What you'll do
As a Sales Representative with us, you’ll sell life-changing medicines within one of four therapeutic areas: Oncology, Respiratory, Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolic, and other diseases. Using your exceptional selling skills and personable attitude, you’ll build strong and strategic partnerships with healthcare providers across your territory – from clinicians and pharmacists to nurses and consultants.
The part you play in our business will be challenging, yet rewarding, requiring you to use your resilient, collaborative and diplomatic skillsets to make connections. The majority of your work will be field based, and will require you to be highly-organised, planning your monthly schedule, attending meetings and calls, as well as writing up reports.
Why AstraZeneca?
As one of the world’s leading BioPharmaceutical companies, we work to impact lives across R&D through to commercialisation. As a member of our team, you’ll enjoy the freedom to embrace your entrepreneurial spirit, sharing our medicines with customers in your territory and beyond.
Offering a clear development programme, we’ll train you to better understand and sell your product portfolio. And, we’ll enable you to meet your own development goals too. As well as structured support, you’ll benefit from the support of those around you – leaders and peers alike. Whether that’s receiving help from the marketing team or gaining compliance advice, we’ll be there to guide you. This is about doing the right thing, making an impact in the right way. Together.
Success Profile
No matter your experience or background, if you’ve got the passion and drive to progress, we’ll help you to succeed. These are some of the skills and capabilities we look for to ensure that success:
Independent
As this is a mobile role, you’ll be doing a lot of your work on your own. Being independent will be an important skill when delivering on targets. This means staying resilient and motivated in order to work successfully and meet your territory objectives.
Communicative
You’ll be connecting with a range of healthcare professionals with different product needs. Interpersonal and relationship-building skills are vital to your collaborative role. And, where possible, you’ll use those skills to proactively identify new business opportunities.
Flexible
Being on the road, you’ll be able to manage your own time, working around your various tasks. For this, you’ll need to be flexible in the way you work with the ability to adapt to and take advantage of opportunities as they arise.
Responsible
This is a heavily-regulated industry, so working within it means taking responsibility and being particularly observant when selling our products. This means managing your work and territory with diplomacy and in a way that is compliant.
Responsibilities
At AstraZeneca, we turn ideas into life changing medicines. Working here means being entrepreneurial, thinking big and working together to make the impossible a reality. We’re passionate about the potential of science to address the unmet needs of patients around the world. We commit to those areas where we believe we can really change the course of medicine and bring big new ideas to life. As a CVRM ATTR Pharmaceutical Sales Specialist in Albany, NY., you’ll play a pivotal role in channeling our scientific capabilities to make a positive impact on changing patients’ lives.
AstraZeneca's strategy in Cardiovascular Renal Metabolic (CVRM) focuses on ways to reduce morbidity, mortality, and organ damage by addressing multiple risk factors across cardiovascular (CV) disease, life-threatening bleeds, diabetes, and chronic kidney-disease indications. The patient-centric approach is reinforced by science-led life-cycle management programs and technologies, including early research into regenerative methods. The ATTR Team resides in CVRM Therapeutic Area.
Our salesforce is our most significant resource to ensure our medicines benefit appropriate patients and has evolved to reach customers in new ways and bring greater value in the changing environment. The Pharmaceutical Sales Specialist is self-motivated, an expert in creating a tailored customer experience based on account and Health Care Provider (HCP) needs. The PSS is well-versed in the following areas: clinical selling, account selling, access navigation, reimbursement pathways, problem solving, team orchestration / collaboration, and Omni-Channel engagement.
At AstraZeneca, we are taking bold action on climate because we recognize the connection between healthy people and a healthy planet. As part of our flagship Ambition Zero Carbon program, we have committed to a fully electric vehicle (EV) fleet by the end of 2025, which means that all of our drivers will be assigned an EV.
What you’ll do
Provide solutions to our customers by acting as the key business owner of AstraZeneca resources and solutions for a variety of customers, including Health Care Providers, Reimbursement Personnel, Practice Administrators, Centers of Excellence, and Integrated Delivery Network Stakeholders and is accountable for working collaboratively to help ensure customer inquiries are resolved.
Aggregate customer, market data, and insights to effectively apply to multiple channels to drive total selling engagements.
Facilitate clinical dialogue that compels the customer to act on behalf of their patients and engage the entire account to understand any obstacles that exist, to provide appropriate solutions.
