Area Business Director

Area Business Director

Description

Description

The Area Business Director (ABD) will cultivate and maintain a strong direct customer-facing presence with gastroenterology healthcare providers and their office/clinic staff. The ABD will help establish us as a company that advances patient care with novel mechanism medicines that meet important clinical needs. If you’d like to help us launch an important first-in-class product to the gastroenterology community, come join us.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

• Achieve sales objectives.

• Focus on accountability, collaboration, compliance, and teamwork to delivering favorable results to healthcare professionals, their patients, and our company.

• Assume accountability for establishing and implementing an effective sales plan that meets (ideally exceeds) sales goals and corporate objectives.

• Collaborate with ABD peers to optimize product opportunities through coordination and information sharing linked to large gastroenterology group practices.

• Work closely with personnel from Marketing, Patient Services, and Market Access to inform on territory experiences and dynamics to facilitate best practices and idea exchanges to optimize product and company success.

• Master clinical data, disease state knowledge, competitive products, and market access information to drive relevant messaging with decision makers and influencers.

• Ensure activities comply with all laws, regulations, and company compliance policies

Qualifications

Qualifications

• A minimum of 5 years of pharmaceutical/biotech industry sales experience.

• Experience in specialty pharmaceutical/biotech sales, gastroenterology, and nephrology preferred.

• Proven track record of success - consistently achieving and/or outperforming sales goals.

• Product launch experience preferred.

• Experience with patient service hubs and specialty pharmacy distribution knowledge.

• Demonstrated experience in competitive markets.

• Ability to engage customers with a keen focus on their needs and experiences.

• An understanding of the laws and regulations applicable to the sales and marketing of pharmaceutical products to physicians and healthcare organizations.

• Ability to understand/develop and implement sales strategies and tactics.

• Strong clinical and scientific acumen to communicate with and influence healthcare professionals and key stakeholders.

• Specific knowledge of and relationships with gastroenterology healthcare professionals, their office/clinic staff, and local patient advocacy groups is a plus.

• Ability to analyze sales data and key performance metrics to identify business opportunities.

• Possess integrity, work with honesty, accuracy, and attention to detail.

• Prior sales management experience a plus.

• Bachelor’s degree.

We currently maintain a policy requiring all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in accordance with CDC guidelines. Newly hired employees must be fully vaccinated prior to their employment start date. We are an equal opportunity employer and will provide reasonable accommodations for those unable to be vaccinated who qualify for exemption in accordance with applicable law.