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Your profession: Commercial employee in the pharmaceutical sector (m/f)

Professional activities

Commercial employees in the pharmaceutical sector order, check, label and correctly shelve medicines. They also perform office and administrative tasks, sell standard products available at a dispensing chemist's and assist with sales promotion measures.

Fields of work

Commercial employees in the pharmaceutical sector mainly work at dispensing chemist's including dispensing chemist's located at hospitals, in merchandise planning and in warehousing for medical supplies or in accounts. They also find employment in areas such as the wholesale pharmaceutical sector or the pharmaceutical industry.

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The professional profiles are based on information from berufenet at the Federal Employment Agency and BIBB (Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training).