The Neuroscience Sales Specialist (NSS), Detroit Metro, MI - responsible for understanding and identifying customer needs, aligning marketing resources and supporting pull-through activities.
The NSS has overall responsibility for meeting or exceeding sales expectations within their assigned geographies in an ethical and compliant manner.
They are also accountable for embodying and communicating the corporate vision of improving the lives of patients suffering from neuropsychiatric disorders.
The NSS will develop superior product and disease state knowledge that allows them to compliantly engage in in-depth clinical dialogue with healthcare professionals. Additionally, they will have responsibility for the creation of local strategic and tactical plans, differential resource allocation, and accountability for effective application of budget and expense management within their assigned territory.
This is the Detroit Metro territory which ~ covers from Detroit North along the lake shore to Roseville, West to Warren and Redford, South to Dearborn Heights, Dearborn and back to Detroit. Candidates need to ideally live in the territory or no more than about 15 miles outside of the geography.
We are looking for sales professionals who have a passion for patients, tenacity for results, ability to adapt and evolve, entrepreneurial thirst for working in an energizing and winning culture.
Job Responsibilities
- Following compliance guidelines, drives sales performance to ensure sales forecasts are met or exceeded within assigned territory by calling on HCP offices, psychiatrist, neurologists and Mental Health Community Centers both in-person and virtually.
- Effectively uses assigned budgets to achieve territory objectives. Customizes discussions and client interactions based on customer’s needs in a compliant and ethical manner
- Maintains current understanding of local market, practice structures, evolving customers, and key influencers. Routinely shares such information with relevant internal Intra-Cellular stakeholders.
- Provides input into resource allocation decisions across customers/region. Identifies and selects programs/resources available and appropriate for each customer, practice, and/or system.
- Works with Regional Business Manager and key stakeholders to develop a local business plan that ensures achievement of all business objectives. Capitalizes on formulary approvals and other business opportunities through effective implementation of the strategic plan.
- Collaborates with other Neuroscience Sales Specialists on common objectives and sharing of best practices.
- Accountable for providing timely and accurate administrative management of work hours, sales call data, customer objectives, communication responses, synchronization, sample and expense reporting.
- Effectively inform and build a business plan based on depth and breadth of customer business needs, resources and products.
Job Requirements
- 2+ years of previous sales experience in pharmaceuticals, biologics, or medical device sales required; 3+ years of sales experience in specialty pharmaceuticals preferred
- Launch, antipsychotic, and/or bi-polar sales experience highly preferred.
- Must have Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university as well as a valid driver’s license and safe driving record.
- Must act with high integrity and always in accordance with the Company’s Compliance policies and procedures.
- Must have strong sense of self-motivation, initiative, and entrepreneurial thirst, excellent decision-making judgment, strong teaming/collaboration and cross-functional skills
- A proven track record of success in learning and adapting to an evolving environment such as Covid-19 in order to overcome obstacles and challenges
- Must have ability to be agile and adapt to the changing telemedicine/virtual environment.
- Ability to analyze data/metrics to assess progress against objectives as well as diagnose performance issues and identify new opportunities.
- Experience establishing new customer relationships and communicating technical information to a diverse customer audience.
- Work hours may include meetings scheduled outside of normal working hours.
- Some domestic travel to corporate headquarters, training and sales meetings will also be required on a periodic basis.
- Must be able to perform all essential functions of the position, with or without reasonable accommodation
Company offers competitive base salary, uncapped bonus potential, RSU's, generous vacation, company car, outstanding medical benefits etc.
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