

Key Account Manager

Echo Therapeutics
05.2024 - 10.2024

Key Account Manager - Hospital Specialist Representative

Pfizer Australia
05.2021 - 10.2021

Seminar Leader and Coach

Embracing Partnership
01.2018 - 02.2021

Sales Representative (Hospital)

Bio CSL
05.2011 - 10.2013

Sales Representative (Hospital)

Pfizer Australia
01.2005 - 09.2009

Sales Representative (General Practitioners)

Pfizer Australia
03.1999 - 01.2005

Registered Nurse

Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney Children’s Hospital
03.1990 - 03.1999

Diploma of Nursing -

Flinders University

Graduate Program - Planned Experience Program

Royal North Shore Hospital
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