HypoPara Clinical Specialist
Ascendis Pharma
August 22, 2026
On-site
Boise, ID
Medical Affairs
Responsibilities:
- Use product knowledge to engage in customized, in-person discussions with customers based on their needs in a compliant and ethical manner.
- Drive sales performance to meet or exceed sales forecasts.
- Use assigned budgets to drive therapeutic and territory expectations.
- Maintain understanding of the local market, practice structures, business models, and key influencers; share insights with relevant stakeholders.
- Work with customers/accounts to understand practice structure, business model, key influencers, network structure, customer needs, and identify business opportunities.
- Use analytical tools to evaluate the business and determine how to accomplish sales objectives and apply resources ethically and effectively.
- Develop and execute a business plan with leaders to achieve goals; understand formulary approvals and other opportunities and how they support the plan.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to secure appropriate resources and pull-through within the territory.
- Demonstrate administrative excellence (work hours, sales call data, customer responses, sample/expense reporting, and related items).
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred.
- 5+ years specialty sales experience (preferably rare disease and injectable; adult endocrinology preferred).
- Ability to work in an ambiguous, changing environment (startup experience preferred).
- Experience with complex distribution systems and HUB services.
- Proven strong performance.
- New product launch experience preferred.
- Experience selling into hospital/university systems, health networks, and large healthcare organizations.
- Specialty pharmaceuticals/rare disease a plus.
- Track record navigating multiple stakeholders for approval and adoption in large organizations.
- Strong relationship building with pharmacists, hospital administrators, and physicians; tailored communication.
- Experience with patient services in a distribution HUB and specialty pharmacies.
- Self-starter with excellent decision-making, judgment, and ethics.
- Ability to collaborate across functions.
- Compliant selling in specialty drug (rare/orphan disease) environments.
- Ability to build a successful business plan based on customer and patient needs.
- Ability to analyze data/metrics to assess progress and identify opportunities.
- Ability to establish new customer relationships and communicate technical information ethically and effectively.
- Ability to meet all credentialing requirements at all times.
- Valid driver’s license and safe driving record.
- Overnight travel required.
- Use product knowledge to engage in customized, in-person discussions with customers based on their needs in a compliant and ethical manner.
- Drive sales performance to meet or exceed sales forecasts.
- Use assigned budgets to drive therapeutic and territory expectations.
- Maintain understanding of the local market, practice structures, business models, and key influencers; share insights with relevant stakeholders.
- Work with customers/accounts to understand practice structure, business model, key influencers, network structure, customer needs, and identify business opportunities.
- Use analytical tools to evaluate the business and determine how to accomplish sales objectives and apply resources ethically and effectively.
- Develop and execute a business plan with leaders to achieve goals; understand formulary approvals and other opportunities and how they support the plan.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to secure appropriate resources and pull-through within the territory.
- Demonstrate administrative excellence (work hours, sales call data, customer responses, sample/expense reporting, and related items).
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred.
- 5+ years specialty sales experience (preferably rare disease and injectable; adult endocrinology preferred).
- Ability to work in an ambiguous, changing environment (startup experience preferred).
- Experience with complex distribution systems and HUB services.
- Proven strong performance.
- New product launch experience preferred.
- Experience selling into hospital/university systems, health networks, and large healthcare organizations.
- Specialty pharmaceuticals/rare disease a plus.
- Track record navigating multiple stakeholders for approval and adoption in large organizations.
- Strong relationship building with pharmacists, hospital administrators, and physicians; tailored communication.
- Experience with patient services in a distribution HUB and specialty pharmacies.
- Self-starter with excellent decision-making, judgment, and ethics.
- Ability to collaborate across functions.
- Compliant selling in specialty drug (rare/orphan disease) environments.
- Ability to build a successful business plan based on customer and patient needs.
- Ability to analyze data/metrics to assess progress and identify opportunities.
- Ability to establish new customer relationships and communicate technical information ethically and effectively.
- Ability to meet all credentialing requirements at all times.
- Valid driver’s license and safe driving record.
- Overnight travel required.