Role Summary
The Account Specialist role promotes a product to community practices and health systems. The field-based position involves building and maintaining relationships with accounts/departments such as neurology, pain medicine, physical medicine and rehabilitation, primary care, and pharmacy, across community/private practices, community-based hospitals, academic medical centers, and government accounts.
Responsibilities
- Promote a product to meet/exceed sales goals in community/private practices as well as hospitals/health systems.
- Comply with all company policies, required reports, requests and promotional compliance and effectively manages AbbVie field assets.
- Identify/uncover customer needs (training, clinical, operational, reimbursement) and address with appropriate AbbVie resources.
- Provide expert delivery of anatomical/procedural information and training, including the appropriate use of anatomical terminology to train injection paradigms/postures while highlighting various anatomical and injection insights and considerations.
- Provide education and clinical/injection training for residents, fellows, and other key hospital personnel.
- Collaborate with other Account Specialists to promote the product for approved indications and execute individual, department, or group resident/fellow trainings within hospital/health system accounts.
- Effectively utilize AbbVie's sales and data resources to enhance productivity and growth of AbbVie products while implementing the U.S. Marketing Plan.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in health, sciences, pharmacy or business-related field preferred or relevant and equivalent industry experience required
- Relevant and equivalent industry experience required in lieu of a bachelor’s degree is at least five (5) years of technical experience with three (3) or more years of experience within sales preferred and a high school diploma/GED required
- Ability to manage a complex sell, learn procedural, technical, clinical, and anatomical information quickly and communicate/present/train to a variety of audiences
- Ability to lift/pull 25–100 lb. training models and meet necessary hospital credentialing/vaccination requirements
- Ability to travel adequately to cover territory, as well as overnight attendance at scheduled training events and sales meetings
- Documented history of strong sales performance, preferably in a clinical/technical/consultative sales role with multiple decision makers is preferred
- HCIR credentialing requirements to gain and maintain entry into facilities and organizations in the assigned territory; must be in good standing or eligible to obtain these credentials
- Valid driver’s license and ability to pass a pre-employment drug screening and meet safe driving requirements
- Driving a personal auto or company car or truck, or a powered piece of material handling equipment