Regional Sales Director (RSD)
Key Responsibilities
- Lead regional launch planning and execution to ensure successful market entry and sustained product uptake
- Translate national brand strategy into actionable regional business plans and field priorities
- Achieve or exceed sales goals, market share targets, and key performance metrics at launch and beyond
- Monitor market dynamics, customer feedback, and competitive intelligence; adjust strategy in real time
- Drive data-driven accountability and disciplined execution
Team Leadership / Coaching
- Recruit, onboard, develop, and retain territory managers
- Lead, coach, and motivate a team of approximately 8β12 territory managers
- Establish and maintain disease state, clinical, and product knowledge
- Evaluate performance through regular field contact and coach for skill/career development
- Foster a high-performance culture focused on accountability and continuous improvement
- Build succession plans and talent pipelines
Customer / Market Engagement
- Build relationships with key healthcare providers, health systems, IDNs, and strategic accounts
- Partner on key customer interactions, access challenges, and account strategies
- Support pull-through with IDNs, organized customers, and priority accounts
- Share customer insights with internal stakeholders
Qualifications
- Bachelorβs degree required; advanced degree preferred
- 8+ years pharmaceutical/biotech sales experience
- 3+ years people leadership in district/regional manager role
- Prior launch experience required; first-launch/startup biotech strongly preferred
- Strong business planning, analytical, and coaching skills
- Proven specialty sales success exceeding performance goals
- Leadership qualities: coach, accountability, bias for action, able to work in ambiguity, cross-functional influence
Preferred
- Experience in cardiovascular/nephrology/hypertension or related specialties
Travel
- Up to 60% travel (often outside local area; overnight)
Benefits / Pay
- Standard company benefits incl. medical, dental, vision, time off, and 401K; eligibility for incentive plans contingent on performance
- US salary range: $180,000 - $215,000