Oncology Area Business Leader – Los Angeles, CA

Novartis • Los Angeles, CA

2d • Remote

About The Position

This is a field-based and remote opportunity supporting a sales team in an assigned geography. Novartis is unable to offer relocation support for this role. Please only apply if this location is accessible to you. Company will not sponsor visas for this position. The Oncology Area Business Leader is responsible for leading and developing a group of Oncology Sales Specialists dedicated to meeting and exceeding sales objectives and to enabling Novartis to reimagine cancer. As one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world and a pioneer in oncology, we are committed to peak performance, improving the quality of life, and embracing and demonstrating diverse backgrounds, cultures, and talents to achieve competitive advantage.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required from 4-year college or university.
• Leadership experience (see leveling guidelines below) in pharmaceutical, biotech, healthcare, or similarly structured industries with large, geographically dispersed sales teams.
• We also welcome candidates from other complex sales environments such as medical devices, diagnostics, life sciences services, insurance, consumer health, or B2B sectors, especially where strong field leadership and customer engagement are central to success.
• Internal Sales Associates are eligible, if successfully completed Novartis Emerging Leaders Development Program (ELDP), or 2+ years of pharmaceutical/biotech sales management experience within the last two years prior to joining the company.
• 3+ years’ experience as a first-line sales manager with strong, demonstrated strategic thinking and enterprise mindset.
• Demonstrated success in attracting, developing, and retaining diverse talent while building high-performing, collaborative teams.
• Proven ability to drive sales growth, lead cross-functional partnerships, and execute strategic initiatives in complex, multi-regional environments.
• Experience managing field organizations through change, innovation, or growth is highly valued.
• Candidate must reside within territory, or within a reasonable daily commuting distance of 100 miles from the territory border.
• Ability to travel 60-80% over a broad geography is required, with the ability to drive and/or fly within the territory.
• Must have a valid driver’s license.
• Driving is an Essential Function of this Role: Meaning it is fundamental to the purpose of this job and cannot be eliminated.
• Because driving is an essential function of the role, you must have a fully valid and unrestricted driver’s license to be qualified for this role.
• The company provides reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified individuals with medical restrictions if an accommodation can be provided without eliminating the essential function of driving.

Nice To Haves

• Experience & success leading sales teams in promotion to large practices, hospitals, IDN’s & SoC customers, with an understanding of reimbursement.

Responsibilities

• Recruit, develop, retain, mentor, and lead a diverse team of individuals to successfully deliver on strategic sales objectives and establish a cadence of accountability for the team, communicating, and supervising KPIs and engaging all levels of performance on the team.
• Models the way for all associates by encouraging a shared vision, communicating clear expectations, promoting an environment of accountability, enabling others to act, and optimizing or advancing processes by challenging the status quo.
• Lead and mentor to ensure Oncology Sales Specialists are effective orchestrators of the total account call by coordinating the deployment resources to efficiently plan, communicate, and follow through to ensure customer needs are met with vitality.
• Develop, implement, and cultivate a customer-centric business plan in collaboration with both customer engagement and cross-functional partners to optimize customer experience and product demand.
• Serve as a member of the Regional Leadership team that is proactively supplying to the development of overall region goals, business execution, team development and culture.
• Embed a hard-working, customer-centric culture where teams are engaged business owners that take effective results-oriented action.
• The Area Business Leader champions an environment where team members are encouraged to speak up, solve problems, collaborate, experiment, and fail forward.
• Possess in-depth knowledge in the areas of clinical, access and reimbursement, eye for business, territory management, and appropriate use of omni-channel marketing tools to effectively develop and mentor members of the team during regular field contacts and one-on-one mentor sessions.
• Leverage analytics platforms to advise decisions and identify areas of risk and opportunity to ensure the Oncology Sales Specialists are deploying resources like strategic face-to-face meetings, omni-channel resources, total office calls and cross-functional partners.

Benefits

• health, life and disability benefits
• a 401(k) with company contribution and match
• a variety of other benefits
• a generous time off package including vacation, personal days, holidays and other leaves

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level