Role Summary
This position requires performance driven individuals with strategic problem- solving skills, high business acumen that can work collaboratively with multiple stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have sales experience in pediatric endocrinology clinics and/or comparable experience in rare disease. Experience launching a first in class therapy and building new therapeutic markets desired.
Responsibilities
- Achieving area sales objectives, market penetration, new patient starts, and revenue targets on a quarterly & annual basis
- Driving demand through clinical selling and education to referring and treating health care providers focusing on skeletal conditions. This includes cold calling on key accounts as needed for access.
- Implementing an effective business plan to guide strategy, tactics and track progress
- Developing and maintaining excellent working relationships with all key stakeholders including Pediatric Endocrinology, Pediatric Orthopedics, Genetics, and key referring physicians that could include Pediatrics
- Actively participating in disease awareness efforts and burden/natural history of disease through professional society meetings (local, state, regional), as assigned.
- Working with other members of the Skeletal Dysplasia brand team, and facilitating appropriate collaboration with other functions, such as MSLs, Market Access team, Compliance, and other internal stakeholders, as needed
- Becoming an expert in the clinical data and verbalizing its significance to all stakeholders
- Proactively providing business insights to internal partners as to the clinical practices of assigned accounts
- Acting in compliance within a highly regulated industry and consistent with training, policies, guidelines, and their own best judgment while adhering to all company policies assigned to the Account Manager position
- Ability to work with ambiguity and remain agile as organization needs evolve
Qualifications
- Required: Bachelor’s degree
- Preferred: At least 5 years of sales experience in biotech/rare disease involving specialty products that are technically challenging and first in class
- Preferred: Experience with office-based selling in complex model of referral health care providers to prescriber health care providers in newly created market
- Preferred: Experience working in a field team model with field based clinical support and reimbursement hub model
- Preferred: Pediatric Endocrinology and/or Pediatric Orthopedics strongly preferred
- Preferred: Experience in new product launches and preferably with first in class product
- Preferred: Experience in a role that works directly with patients/families
- Preferred: Experience and committed to long sales cycle to ensure medical home is created
Skills
- Account management
- Organizational
- Analytical
- Problem-solving
- Flexibility and adaptability in a startup environment
- Goal orientation and professional, compliant conduct
Education
- Bachelor’s degree required
Additional Requirements
- Must be able to work some evenings and weekends, as needed, for educational events (both in person and virtual)
- Depending on geography, must have the ability to manage a multi-state territory with diverse customer base
- Overnight travel is required and will range from 40% to 60% depending on geography and territory
- Advanced virtual skillset required to balance travel demands with opportunities to meet healthcare providers and/or caregivers virtually
- The territory will include: Tampa, West Palm Beach, Ft Lauderdale, Miami, Naples, Fort Myers, Sarasota and Puerto Rico