Role Summary
The Pain Territory Business Manager (TBM) builds and sustains relationships with health care professionals to promote the safe and effective use of JOURNAVX. The TBM serves as a field representative within the community setting and collaborates with Pain Territory Account Managers to drive hospital/health system volume and access, as well as targeted physicians within their territory.
Responsibilities
- Establish meaningful and professional relationships with assigned physicians to raise awareness and drive adoption of JOURNAVX.
- Develop and maintain expertise on the product’s clinical attributes and patient unmet need; educate healthcare professionals on product use in appropriate patients.
- Understand physicians, territory and market dynamics, stakeholder mapping, decision maker relationships, patient protocols, referral networks, access, and drivers & barriers.
- Implement and maintain strategic territory business plans, identify opportunities, and support hospital-based engagement strategies led by PTAMs.
- Drive sales performance; ensure forecasts and budgets meet or exceed territory expectations.
- Collaborate with field team members and headquarters to align business plans, share best practices, and inform initiatives.
- Model ethics and integrity to support a culture of compliance and earn trust with external stakeholders.
Qualifications
- Required: 5+ years of experience in biotech sales; product launch experience highly desired; experience launching in acute pain and engaging diverse physicians; experience with retail pharmacies and managed care pull-through; experience implementing inpatient formularies, protocols, pathways, and order sets; understanding of patient treatment dynamics, care coordination, and influence networks; proficiency in IT tools (e.g., Veeva CRM); experience in a highly matrixed environment.
- Required: Bachelor's degree.
- Preferred: Product launch experience in acute pain and success engaging diverse physicians.
Education
Additional Requirements
- Must establish customer credentials and complete trainings, background screens, drug testing, and vaccinations.
- Must live and work within the territory; may need to reside within a reasonable distance to a major airport.
- Valid driver’s license and in good standing.
- Travel by car or airplane up to 80% of the time and work after hours as required.
- 10–30% overnight travel may be required depending on territory.