HypoPara Clinical Specialist

Taylor Strategy Partners; Portland (OR); On-site; USD 171,000 - 209,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company car/allowance

Commissions/bonus eligibility

Job summary

Ascendis Pharma is seeking a field-based pharmaceutical sales professional to drive growth in rare disease and injectable products within a dynamic, global organization. The role requires building strong relationships with pharmacists, hospital admins, physicians, and health networks, while navigating complex distribution hubs and formulary processes.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of specialty sales experience and a proven track record of high performance in a changing environment, with

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred.
• 5+ years of sales experience in specialty pharma, rare disease, or injectable products.
• Ability to adapt in a dynamic startup-style environment.
• Experience with complex distribution systems and HUB services.
• Proven track record of high performance and current strong results.
• Experience selling to hospitals, universities, health networks, and physicians.

Responsibilities

• Engage in customized discussions with customers in a compliant, ethical manner.
• Drive sales performance to meet or exceed forecasts.
• Use budgets to drive therapy and territory goals.
• Understand market, practice structures, and key influencers; share insights.
• Identify business opportunities with customers and accounts.
• Analyze data to evaluate performance and find opportunities.
• Develop business plans with leaders to meet goals and formulary considerations.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to provide resources and pull-through.
• Maintain administrative excellence: calls, responses, expense reporting.

Skills

Sales experience

Relationship-building

Data analysis

Strategic planning

Ethical conduct

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Advanced degree preferred

Job description

Description

Ascendis Pharma is a dynamic, fast-growing global biopharmaceutical company with locations in Denmark, Europe, and the United States. Today, we're advancing programs in Endocrinology Rare Disease and Oncology.

Here at Ascendis, we pride ourselves on exceptional science, visionary leadership, and skilled and passionate colleagues.

Guided by our core values of Patients, Science, and Passion, we use our TransCon drug development platform to fulfill our mission of developing new and potentially best-in-class therapies to address unmet medical needs.

Our culture fosters a place where skilled, adaptable, and highly resourceful professionals can truly make their mark. We offer a dynamic workplace for employees to grow and develop their skills.

Responsibilities:

• Use your product knowledge to engage in customized discussions and in person interactions based on customer’s needs in a compliant and ethical manner
• Drive outstanding sales performance that ensures sales forecasts are met or exceeded.
• Effectively use assigned budgets to drive therapeutic and territory expectations
• Maintains current understanding of local market, practice structures, business models, and key influencers. Routinely shares such information with relevant Ascendis stakeholders (e.g., Sales and Commercial Leaders)
• Works with appropriate customers and accounts to understand practice structure, business model, key influencers, network structure, customer needs and to identify business opportunities
• Can effectively and routinely use a variety of analytical tools to understand and evaluate the business to best determine how to accomplish sales objectives and apply appropriate resources in an effective and ethical manner
• Work with leaders to develop a business plan that ensures achievement of all goals and delivery on all sales objectives. Also work to understand formulary approvals and other opportunities and how they fit into the effective implementation of the business plan
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to deliver appropriate resources and pull-through within the territory
• Demonstrate administrative excellence to ensure competent management of work hours, sales call data, customer objective responses, sample and expense reporting, and other administrative items

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred
• 5+ years of previous sales experience in a specialty sales environment, preferably rare disease and injectable experience, adult endocrinology disease state experience preferred
• Ability to work in an ambiguous, changing environment; start-up experience preferred
• Experience working with complex distribution systems and HUB services to ensure a smooth customer experience
• Proven history of strong performance and demonstrated current strong performance
• Experience in a new product launch environment preferred
• Experience selling into hospital and university systems, health networks, or other large healthcare organizations in addition to individual physicians’ offices
• Experience in specialty pharmaceuticals or rare disease is a plus
• A track record of navigating multiple stakeholders to get a product approved and used within a large organization
• Strong relationship-building skills - comfortable engaging pharmacists, hospital administrators, and physicians, and tailoring communication to each
• Demonstrated experience working with patient services in a distribution HUB and specialty pharmacies
• Must be a self-starter with excellent decision-making, judgment, and ethics
• Proven ability to collaborate with peers and across functions
• Experience working in a specialty drug (rare/orphan disease) environment to ensure customers’ and patients’ needs are addressed in a compliant way
• Demonstrated ability to develop a successful business plan based on customer and patient needs
• Ability to analyze data/metrics to assess progress against objectives, diagnose performance issues, and identify new opportunities
• Experience establishing new customer relationships and communicating technical information in a highly adaptable, ethical, and effective manner

Ability to meet all credentialing requirements at all times, as updates or repeat screens may be necessary depending on territory, health system/customer demand, and company policy

Valid driver’s license and safe driving record

Overnight travel required

The annual base salary for this position is $190,000. Actual salary will vary based on various factors such as the candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role. In addition, some positions may include a company car or car allowance and eligibility to earn commissions/bonus based on company and/or individual performance.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.