Pharmaceutical Sales - Territory Manager - Rheumatology Specialty

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Sound interesting to you? Read on to find out more about how you can join our sales team, where you will enjoy meaningful work, build a successful career and make important contributions to our patients' lives.

Lilly is committed to helping people suffering from Autoimmune diseases. Our mission is to make life better for people around the world living with debilitating immune-mediated diseases in dermatology and rheumatology. That means raising the bar for treatment expectations in the field of immunology, as we develop and launch innovative treatment solutions that may reduce the burden of diseases such as psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, non-radiographic axial spondylarthritis and alopecia areata.

Together we embrace the challenge to redefine what's possible.

The Lilly Rheumatology Specialty Territory Managers will be responsible for account-based selling to health care providers (HCPs) who prescribe and influence the treatment for the disease states represented in the Lilly rheumatology and dermatology portfolios. This includes HCPs in dedicated rheumatology and dermatology practices, as well as representatives in key hospital accounts, including rheumatologists, dermatologists, immunology fellows, immunology educators, chief internal medicine residents, chief family practice residents and residents involved in rheumatology/dermatology rotations. You will build relationships with key customers in the rheumatology and dermatology space to increase Lilly’s ability to drive adoption of our new and existing therapies. They will also identify and develop business relationships with state and local advocacy groups, teaching institutions, key influencers, and managed care organizations. They will be viewed as a credible expert and resource.

BUSINESS OWNERSHIP

Territory Management

• Develops a strong understanding of territory and reimbursement landscape and utilizes appropriate business insights tools to analyze and adapt to business needs.

Account Management

• Systematically navigates the everchanging healthcare environment to understand accounts and impact key stakeholders to become a trusted partner.

SELLING SKILLS / CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE

Dialogue Agility

• Actively listens and adapts to verbal and non-verbal customer prompts throughout the call.

Medical Integrity

• Demonstrates high learning agility to understand clinical information / disease state, our product portfolio, and the therapeutic marketplace.

• Uses this information to engage with every member of an office / account.

Selling Skills

• Promotes the entire product portfolio by planning for and engaging in a patient centered dialogue with customers.

• Utilizes our selling model prior to and during conversations with customers to help them identify appropriate patients.

EXECUTION / RESULTS

Sales Activity

• Utilizes all business analytic resources available to meet the needs of customers and achieve sales goals while acting in a manner consistent with all internal policies and procedure and PhRMA code.

Partner Collaboration

• Collaborate effectively with others both field facing and internal peers to create a coordinated and positive customer experience.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree.

• Professional certification or license required to perform this position if required by a specific state.

• Valid driver’s license and acceptable driving record.

• Legally authorized to be employed in the United States.

Additional skills/preferences:

• Two or more years of sales experience (pharmaceutical or non-pharmaceutical) after completion of an undergraduate college degree.

• Other work experience following the completion of undergraduate degree, or a graduate degree (e.g., Masters, MBA, PharmD).

• Demonstrated business ownership skills, selling/customer experience skills, and execution/results.

• Account based selling experience. Ability to identify and engage staff members in accounts.

• Strong background in navigating within complex integrated health systems .

• Extensive experience or thorough understanding of specialty pharmacy distribution model.

• Selling injectable/infusion molecules in a complex reimbursement environment.

• History of working with multiple cross functional partners.

• Strong Learning agility, self-motivated, team focused, emotionally intelligent and influential.

• Must live within 30 miles of the territory boundary.

Additional Information:

• Ability to provide secure and temperature-controlled location for product samples may be required.
• Lilly currently anticipates that the base salary for this position could range from between $79,500-$140,800 and will depend, in part, on the successful candidate’s qualifications for the role, including education and experience. Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance). In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities).Of course, the compensation described above is subject to change and could be higher or lower than the range described above. Further, Lilly reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion and Lilly’s compensation practices and guidelines will apply regarding the details of any promotion or transfer of Lilly employees.