Dermatology Territory Account Specialist – Albany, NY

Role Summary

This is a field-based and remote opportunity supporting key accounts in Albany, NY. As a Territory Account Specialist (TAS), you’ll lead with purpose—crafting personalized experiences that reflect the unique needs of each account and Health Care Provider (HCP). You will be the primary point of contact, build meaningful connections, identify shared priorities, and navigate solutions that link customers to Novartis resources—with the goal of improving patient outcomes. Success in this role comes from balancing demand generation with strategic account engagement and requires expertise in clinical and account-based selling, access navigation, collaborative problem-solving, team orchestration, and omni-channel engagement.

Responsibilities

• Naviagte 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: Experience (within the last 5 years) in pharmaceutical, biotech, healthcare, or similarly structured industries with large, geographically dispersed sales teams.
• Preferred: Candidates from other complex sales environments such as medical devices, diagnostics, life sciences services, insurance, consumer health, or B2B sectors where strong field leadership and customer engagement are central. For Associate Level opportunities, applicants with limited prior sales experience are encouraged to apply.
• Required: Proven track record of consistent high performance and success selling to large accounts and key customers.
• Required: Self-starter with analytic abilities to seek out, prioritize, and apply relevant information to solve problems to meet the needs of key customers, while demonstrating ethical leadership and compliance with company policies and laws.
• Required: Reside within the 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.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university.

Additional Requirements

• Travel and driving: Ability to travel 60-80% across a broad geography. Driving is an essential function; must have a fully valid and unrestricted driver’s license.