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Cardiovascular Territory Account Specialist – Bowling Green, KY

Novartis
Remote friendly (Paducah, KY)
United States
$77,000 - $245,700 USD yearly
Sales

Role Summary

This is a field-based and remote opportunity supporting key accounts in an assigned geography. You will serve as the primary point of contact, build connections, identify shared priorities, and link customers to resources to improve patient outcomes. The role balances demand generation with strategic account engagement, leveraging clinical and account-based selling, access navigation, collaborative problem-solving, and omni-channel engagement.

Responsibilities

  • Navigate and resolve challenges within accounts to ensure customer needs are met with effective, tailored solutions.
  • Build a strategic territory plan by aligning shared priorities and applying insights and tactics that drive product demand and support better patient outcomes.
  • Partner proactively with territory teammates, field teams, and home-office colleagues to address customer needs and deliver access support.
  • Apply deep knowledge of the market, competitive landscape, and cross-functional dynamics to anticipate opportunities and respond to challenges with agility.
  • Use territory data and market trends to uncover local insights, support pull-through efforts, and lead impactful customer engagements – virtually or in person.
  • Facilitate planning sessions with key stakeholders to solve complex challenges and collaborate across functions to meet customer needs with urgency.
  • Deliver real-time access support and work closely with Patient Specialty Services (PSS) to ensure seamless customer experience.
  • Harness digital tools and omni-channel strategies to personalize outreach and engage customers across both virtual and face-to-face settings.

Qualifications

  • Required: Bachelor’s degree completed from a 4-year college or university.
  • Required: Experience in pharmaceutical, biotech, healthcare, or similarly structured industries with large, geographically dispersed sales teams within the last 5 years; willingness to apply experience from other complex sales environments (e.g., medical devices, diagnostics, life sciences services, insurance, consumer health, B2B) where field leadership and customer engagement are key; for Associate Level opportunities, applicants with limited prior sales experience are encouraged to apply.
  • Required: Proven track record of consistent high performance and experience selling to large accounts and key customers.
  • Required: Self-starter with analytical abilities to gather and apply information to solve customer problems, plus ethical leadership and compliance with policies and laws.
  • Required: Reside within the territory or within a reasonable daily commuting distance of 50 miles from the territory border; 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.
  • Preferred: Experience across therapeutic groups, disease states, account management strategy, and new product launches; broad understanding of patient services, market access, buy and bill, specialty pharmacy, reimbursement, or medical calling on HCPs for sophisticated products or reimbursement pathways.