Role of a Biomedical Engineer in Latin America as a Supplier of Medical Devices and Services for an Asian Transnational Company
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Biomedical engineer, Multinational , Technical service, Marketing, Business
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The hiring of biomedical engineers by an Asian multinational in Latin America is increasing. Chinese companies are expanding, and this professional profile is the most sought-after saliency by these companies. Biomedical engineers have multidisciplinary training to support multinationals in planning, finding potential distributors, and performing pre-sales and post-sales operations, thereby involving biomedical engineer in all company departments. Biomedical engineers are key and highly valuable employees for the business growth of companies in Latin America. This paper provides biomedical engineers an overview of the activities performed by a Chinese multinational, the challenges, important peculiarities of Latin American countries, and the skills and capabilities that a biomedical engineer must have to work for a Chinese multinational.
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