MedTech and pharma sales often involve long buying cycles, multiple decision-makers, and frequent follow-ups. Sales reps need a clear way to stay connected with prospects without losing the personal approach that healthcare sales require.
HubSpot Sequences help sales teams organize one-to-one outreach through scheduled emails, follow-up tasks, and personalized touchpoints. Reps can maintain consistent communication and focus their time on prospects who show genuine interest.
In this article, you’ll learn how to use HubSpot Sequences for MedTech and pharma sales, from buyer segmentation and sequence structure to effective touchpoints and the right use of automation.
MedTech and pharma sales teams often deal with longer, more complex buying journeys than typical B2B sales teams. A rep may need to stay engaged with clinicians, procurement teams, administrators, technical stakeholders, or other decision-makers over an extended period. HubSpot Sequences can make that follow-up more systematic without turning every interaction into a fully automated campaign.
Here’s why they are particularly useful:
The strongest use case is automating the predictable parts. Timing, reminders, routine follow-ups, and repeatable outreach. So salespeople have more time for demos, stakeholder conversations, account strategy, and personalized engagement.
For more ways to strengthen lead nurturing and move prospects toward conversion, read 6 Top Lead Nurturing Conversion Optimization Strategy Tips.
The right contacts depend on what you sell and where the account is in the buying process:
One caution is especially relevant for MedTech and pharma: don't automatically put large lists of newly imported cold contacts into sequences. HubSpot specifically advises against automated sequence enrollment for recently imported cold leads and recommends targeted enrollment criteria instead.
Before building your sequence, you should know where to find and set it up in HubSpot. Navigate to Sales > Sequences, click Create Sequence, then choose to start from scratch or use a pre-made template. Once the editor opens, name your sequence and begin adding your outreach steps.
Start by deciding exactly what you want the contact to do when they receive the sequence. For example, a sequence could aim to get a hospital stakeholder to:
Keep each sequence focused on one primary conversion point. A post-conference sequence, for example, should move the contact toward the next conversation rather than simultaneously pushing a demo, multiple resources, pricing, and several unrelated products.
Don't put clinicians, procurement contacts, and executives into the same sequence simply because they work at the same organization.
Create HubSpot lists or filters based on CRM properties such as job role, organization, lifecycle stage, product interest, previous engagement, event attendance, or opportunity status. HubSpot recommends segmenting contacts into saved filters and tailoring sequence emails to each segment.
Decide the touchpoints and timing before adding steps to HubSpot. A practical MedTech sequence could look like:
Day 1: Personalized introduction
Day 3: Share a relevant clinical or educational resource
Day 6: Manual call or LinkedIn follow-up task
Day 9: Send a relevant case study or use case
Day 14: Ask whether a demonstration or short conversation would be useful
The exact cadence should reflect the sales context. Someone who requested a demo usually warrants faster follow-up than an older contact being re-engaged.
Build each email around why that particular person should care.
Instead of: “Our medical device improves efficiency and delivers excellent outcomes.”
A clinician-focused message could explain how the product fits a specific clinical workflow, using CRM data such as the contact’s name, role, organization, product interest, or previous interactions to personalize the outreach. HubSpot supports personalization tokens in sequence templates, making it easier to tailor messages to relevant audience segments.
However, don't depend entirely on tokens. Give reps room to add context such as:
“It was great speaking with you at [conference] about how your team currently handles [specific process].”
That makes the sequence a framework for personalized selling rather than a generic email drip.
A sequence does not need to rely only on automated emails. Add manual tasks when a prospect reaches a point where direct, rep-led interaction could be more valuable.
After sending clinical information, for instance, the sequence could create a task for the rep to call the prospect instead of immediately sending another automated email. Manual email tasks can also open a pre-populated template for the rep to review, personalize, and send.
Define exactly who enters the sequence and when outreach should stop. For example, you might enroll contacts when they request information, attend an event, complete a demo, or meet specific CRM criteria.
HubSpot currently supports workflow-based sequence enrollment using targeted criteria on eligible subscriptions. However, HubSpot specifically advises against automated enrollment when recently imported cold leads are active, when enrolling more than 100 contacts, or when using broad, non-personalized criteria such as a contact creation date.
Also configure your exit conditions. By default, HubSpot can automatically unenroll a contact after they reply to an email or book a meeting, preventing the remaining scheduled messages from continuing after a real conversation has started.
For account-based healthcare sales, you can also configure whether an engagement should unenroll only that contact or all contacts at the same company.
Start with a defined group, for example, healthcare decision-makers who attended a specific conference or prospects who completed a product demo.
Then review:
Replies: Are the right buyers responding?
