Senior Therapeutic Area Specialist, Neuroscience, MS - Portland OR

Role Summary

The Senior Therapeutic Area Specialist (TAS) in Neuroscience (MS) engages HCPs to drive adoption of BMS medicines for appropriate patients, delivering a differentiated customer experience through scientific dialogue and CE^3. This field-based role builds credibility with regional thought leaders and community physicians, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure safe, compliant, and impactful use of BMS products.

Responsibilities

• Promotes approved indications of BMS products within a defined territory to meet or exceed sales targets in a compliant manner.
• Creates demand by articulating the clinical and scientific rationale for product use in appropriate patients.
• Maintains/grows a high level of scientific expertise across assigned products and therapeutic areas.
• Prepares and implements comprehensive territory and account plans.
• Uses CE^3 and other tools to derive insights and inform call plans; provides feedback for continuous improvement.
• Demonstrates scientific expertise and presents information to HCPs in a medically accurate manner.
• Conducts in-office presentations and discusses product-related scientific information consistent with the label.
• Organizes external speaker programs and coordinates scheduling and logistics.
• Maintains knowledge of emerging data for approved indications and supports real-time medical inquiries via Medical on Call.
• Collaborates with other field teams to ensure optimal Customer Experience for HCPs and shares insights internally.
• Complies with all laws, regulations, and policies governing the conduct of BMS.

Qualifications

• Advanced scientific degree; or 5+ years of pharmaceutical/biotech experience in healthcare sales, MSL, HCP, or nursing.
• Ability to communicate scientific/clinical data accurately to support patient care.
• Strong credibility with key customers and a customer-centric mindset to create a differentiated Customer Experience.
• Neurology experience preferred.
• Proven account management, selling competencies, and track record of meeting/exceeding goals.
• Ability to work cross-functionally with a positive, collaborative mindset.
• Strong promotional/selling skills with a proven performance track record.

Skills

• Customer/commercial mindset
• Patient centricity
• Scientific agility
• Analytical capability
• Technological agility
• Teamwork/enterprise mindset

Education

• Advanced scientific degree preferred.

Additional Requirements

• Ability to operate a company-provided vehicle; must meet Qualified Driver requirements (ages, license, driving risk level).