Oncology Sales Specialist, Breast / Women’s Cancer – Washington, DC

Novartis • Laurel, DC

10h • Remote

About The Position

This is a field-based and remote opportunity supporting key accounts 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 Sales Specialist will handle delivering sales performance and promoting product(s) within the oncology, hematology or rare disease portfolio of Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world and a pioneer in oncology. You will have a deep level of commercial insight who are curious, life-long learners, lead among their peers, proactively and continuously aspire to serve customer needs, and readily adopt digital tools to couple customer and data insights to improve sales opportunities in competitive markets. Job Description Key Responsibilities: Collaborate cross functionally in each geography as ONE team, while demonstrating influential leadership amongst peers and internal partners to build and achieve shared goals. Display an elevated level of self-awareness, a passion for learning, an ability to inspire those around you, a willingness to challenge the status-quo and embrace change to optimize execution. Embody a high-level of confidence to deliver messages in a clear and compelling way to customers, optimally handle objections, and close every call with a commitment to action to inspire changes in behavior. Continuously demonstrate deep understanding of territory market landscape, competitors, market segments / dynamics, product, clinical data, and anticipate environmental changes and challenges to optimize execution. Develop and execute a call-plan to achieve goals and improve access and sales opportunities, while promoting a highly technical and innovative product portfolio to a sophisticated audience. Strong understanding of the local healthcare system landscape, EMRs, pathways, and PA-claims processing and embody an account management mentality with the ability to develop and execute account level plans. Comfort in using sales data reporting tools to understand trends and coupling with customer insights to identify territory and customer growth opportunities in a constantly evolving environment. Demonstrated use of social media platforms to capture customer insights to drive tactical execution and improve customer experience. Strong agility to move between non-digital to digital settings, and strategic use of non-personal tools to deliver customized customer experiences.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required from 4-year college or university.
• Experience (see leveling guidelines below) in pharmaceutical, biotech, healthcare, or similarly structured industries with large, geographically dispersed sales teams within the last 5 years. 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.
• Strong ability to collaborate, work cross-functionally within a matrix environment, can communicate clinical product information, has a validated track-record of consistent high-performance, and is proficient in navigating and successfully selling to large accounts and key customer segments.
• Self-starter with analytic abilities to seek out, prioritize, and apply relevant information to solve problems to meet the needs of key customers, while also demonstrating ethical leadership and ability to champion an environment that promotes ethical behavior and compliance with company policies & laws.
• Candidate must reside within territory, or within a reasonable daily commuting distance of 50 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.

Nice To Haves

• Experience across therapeutic groups, disease states, account management strategy, and new product launches.
• Broad understanding in patient services, market access, buy and bill, specialty pharmacy, reimbursement and/or medical calling on HCPs with respect to a sophisticated product or reimbursement pathway.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate cross functionally in each geography as ONE team, while demonstrating influential leadership amongst peers and internal partners to build and achieve shared goals.
• Display an elevated level of self-awareness, a passion for learning, an ability to inspire those around you, a willingness to challenge the status-quo and embrace change to optimize execution.
• Embody a high-level of confidence to deliver messages in a clear and compelling way to customers, optimally handle objections, and close every call with a commitment to action to inspire changes in behavior.
• Continuously demonstrate deep understanding of territory market landscape, competitors, market segments / dynamics, product, clinical data, and anticipate environmental changes and challenges to optimize execution.
• Develop and execute a call-plan to achieve goals and improve access and sales opportunities, while promoting a highly technical and innovative product portfolio to a sophisticated audience.
• Strong understanding of the local healthcare system landscape, EMRs, pathways, and PA-claims processing and embody an account management mentality with the ability to develop and execute account level plans.
• Comfort in using sales data reporting tools to understand trends and coupling with customer insights to identify territory and customer growth opportunities in a constantly evolving environment.
• Demonstrated use of social media platforms to capture customer insights to drive tactical execution and improve customer experience.
• Strong agility to move between non-digital to digital settings, and strategic use of non-personal tools to deliver customized customer experiences.

Benefits

• US-based eligible employees will receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes health, life and disability benefits, a 401(k) with company contribution and match, and a variety of other benefits.
• In addition, employees are eligible for 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
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees