Role Summary
Specialty Account Manager (SAM) to execute commercial activities for assigned geographies, establish relationships with customers, and ensure a successful sale of our products. This role is field-based and will require gaining access to customers in a clinic or hospital setting while also maximizing the ability to engage through digital channels. The SAM will be a disease category expert and product champion, providing account management support and business knowledge of the local landscape to assess key stakeholders and future marketplace trends.
Responsibilities
- Proficient in both virtual and live customer engagements
- Develop a comprehensive and effective territory business plan aimed at achieving and exceeding quarterly and annual goals
- Promote within approved labeling in a comprehensive, fair, and ethical manner consistent with industry guidelines
- Develop strong customer relationships by understanding the customer’s needs
- Serve as a resource/consultant to customers and staff regarding payer policies and processes (eligibility, benefit verification, prior-authorization, appeals/denials)
- Maximize use of marketing resources to maintain and develop customer relationships to grow confidence to prescribe Axsome medications
- Communicate territory activity accurately and timely as directed by management
- Provide feedback to sales, leadership, marketing, and other internal departments about changing environment and results
- Complete all training classes in a timely manner
- Complete administrative duties accurately and timely
- Manage efforts within assigned promotional budget
- Collaborate across all corporate functions
- Attend medical congresses and society meetings as needed
- Ensure timely access for patients through patient services and savings programs
- Overnight travel as indicated by business needs
- Additional responsibilities as assigned
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university
- Minimum of 5 years of field customer experience and/or account management; minimum of 3 years Healthcare Professional experience with relevant CNS experience
- 5 years of consistent top performance in pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical sales
- Migraine/CNS experience strongly preferred
- Demonstrated experience delivering outstanding results
- Launch experience strongly preferred
- Must live in the territory’s geography
- Experience strategizing within cross-functional teams to achieve business goals
- Proven ability to manage multiple tasks concurrently under aggressive timelines
- Comfortable with uncertainty and high expectations
- Patient support services experience a plus
- Strong digital marketing aptitude
- Strong interpersonal, presentation, and communication skills
Education
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university
Additional Requirements
- Frequent driving, including extended periods behind the wheel
- Prolonged sitting and standing as part of daily job functions
- Ability to lift and carry up to 30 lbs regularly
- Overhead reaching required to close and secure liftgates or similar equipment