CAREERS AT PRAAVA

What is Praava Health?

Praava Health is building Bangladesh’s fastest-growing consumer healthcare brand. We are raising the bar with a brick-and-click healthcare platform that combines digital tools with meaningful doctor-Patient relationships, quality diagnostics, and pharmacy services. In May 2020, Fast Company recognized Praava Health in its World Changing Ideas Awards. Praava’s work has also been featured Forbes Magazine, Financial Times, NASDAQ,Tech in Asia, and Devex; and Praava won MIT Solve’s Bangladesh Tiger Challenge in 2019. Praava Health was selected by the Tamer Fund for Social Ventures at Columbia Business School as an inaugural portfolio venture and was also selected by Alter Global as one of Bangladesh’s most promising new companies. Praava is a Patient-driven company that aims to be every Patient’s first call, seamlessly integrating quality infrastructure with technology to improve efficiency, accessibility, & scalability of the brick & click model. Praava is the combination of the words “praan” (life) and “aava” (beam) -- “beam of life” is a symbolic reflection of what we are building. We aspire to be Bangladesh’s trusted partner in health, empowering Patients to manage their health in a manner aligned with their values. We are a small, impassioned, collaborative team that is inspired to build the best healthcare company in Bangladesh. We seek interns who are excited to help us to build, design, and communicate a new brand and a new concept of healthcare to a new market.

Why Bangladesh is the Next Asian Tiger?

Nearly 170 million people live in Bangladesh, making it one of the world’s most populous countries and densely populated markets. Bangladesh is also one of the fastest growing economies in the world and has been dubbed the next Asian tiger by the World Economic Forum,The Economist, andothers. A dynamic, growing middle class of 40+ million people – 25% of the population – has already propelled Bangladesh to “middle-income” status. As income levels rise, health expenditures increase disproportionately. Middle class families demand and can pay for higher quality services. To learn more about Bangladesh’s healthcare system, check out pieces penned by the founder Strategic Review and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Job Description

Key Relationships:

• Medical Services
• Operations
• Administration
• Business innovation
• Visiting Specialist
• Laboratory

Job Purpose:

Responsible for communicating with the territory wise Doctors, Institutions, and Private hospitals/clinics and to achieve target as well as to establish the brand image. This is a performance driven field oriented job which will require short to long travel within the country to attend to target customers. Personal selling to specific potential community doctors constitutes the major focus of the job. Candidates should be pleasant but persevering and should have common knowledge regarding Service Marketing Practices in the Health Sector.

Key Responsibility Areas:

• Familiarize with the doctors’ specially Oncologists’ practices and specialties; develop and maintain potential Doctors’ database within assigned territory.
• Build and maintain relationships with medical professionals in keeping contact with the medical association; medical institutes
• Collect information about the doctors operating in those institutes and maintain a good relationship with the doctors and generate prescriptions
• Achieve monthly targets from assigned territory as set by the management
• Organize event management like CME Seminar, Health Clinic etc. involving community physicians keeping excellent public relations & rapport with concerned people and with supporting logistics.
• Travel to assigned external healthcare facilities for doctor visits, increase referral and subsequent business development
• Communicate the company’s image services to the visited locality doctors, chemist, clinic hospitals etc. 
• Prepare a monthly activity plan and activity report with target achievement performance to submit to the Sales Lead.

Qualifications:

• Masters/ BSc in any discipline.

Experience:

• Minimum 3-4 years’ experience is essential with sales filed in a Diagnostic or Pharmaceutical company or in allied Health Sector and knows Oncology- Doctors/Institutions.

Technical Skills/Knowledge:

• Business/Commercial Knowledge
• Understanding about formal material management mechanism
• Excellent Communication Skill

Interpersonal Skills:

• Outstanding negotiation skill
• Open to criticism
• Ownership
• Business etiquette
• Comfortable using Microsoft Office and Internet Applications

Behavioral Competencies:

• Honest
• Service orientation
• Team work
• Resilience
• Organized and attention to details
• Outstanding conversation skils

Why work at Praava Health?

• Make the world a better place: Every member of our team believes in her/his capacity to contribute to systemic change in healthcare in Bangladesh
• Be at the forefront of redesigning healthcare delivery: Praava has an incredible platform for impact, including through incorporation of value-based concepts that align our incentives with our Patients' for a healthier future for our communities and our country
• Improve healthcare and health through evidence: We are investing in constantly evaluating the effectiveness and impact of our work
• Revolutionize healthcare through the concept of patient-centric care: Praava's core values ensure that Patients are treated with empathy, respect, and dignity. We are committed to creating an unparalleled healthcare experience and changing the perception of healthcare in Bangladesh. We are driven by the belief that clinical outcomes are actually improved when Patients are engaged in managing their health.
• Join a diverse, energetic team: The Praava team is proud to have attracted a wide range of international and local talent, and we hope you can help us to expand this. The team is energetic, amiable, and helpful, and truly embodies a work family.
• Be part of a rapidly scaling organization: By harnessing technology, data, and creative alternative financing models, Praava Health expects to offer world-class health care to tens of millions of Bangladeshis.

Praava Health is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other quality protected by law.