Oncology Account Executive – San Francisco

Role Summary

Oncology Account Executive – San Francisco. Field-based role responsible for developing and maintaining strategic business relationships with Oncology departments and practices; increasing education on product benefits/risks, developing new business, and growing sales and market share by achieving the sales plan for the assigned Oncology product and indications.

Responsibilities

• Uses opportunities to understand and address customer needs. Builds strong relationships that provide market intelligence and support development of compliant and innovative programs and initiatives. Builds and maintains relationships across accounts that result in opportunities to benefit patients, physicians, and other HCPs within the geography.
• Consistently partners with in-house and/or cross-franchise leaders, and collaborates with such partners to identify, design and/or adapt appropriate approaches and tactics demonstrating resources within geography.
• Delivers effective on-label technical and scientific presentations utilizing approved data, to appropriately highlight the benefits and risks of the product resulting in sales quota achievement.
• Serve as lead US Commercial contact with targeted accounts in assigned geography and collaborate with all AbbVie and any co-promotion Counterparts including Brand and Strategic Marketing, GPO team, Thought Leader Liaisons, MSLs, and contracted SPPs to provide excellent customer support for physicians to the benefit of their patients. Such support should include site support and addressing any potential customer issues.
• Build, implement, communicate, and regularly update strategic and tactical business plans for targeted accounts. In collaboration with sales leadership and other appropriate AbbVie or Co-Promote partners, facilitate site physician/treatment team training on approved and safe use of AbbVie‚Äôs products. Monitor and report sales progress. Provide routine communications to all internal and external (as applicable) partners.
• Act as AbbVie key point of contact to each account. Respond to or direct customer to the appropriate service or point of contact for their questions or requests and actively follow-up. Take lead in coordinating and ensuring any needed or requested support is delivered in a timely manner and to the satisfaction of the account by the best person within AbbVie or copromote partner.
• Attend and actively participate in local societies, and other HCP meetings when appropriate. Represent AbbVie and assigned products at such venues, build/improve new/existing relationships. Channel key information, developments or findings to internal partners/stakeholders. All communications in these forums are on-label.
• Remain current on all clinical, market, and payer developments, trends, and issues specific to oncology and disease areas.
• Complete all AbbVie required training and maintain adherence to all company policies and OEC/Legal procedures.
• Within assigned accounts and geography, seeks out important information and articulate implications to our business and to our customers‚Äô business‚Äô.
• Transfers knowledge to appropriate internal partners and integrate standard methodologies that have tangible value for customers and patients across assigned indications/brands to benefit the geography and AbbVie Oncology.
• Establishes and maintains a complete understanding of approved product label and disease state knowledge for impactful use with customers.
• Optimizes both external and internal data, resources, and tools to identify sales opportunities and program strategy for customers in assigned territories.
• With the approval of legal/OEC, actively participates in relevant organizational programs in local markets.
• Develops a strong command of available selling resources and tools; fully demonstrates those resources to support selling strategies and maximize impact.
• An essential requirement of the position is to meet health care industry representative credentialing requirements to gain entry into facilities and organizations that are in assigned territory. These HCIR credentialing requirements may include, but are not limited to, background checks, drug screens, and proof of immunization/vaccination for various diseases.

Qualifications

• Business savvy: analytical ability to analyze diverse sets of data using multiple tools and define account/program strategies that drive business objectives.
• Ability to demonstrate an understanding of how to effectively meet customer needs in a complex environment through forward-thinking, innovative strategies that align with the company and customer objectives.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Persistency and grit with strong track record of succeeding in a challenging environment.
• Travel: 40% travel, depending on residence location
• Valid driver‚Äôs license: Ability to pass a pre-employment drug screening test and meet safe driving requirements

Preferred

• Oncology, Specialty, or other pharma experience
• Bachelor‚Äôs degree
• Account Management experience in any industry
• Healthcare industry experience
• MBA or other advanced degree