Rare Disease Business Manager – Alpha-1 (supporting Key West, FL to Melbourne, FL and surrounding areas)
How you will contribute:
- Achieve sales quotas by driving new patient starts, sales in outpatient infusion centers and hospitals, and retention of patients on Takeda augmentation treatment.
- Focus on healthcare professionals (Pulmonology, Allergy/Immunology, Respiratory Therapists, select Internal Medicine/Primary Care): educate HCPs on Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency brands; build a compliant National Sales and Marketing Strategy and a territory business tactical plan.
- Call on prospective customers; deliver sales presentations; provide technical/administrative product information and demonstrations; maintain compliance with promotional and expense policies.
- Partner with home office, Marketing/Brand, and National/Corporate account teams to drive pull-through of product sales.
- Use Microsoft applications and Takeda’s customer management system.
- Conduct community education events for HCPs and patients; may work occasional nights and weekends.
Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree (minimum); clinical sales background.
- 5+ years of successful relevant healthcare experience.
- Live within territory; manage border-to-border.
- Work cross-functionally with patient services, customer service, marketing, market access, contracts, national accounts, hospitals, and operations.
- Understand customer motivations/needs; strong organizational and territory planning skills.
- Experience with payor and reimbursement challenges.
- Ability to excel as team and individual contributor; use and interpret data to create sales strategies; influence HCPs to prescribe.
- Preferred: experience with specialty biologics (injections/infusions) and specialty pharmacies.
- Desirable: plasma derived therapies, rare diseases, or biotech.
- Travel: overnight could be ~50%; remaining local; occasional weekends.
- Must be 18+ with valid driver’s license and acceptable driving record; authorization to drive company leased vehicle or rental.
Application instructions:
- Apply via the “Apply” button (acknowledgement of application processing with Takeda).