CNS/Neuroscience, ADHD Territory Sales Representative - Chicago IL

Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 115,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. is seeking an ADHD Specialist to meet and exceed quarterly and annual sales objectives by executing territory-specific strategies aimed at driving utilization within their defined geography.

The role requires deep knowledge of neuroscience/psychiatry and strong account-based selling skills. The position emphasizes building relationships with healthcare professionals and internal/external stakeholders to remove access barriers, while staying current on payer access

Qualifications

• 2-4 years pharma or life sciences sales experience.
• Strong account-based selling skills with demonstrated success.
• Understanding of prior authorization and payer access programs is a plus.
• Valid driver’s license and be insurable.

Responsibilities

• Achieve territory sales goals on quarterly and annual basis.
• Utilize resources (call activity, speaker programs, payer tools) across face-to-face, virtual, or phone engagements with HCPs & staff.
• Analyze local market dynamics and trends to inform actions.
• Develop and execute territory business and call plans aligned with national objectives.
• Maintain current knowledge of local and national payer access to identify pull-through opportunities.

Skills

Pharma/Life sciences sales

Account-based selling

Neuroscience knowledge

Territory planning

Job description

Collegium Pharmaceutical is building a leading, diversified biopharmaceutical company committed to improving the lives of people living with serious medical conditions. We have a leading portfolio of responsible pain management and neuropsychiatry medications.

POSITION OVERVIEW

The ADHD Specialist responsibility is to compliantly meet and strive to exceed all quarterly and annual sales objectives by executing territory specific sales strategies and plans aimed at driving utilization within their defined geography.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Achieve territory sales goals/targets on quarterly and/or annual basis.
• Applies resources (call activity, speaker programs, payer access tools etc.) against best business opportunities, tracks impact and adjusts accordingly. Utilizes different modes of communication: Face-to face, Virtual, or phone to engage customers (HCPs & staff).
• Analyzes market to understand local dynamics impacting the business and executes against trends that can impact the business.
• Develops and executes territory business plans and call plans aligned with meeting territory and national objectives.
• Keeps current on local and national payer access environment and identifies opportunities for pull-through in their local market.
• Demonstrates thorough understanding of disease state, treatment approaches, competition, and our product, to serve as a valued resource to our customers.
• Partners with key stakeholders internal/external to help remove barriers to access.
• Participates in industry meetings, conventions and exhibits as necessary to build relationships and strong awareness of brand and company.
• Leverages selling model to build a call continuum over time with logical and sequential steps to gain commitment and action from customers.
• Takes ownership by actively seeking out challenges and resolving problems to build solutions that consider implications on the customer and the larger organization.
• Setting high goals for personal and group accomplishment; using measurement methods to monitor progress toward goals; tenaciously working to meet or exceed goals while deriving satisfaction from that achievement and continuous improvement.
• Leveraging business tools to evaluate data using strategic and critical thinking skills to build business / call plans to drive performance
• Ensuring that the customer perspective is a driving force behind business decisions and activities; crafting and implementing service practices that meet customers’ and own organization’s needs.
• Using appropriate interpersonal styles and communication methods to gain acceptance of a product, service, or idea from prospects and clients.
• Keeping the organization's vision and values at the forefront of associate decision making and action; ensure all compliance standards and company policies and procedures are adhered to.

REQUIRED LEADERSHIP BEHAVIORS

At Collegium, how we achieve results is just as important as what we achieve. Our Leadership Behaviors define how we work, collaborate, and succeed as we continue to evolve as an organization.

We group these behaviors into three pillars:

• HEAD
• Think Entrepreneurially
• Take Decisive Action
• Drive Results
• HEART
• Communicate Effectively
• Enable High Performance
• Collaborate with Purpose
• GUTS
• Take Smart Risks
• Compete to Win

Successful candidates will demonstrate these behaviors through their ability to challenge the status quo, build strong relationships, drive results, embrace change, and contribute to a high-performance culture.

COMPETENCIES

• Setting high goals for personal and group accomplishment; using measurement methods to monitor progress toward goals; tenaciously working to meet or exceed goals while deriving satisfaction from that achievement and continuous improvement.
• Acting as a tenacious high-performing sales professional who excels at identifying and seizing new opportunities within their market and demonstrative relentless drive and determination to achieve sales targets and expand market presence.
• Leveraging business tools to evaluate data using strategic and critical thinking skills to build business / call plans to drive performance
• Ensuring that the customer perspective is a driving force behind business decisions and activities; crafting and implementing service practices that meet customers’ and own organization’s needs.
• Using appropriate interpersonal styles and communication methods to gain acceptance of a product, service, or idea from prospects and clients.
• Keeping the organization's vision and values at the forefront of associate decision making and action; ensure all compliance standards and company policies and procedures are adhered to.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 2-4 years of pharmaceutical sales or equivalent life sciences sales experience required and experience in specialty sales strongly preferred: Neuroscience, psychiatry; ADHD/Pediatric psychiatry
• Strong account based selling skills with demonstrated success in prior sales roles
• Working knowledge of strategies and tactics to pull-through local formulary wins.
• Understanding of prior authorization process and experience partnering with key healthcare providers and office personnel on manufacturer sponsored market access support programs preferred.
• Have a valid driver’s license and be insurable.

Pay Range: $115,000 USD - $150,000 USD

Collegium is an equal opportunity employer. It is the policy of Collegium, in all of its relations with its employees and applicants for employment, to base all employment-related decisions upon valid job-related factors, without regard to age, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, race, color, religion, creed, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, military or veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. This policy applies to hiring, training, promotion, compensation, disciplinary measures, access to facilities and programs, and all other personnel actions and conditions of employment. By this policy, Collegium seeks to ensure that all employees have the opportunity to make their maximum contribution to Collegium and to their own career goals. This policy provides for an equal employment opportunity program that will simultaneously serve the requirements of society, the law, sound business practices and individual dignity.

If you have questions or concerns about equal employment opportunities in the workplace, you are encouraged to bring these issues to the attention of the Head of Human Resources. We will not allow any form of retaliation against employees who raise issues of equal employment opportunity. To ensure our workplace is free of artificial barriers, violation of this policy may result in disciplinary action, up to and including termination.