Identify shared priorities and leverage knowledge and tactics within full account to develop a strategic territory business plan that drives product demand by meeting the needs of key partners and ultimately their patients to drive superior results.
Make connections with other AstraZeneca resources by orchestrating in a collaborative manner with territory colleagues, reimbursement partners, other field-based and home-office personnel teams to proactively address customer needs and provide appropriate access support. This will be accomplished through a balance of demand generation and facilitation of the account management.
Analyze territory market data and trends to gain insights into the local business environment, drive pull-through and lead engagements with customers.
Lead planning meetings with key partners to solve customer problems.
Apply expertise and knowledge of the marketplace, applicable competitors, industry, and cross-functional activities/plans to anticipate and optimally manage business opportunities and challenges.
Influence and orchestrate multi-channel engagements and omni-channel execution to drive performance.
Demonstrates learning agility, flexibility, and ability to grasp feedback to learn, grow, and evolve for impact through a Growth Mindset
Essential Requirements
Bachelor’s degree
Minimum of 3 years’ experience in specialty pharmaceuticals (CV, rare disease, immunology, oncology / hematology preferred), biotech, or a sales role of similar complexity within the last 2 years
Strong ability to collaborate and work cross-functionally within a matrix environment and can communicate clinical product information
Proven track record of consistent high-performance, and well-versed in navigating and successfully selling to large accounts and key customer segments
Strong scientific acuity in a highly competitive environment
This is a remote position that will support key accounts in an assigned region. Candidate must reside within territory, or within a reasonable daily commuting distance from territory boarder
Ability to travel approximately 75% over a broad geography is required, with the ability to drive and/or fly within the territory
A valid driver’s license and safe driving record
Internal candidate must be at least at Senior PSS / Level 3 at time of consideration
Desirable Requirements
Advanced or Master’s degree
5 or more years’ experience in CV, rare disease states, HemOnc, hospital/IDN, immunology, account management strategy, and new product launches
Broad understanding in patient services, market access, HUB services, specialty pharmacy, reimbursement and/or medical calling on HCPs with respect to a complex product or reimbursement pathway
Demonstrated effective time management, organizational and interpersonal skills to prioritize opportunities
Demonstrated effective leadership, organization, and communication skills
Demonstrated judgment and decision-making capability
Be results oriented with demonstrated time management skills
The annual base salary (or hourly rate of compensation) for this position ranges from $83,000-$210,000. However, base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. In addition, our positions offer a short-term incentive bonus opportunity; eligibility to participate in our equity-based long-term incentive program (salaried roles) or to receive a retirement contribution (hourly roles). Benefits offered included a qualified retirement program [401(k) plan]; paid vacation and holidays; paid leaves; and, health benefits including medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans. Additional details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment. If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.
Please note - Relocation assistance is not available for this position.
Why AstraZeneca?
At AstraZeneca we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work. Where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. There’s no better place to make a difference to medicine, patients and society. An inclusive culture that champions diversity and collaboration, and always committed to lifelong learning, growth and development. We’re on an exciting journey to pioneer the future of healthcare.
So, what’s next?
Are you already imagining yourself joining our team? Good, because we can’t wait to hear from you.
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AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.
Reasons to Join
Thomas Mathisen
There are many things I enjoy when working at AstraZeneca, mainly the Speak up culture, the great colleagues that are in my teams, the great products that AstraZeneca provides to our patients and the challenging conversations I have around our medicines.
Christine Recchio
Working at AstraZeneca has impacted my life in such a positive way. I now have an improved work-life balance through creating my own schedule and time management, I feel a balance that I didn’t have before.
Stephanie Ling
There are a lot of reasons why I enjoy working in AstraZeneca, my colleagues being one of them. My team members and the managers have provided a great deal of guidance in helping me to be more confident in my daily work.
Benefits
There’s a whole spectrum of perks that come with being a Sales Representative. From taking on the responsibility to enjoying opportunities to progress vertically and laterally. Discover some of our benefits:
Progression
We set you up to progress at every stage with structured goals and targets. There are also many routes you can take, from sales team management to product management, and beyond.
Autonomy
The work you do will allow you to take on a lot of responsibility, getting to know your product and owning the way you work – from your schedule and territory, to your strategy and the development of goals.
Performance based
We reward based on your performance. So, by creating a big impact – both on our commercial growth and your personal development – you’ll be rewarded well.
Training
Our training is of a high quality. From onboarding to on the job training, from learning from peers to product training, discover multiple opportunities to develop.
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