Pharmaceutical Sales - Territory Manager - GI Specialty

Eli Lilly and Company; Topeka (KS); Remote; USD 87,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company bonus

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Eli Lilly and Company seeks a Territory Manager for IMM GI in Lincoln, NE with remote work options in the USA. You will develop territory plans, manage accounts, and promote our gastroenterology portfolio to healthcare professionals.

Ideal candidates hold a Bachelor’s degree, 2+ years of sales experience, strong communication, and the ability to navigate complex health systems. A US driver’s license and authorization to work in the US are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; license or certification may be state dependent.
• Two+ years of sales experience post-degree.
• Authorized to work in the United States full-time without sponsorship.
• Experience in gastroenterology or specialty sales is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develops a strong understanding of territory and reimbursement landscape; use insights tools to adapt.
• Navigate accounts and stakeholders to become a trusted partner in healthcare.
• Listen actively and tailor dialogues to office staff; engage across the office at the right level.
• Demonstrate clinical knowledge of our portfolio and therapy area; engage with accounts.
• Promote products via patient-centered dialogue; apply SWOT to prioritize opportunities.
• Collaborate with field and internal peers to create a coordinated customer experience.
• Use analytics to meet customer needs and achieve sales goals while adhering to policies.

Skills

Gastroenterology exp

Sales experience

Account-based selling

Learning agility

Bilingual skills

Territory proximity

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Graduate degree preferred

Job description

At Lilly, the work is demanding because patients are waiting. We unite caring with discovery to help make life better for people around the world, knowing that every decision, every detail, and every day matters. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, our over 50,000 employees around the globe take on complex challenges to discover and deliver life-changing medicines, strengthen how health is understood and managed, and support the communities we serve. This is hard, urgent, selfless work—but it’s work worth doing. If you’re driven by purpose and ready to bring your best to work that truly matters for patients, we invite you to join us.

Territory Manager – IMM GI – Lincoln NE

Location: USA:Remote; Includes: Lincoln, NE; Wichita KS; Topeka, KS

Company Overview

For more than a century, we have stayed true to a core set of values—excellence, integrity, and respect for people that guide us in all we do. We also are committed to investing in our employees and supporting a culture of well‑being —through competitive pay, comprehensive employee benefit programs, and training and development resources. #WeAreLilly

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 moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis. Our goal is to make life better for people around the world by offering a solution to prevent or stop this disabling disease. That means raising the bar for treatment expectations in the field of gastroenterology, as we develop and launch innovative treatment solutions that may reduce the burden of diseases.

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

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 ever‑changing 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.
• Utilizes patient‑focused clinical dialogue to engage with every member of the office at the right level.

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.
• Prioritizes opportunities and tactics using Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT).

EXECUTION / RESULTS

Sales Activity

• Utilizes all business analytic resources available to meet the needs of customers and achieve sales goals while acting in a consistent manner with all internal policies and procedures 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 US driver’s license and acceptable driving record is required.
• Qualified applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full‑time basis. Lilly will not provide support for or sponsor work authorization or visas for this role, including but not limited to F‑1 CPT, F‑1 OPT, F‑1 STEM OPT, J‑1, H‑1B, TN, O‑1, E‑3, H‑1B1, or L‑1.

Additional Skills/preferences

• Experience within gastroenterology, buy and bill, and/or specialty sales experience is preferred.
• 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.
• Bilingual skills as aligned with territory and customer needs
• Strong Learning agility, self‑motivated, team focused, emotionally intelligent and influential.
• Must live within 30 miles of the territory boundary.

Lilly is dedicated to helping individuals with disabilities to actively engage in the workforce, ensuring equal opportunities when vying for positions. If you require accommodation to submit a resume for a position at Lilly, please complete the accommodation request form (https://careers.lilly.com/us/en/workplace-accommodation) for further assistance. Please note this is for individuals to request an accommodation as part of the application process and any other correspondence will not receive a response.

Lilly is proud to be an EEO Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, ancestry, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

Our employee resource groups (ERGs) offer strong support networks for their members and are open to all employees. Our current groups include: Africa, Middle East, Central Asia (AMECA), Black Employees at Lilly (BE@Lilly), Chinese Culture Network (CCN), EnAble, Evolve, Lilly Indian Network (LIN), Organization of Latinx at Lilly (OLA), Pride (LGBTQ+ Allies), Veterans Leadership Network (VLN) and Women’s Initiative for Leading at Lilly (WILL).

Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location. The anticipated wage for this position is

$87,000 - $159,500

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). 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.

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