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
Be part of fulfilling our ambition to be world leaders in Oncology. We are already the fastest growing team within AstraZeneca and across the industry, and there are countless new indications and targets in our exciting pipeline!
As an Oncology Account Specialist in the St. Paul, MN territoryfor the Lung Cancer tumor team you’ll play a pivotal role in channeling our scientific capabilities to make a positive impact on changing patients’ lives.
The territory includes St. Paul, MN and Western WI.
Major Responsibilities
Account Planning
Identifies account dynamics including drivers of decision-making
Learns account priorities for the specific tumor type and local trends and ecosystem relevant to clinical practice
Conducts opportunity assessment across patient journey (including diagnosis, treatment, patient management), to advise business priorities, encompassing HCP & account perspectives
Advises account plans using knowledge of treatment decision making, prior experience from interactions in the account, and analytics in coordination with brand and analytics teams
Develops tumor-focused business plan encompassing account and territory-level priorities based on key insights
Engagement and Facilitation
Identifies multi-disciplinary partners within account across the patient journey, in line with priorities defined in business plan
Develops engagement plans focused on key account partners; shares plans with cross-functional peers and manager to ensure collective AZ approach is aligned, well-coordinated, and increases appropriate engagement
Works with peer field team members to identify cross-brand engagement opportunities, where appropriate
Engages with relevant partners within an account, as appropriate, in order to address tumor priorities
Provides critical input into geography-level priorities and plans based on deep knowledge of opportunities and barriers in accounts across the territory
Clinical Education
Educate and engage HCPs in dialogue about efficacy, safety and dosing profiles for FDA-approved indications to support on-label prescribing for appropriate patients
Respond to customer objections using approved messaging and/or tools to connect customer to supporting resources/personnel
Educate and engage HCPs about unmet needs within a given disease state and the relevance of specific biomarkers to defined patient populations aligned to approved AZ medicines
Educate on approved companion diagnostic tests and importance of appropriate patient identification to advise targeted treatment
Deliver upstream compliant education regarding diagnosis, treatment, and/or patient management (beyond product) using approved materials
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree
3+ years of pharmaceutical sales experience
A valid driver’s license and safe driving record
Preferred Qualifications
Lung sales experience
Track record of strong sales goal achievement
Track record of building customer relationships through a variety of mediums (in person and virtual)
Demonstrated clinical selling skills and business acumen in complex selling environment
Demonstrated collaboration, entrepreneurialism, flexibility and tenacity
Ability to learn, analyze, understand and convey complex information
Together, as ambitious experts, we’re building the future and leading the next wave of transformation for our patients, business and Oncology.
Why AstraZeneca?
At AstraZeneca when we see an opportunity for change, we seize it and make it happen, because any opportunity no matter how small, can be the start of something big. Delivering life-changing medicines is about being entrepreneurial - finding those moments and recognizing their potential. Join us on our journey of building a new kind of organization to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we’re opening new ways to work, pioneering cutting edge methods and bringing unexpected teams together.
Are you already imagining yourself joining our team? Good, because we can’t wait to hear from you!
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.
AstraZeneca requires all US employees to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 but will consider requests for reasonable accommodations as required by applicable law.
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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