Meetings: Is the sequence producing the intended next step?
Bounces: Is your contact data reliable?
Drop-off: At which step does engagement decline?
Messaging: Which emails generate meaningful conversations?
HubSpot's sequence sender score uses reply rate and bounce rate to assess sequence email effectiveness and sending quality. HubSpot currently considers a 7–13% reply rate and a bounce rate below 3% good benchmarks for sender score purposes, although actual performance will vary considerably by audience and sales motion.
Use those results to adjust the email copy, resources, delays, tasks, or segmentation before expanding enrollment.
Each touchpoint in a MedTech or pharma sales sequence should have a clear purpose. Each interaction should add context, answer a question, provide useful information, or move the healthcare buyer toward the next conversation.
Your first email should quickly establish why you're contacting this person specifically.
Include:
For example, after a medical conference, a rep might reference the conversation at the booth and the clinical or operational challenge the prospect discussed.
The second interaction should add value instead of simply asking whether the prospect saw your first email. Depending on the healthcare buyer, you could share:
Keep the resource focused. Sending several PDFs, videos, brochures, and links at once can make the buyer decide what matters rather than helping them understand the next step.
This is a good point to move beyond automated emails. Create a HubSpot task prompting the rep to call the prospect, send a carefully personalized email, or complete another appropriate follow-up activity. HubSpot can automatically create these tasks as contacts progress through a sequence. Manual email tasks can also open the email composer with the selected template ready for the rep to review and personalize.
Before reaching out, the rep can review the CRM record for context such as previous conversations, product interest, recent engagement, and deal activity.
The interaction might then focus on a specific question:
“You mentioned reducing setup time was a priority for your team. Is that something you're currently evaluating?”
That gives the buyer something concrete to respond to.
If the prospect hasn't responded, don't simply send another version of “checking in.” Use the next touchpoint to address a question that commonly appears at this stage of the buying process.
Depending on the product and buyer, that could relate to:
The exact information should always depend on the buyer.
Once you've established relevance, provide evidence that helps the prospect evaluate whether continuing the conversation is worthwhile.
That might include a relevant case study, customer example, product demonstration, approved clinical resource, or other substantiated material your organization is permitted to use.
Later touchpoints should make it easy for an interested buyer to move forward. Do not end with a vague “Let me know what you think”. Connect the CTA to the sequence's original objective.
For example:
“Would a 20-minute product walkthrough next week be useful?”
Or:
“Would it make sense to include your procurement team in the next conversation?”
If the prospect hasn't responded, the final touchpoint can acknowledge that timing may not be right. Keep it brief. Remind them why you reached out, give them an easy way to continue the conversation, and leave the relationship open for future follow-up.
For example:
“It sounds like this may not be a priority right now. If that changes, I'm happy to reconnect and share more information.”
This is also where performance data becomes useful. HubSpot lets teams analyze replies, meetings, opens, clicks, bounces, and performance at individual sequence steps. Use those results to identify which touchpoints generate conversations and where prospects consistently disengage.
The overall progression should feel like:
For MedTech and pharma teams, that structure keeps the sequence focused on helping healthcare buyers evaluate the next step, rather than sending seven variations of the same sales email.
Automation works best for predictable, repeatable follow-up. For MedTech and pharma teams, use it to handle routine outreach and bring reps in when clinical context, judgment, or personalized communication is needed.
Automation makes sense when HubSpot has a reliable signal that a contact should enter a sequence, such as:
For example: Demo requested → Workflow enrolls contact → Sequence begins → Assigned rep follows up
HubSpot workflows can enroll and unenroll contacts from sequences based on defined criteria, helping teams automate enrollment, timing, routine emails, and task creation.
Dynamic sequences combine automated nurturing with rep-led follow-up based on engagement. Automated emails can continue until a prospect opens or clicks an email, at which point HubSpot can surface a manual task for the rep.
For example: Automated introduction → Clinical resource → Prospect engages → Rep task → Personal follow-up
This helps MedTech and pharma reps focus their time on prospects showing interest instead of giving every contact the same level of manual attention.
Use automation for predictable actions such as scheduled emails, delays, enrollment, unenrollment, and task creation.
Keep reps involved when a conversation requires clinical knowledge, account context, or judgment, such as answering clinical questions, discussing workflows, handling objections, or navigating multiple stakeholders.
For more ways to improve automated follow-up, read 5 Powerful Lead-Nurturing Automation Strategies You Need.
HubSpot Sequences can help MedTech and pharma sales teams create consistent, relevant follow-up across complex buying cycles. With the right setup, sequences, workflows, CRM data, and rep tasks can work together around how your buyers make decisions.
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