About the Role
The Neuroscience Sales Specialist will have overall responsibility for meeting or exceeding sales expectations within their assigned geographies in an ethical and compliant manner. They will be responsible for understanding and identifying customer needs, aligning marketing resources, and supporting pull-through activities. The role also involves embodying and communicating Intra-Cellular’s corporate vision of improving the lives of patients suffering from neuropsychiatric disorders.
Responsibilities
- Drives sales performance to ensure sales forecasts are met or exceeded within assigned territory by calling on HCP offices 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 market information with relevant internal 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 informs and builds a business plan based on depth and breadth of customer business needs, resources and products.
- Completes all company and job-related training as assigned within the required timelines.
Requirements
- A minimum of two (2) years of relevant work experience in healthcare sales/account management, or business to business sales, or recently transitioned from Active-Duty Military.
- 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.
- Must have a valid driver’s license and safe driving record.
- Must have strong desire and passion for improving the lives of patients and their caregivers.
- 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.
- Must possess excellent decision-making judgment.
- Must have 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.
- Territories may require some overnight travel depending on geography.
- 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.
- If you are under 18 years of age, you (the candidate) may need to obtain the necessary working papers or other documentation required by state law to start the assignment, as well as get a parent’s consent for the background check.
Skills
- Analytical Reasoning
- Business Behavior
- Clinical Experience
- Communication
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Cultural Competence
- Customer Centricity
- Data Savvy
- Developing Partnerships
- Execution Focus
- Market Knowledge
- Neuroscience
- Pharmaceutical Industry
- Pharmaceutical Sales Marketing
- Problem Solving
- Report Writing
- Sales
- Sales Support
- Sales Trend Analysis
- Strategic Sales Planning
- Learning Aptitude towards AI/Tech
Location
- Palo Alto, California, United States
- Redwood City, California, United States of America
- San Francisco, California, United States of America
Work Type
- Full-time
- Commission
Experience Level
- 2+ years of relevant work experience
- 3+ years of sales experience in specialty pharmaceuticals preferred
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree
About the Company
- At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity.
- Intra-Cellular Therapies, a Johnson & Johnson company, is on the path to be the #1 leader in neuroscience. With an exceptional suite of products and a commitment to transforming patient lives, we are expanding our CAPLYTA® commercial team to support our growing impact in psychiatry.
Equal Opportunity
- Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law.
- We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.
- Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, external applicants please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers , internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.
