Respiratory Sales Specialist, New Orleans, LA (Baton Rouge, LA/New Orleans, LA)
Verona Pharma
- New Orleans, LA
- $140,000-170,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Responsible for representing Verona’s products and services to a customer base, generating and growing sales, and consistently achieving or exceeding sales targets within a specific geographic area in a professional, compliant, ethical, and effective manner.
- Establish relationships beyond the targeted HCPs in the office (Office administration, respiratory therapists, nurses, etc.)
- Utilize your deep understanding of disease states, relevant competitor products, and the issues and opportunities unique to each geography to tailor interactions with specific customers.
- Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of Patient Access Programs & Specialty Distribution Models (i.e., Specialty Pharmacy/HUBs).
- Support KOL advocacy and execute on a company-sponsored speaker program plan.
- Use networks and relationships to enhance partnerships by creating opportunities for direct contact between key customers and home office staff.
- Consistently utilize Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software tools to document interactions with HCPs in the territory.
- Leverage technology best practices, share technology solutions with others, and use communication technology to increase efficiency and productivity of territory.
- Communicate frequently with other Respiratory Sales Specialists across the country and cross-functional counterparts such as Marketing, Sales Ops, Market Access, Field Reimbursement, Training, and Medical Affairs to create alignment of business plan, focus on strategic drivers, and sharing best practices.
- Ability to orchestrate calls and adjust content of sales presentations with HCPs regardless of location (i.e., in-office, virtual, web, or convention).
- Ability to utilize data to drive territory-level decision making and routing to achieve optimal frequency on assigned targets.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent, with a minimum of 3 years of pharmaceutical/ biotech sales experience.
- Experience in a specialty pharmacy, alternative channel distribution, and/or HUB experience preferred.
- While pulmonology experience is not mandatory, it is desired, as is experience calling on specialty HCP targets under any therapeutic area.
- Experience with hospital/IDN is a plus.
- Proven track record of success in exceeding goals in sales territory.
- Previous product launch experience in a highly competitive environment.
- Outstanding interpersonal and relationship building skills, as well as influencing, and negotiating skills.
- Self-motivated, ambitious, polished, polite and determined.
- Strict compliance with Verona’s commercial compliance policy, and all applicable federal and state laws and guidance relating to product promotion and information dissemination.
- Ability to meet any requirements set by healthcare customers and their facilities for access to those facilities (e.g., vaccination requirements, mask requirements, etc.).
- Travel is 80-90% depending on where you will reside.