Oncology Sales Representative - Sacramento, CA
Merck
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Job summary
Merck in the United States is seeking an Oncology Sales Representative to engage with customers, educate stakeholders, and drive to meet or exceed territory sales goals across Sacramento, Fresno, Reno and surrounding areas. This field-based role requires travel and a passion for oncology.
You will collaborate with the Oncology Customer Team and use approved resources to present patient-centered rationale for our products, while building trusted relationships with accounts, care teams, and KOLs.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree with at least 6 years of sales experience OR a minimum of high school diploma with at least 8 years of equivalent experience.
- Experience in healthcare/scientific field with oncology exposure preferred.
- Valid driver’s license and ability to drive.
- Travel the amount of time the role requires, including overnight travel 10-15%.
- Residency within the district or reasonable distance.
Responsibilities
- Attain or exceed sales goals for the territory.
- Collaborate with territory counterparts to ensure seamless customer experience and build relationships.
- Communicate a patient-centered rationale for oncology products to stakeholders.
- Understand cancer pathways and treatment options affecting patients.
- Analyze buying environment and multiple drug distribution channels.
- Review patterns for outpatient vs inpatient purchases and hospital contracts.
- Develop short- and long-term plans with local team and district manager.
- Ask insightful questions to understand customer priorities and needs.
- Ensure consistent customer experience across divisions and share learnings.
Skills
Education
Job description
Grow and accelerate your career with our Oncology Sales organization and join a team that’s driven to make an impact on cancer patients! We take a customer-centric approach by leveraging emerging digital technologies and data analytics to better understand our patients' needs. Developing your career with us will allow you to join a group of passionate professionals, driven by purpose and determined to help save and improve lives.
Help us continue to grow and define the oncology market of today and tomorrow with a driven, customer-focused, and collaborative team. As an Oncology Sales Representative, you will be a key member engaging with customers to address identified needs, educating key stakeholders about our oncology products, communicating with the broader oncology community, and actively working to achieve or exceed assigned sales goals within your territory.
- This is a field-based sales position that is responsible for the SACRAMENTO, CA territory.
- This territory includes FRESNO, CA and RENO and CARSON CITY, NV.
- Candidates must be willing to travel to visit with customers in-person and for national sales meetings/industry conferences.
- Travel (%) and overnight requirements vary based on candidate location.
- Working with the other team members in the territory, attain or exceed the assigned sales goals for the geography.
- In collaboration with territory counterparts, ensure customers have a seamless experience with our company Oncology, meet with key stakeholders to understand practice structure, business model, and key influencers, while building business relationships and trust to uncover and comprehend their needs.
- In customer engagements, employ approved resources and messaging to communicate a compelling, patient-centered rationale for our company Oncology products in their indicated uses.
- Possess knowledge of the workings of the extended care team/multidisciplinary team, cancer staging, possible treatment options, pathways, and guidelines associated with different tumors/diseases, recognizing the impact of those options on patients.
- Analyze and identify trends in a complex buying environment, including multiple channels of drug distribution (Oncology group purchasing organizations, wholesalers, and specialty pharmacies).
- Review and evaluate patterns for products purchased and prescribed (outpatient vs in-patient infusion, as part of hospital or GPO contract, etc.)
- Comprehend complex accounts and local market interdependencies to proactively develop and execute short- and long-term plans in collaboration with the local team and district manager (known as the Oncology Customer Team Leader).
- Ask insightful questions to understand customer priorities and needs to support engaging and relevant conversations about the product portfolio.
- Ensure a consistent customer experience across our Company’s division and functional areas and share key learnings to support customer needs by effectively communicating and collaborating with the in-scope customer team: Customer Team Leader, Key Account Manager, Nurse Educator, Field Reimbursement Associate, Medicare Account Executive, and more.
- Bachelor’s degree with at least 6 years of sales experience OR a minimum of high school diploma with at least 8 years of equivalent experience.
- Equivalent experience can be professional sales experience, work experience in the healthcare/scientific field with oncology experience being strongly preferred (including pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical devices) that is not sales related, professional marketing experience, or military experience.
- Valid driver’s license and able to drive a vehicle.
- Travel the amount of time the role requires, including overnight travel 10 - 15%.
- Reside in or within a reasonable distance to the district.
- 2+ years of oncology field-based experience selling an oncology therapeutic to oncology customers.
- Oncology field sales or clinical oncology experience.
- Documented history of strong performance in a sales/marketing or oncology clinical role.
Account Management, Immuno-Oncology Sales, Nursing Education, Oncology, Oncology Care, Oncology Nursing, Oncology Research, Oncology Sales, Sales
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The salary range for this role is
$142,400.00 - $224,100.00
This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, government requirements, and business or organizational needs.
The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable.
We offer a comprehensive package of benefits. Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days. More information about benefits is available at https://jobs.merck.com/us/en/compensation-and-benefits .
We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance
Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails.
Regular
No relocation
No
25%
Remote
Not Indicated
Yes
N/A
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