About the Role
As a Senior Pharmaceutical Sales Specialist for the Advanced Specialty Team, you’ll play a pivotal role in channeling our scientific capabilities to make a positive impact on changing patients’ lives.
Responsibilities
- Develop and demonstrate knowledge of clinical disease states and treatment guidelines.
- Effectively communicate product information to healthcare professionals.
- Analyze trends and develop strategic business plans, leveraging understanding of the market landscape, dynamics, and patient access challenges.
- Provide solutions to customers by creating a tailored customer experience based on account and HCP needs.
- Identify opportunities for process improvement, demonstrate openness to new ideas, and seek innovative approaches to sales and customer engagement.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree
- 3+ yrs of demonstrated Sales or Commercial experience or a combination of: pharmaceutical, healthcare, scientific, clinical, institutional, or related industry / settings within the healthcare ecosystem
- Experience in account planning and/or complex reimbursement model OR internal AZ certification
- A valid driver’s license and safe driving record
Skills
- Advanced Therapeutic Area Expertise: Experience and expertise in highly specialized therapeutic areas
- Customer Engagement: Proven ability to engage with senior-level healthcare professionals, including specialists and hospital administrators.
- Innovative Sales Strategies: Experience in developing and implementing innovative sales strategies in a highly specialized market.
- Clinical Acumen: Exceptional ability to understand and communicate cutting-edge scientific research and clinical data.
- Strategic Partnerships: Experience in establishing and nurturing strategic partnerships with healthcare institutions and research organizations.
- Business Acumen: Proficiency in advanced data analysis and the use of analytics to drive sales performance.
Location
- San Francisco, CA/Bay Area
Work Type
- Sales
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree
Salary/Compensations
- $76,935.20 to $204,973.20
Benefits
- Eligibility for various incentives
- Short-term incentive bonuses
- Equity-based awards for salaried roles
- Commissions for sales roles
- Qualified retirement programs
- Paid time off (i.e., vacation, holiday, and leaves)
- Health, dental, and vision coverage
About the Company
- AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company.
- We focus on discovering, developing and commercialising prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious diseases.
- At AstraZeneca, we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work.
- Where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science, challenge convention and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit.
- To embrace differences and take bold actions to drive the change needed to meet global healthcare and sustainability challenges.
- There is no better place to make a difference in medicine, patients, and society.
- An inclusive culture where you will connect different thinking to generate new and valuable opportunities.
- Where you will find a commitment to lifelong learning, growth and development for all.
- Our Inclusion & Diversity (I&D) mission is to create an inclusive and equitable environment where people belong, using the power of our diversity to push the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines to patients.
- Inclusion and diversity are fundamental to the success of our company, because innovation requires breakthrough ideas that only come from a diverse workforce empowered to challenge conventional thinking.
- We’re curious about science and the advancement of knowledge.
- We find creative ways to approach new challenges.
- We’re driven to make the right choices and be accountable for our actions.
- As an organisation centred around what makes us human, we put a big focus on people.
- Across our business, we want colleagues to wake up excited about their day at the office, in the field, or in the lab.
- Along with our purpose to bring life-changing medicines to people across the globe, we have a promise to you: to help you realise the full breadth of your potential.
- Here, you’ll do work that has the potential to change your life and improve countless others.
- And, together with your team, you’ll shape a culture that unites and inspires us every day.
- This is your life at AstraZeneca.
Equal Opportunity
- Our mission is to build an inclusive environment where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and employees.
- In furtherance of that mission, we welcome and consider applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of their protected characteristics.
- If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please complete the corresponding section in the application form.
