Specialty Representative - Virology HCV - (Greater Seattle, Tacoma, WA, Alaska, N. CA)

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 79,000 - 193,000; Full time

Job summary

AbbVie Specialty Representative – Virology HCV is a field-based role covering Greater Seattle and Tacoma, WA, Alaska, and Northern CA. You will execute brand strategy, manage a territory, build customer relationships, and support sales performance while adhering to AbbVie policies and regulations.

The position requires traveling approximately 20% of the time, possessing strong scientific and sales background, and driving outcomes with a patient-centered approach.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in health, sciences, pharmacy or business-related field preferred or equivalent industry experience required.
• Proactively identifies customer style / behavior and adapts quickly all aspects of selling approach.
• Proven track record of success in selling and solid presentation skills.
• Strong business acumen and proficient use of business tools; possesses strategic and critical thinking capabilities.
• Influences others and builds collaborative partnerships across teams.

Responsibilities

• Deliver sales performance, brand KPIs, financial targets, marketing objectives to meet or exceed.
• Create pre-call plans with SMART objectives and execute post-call evaluations to improve performance.
• Proactively serve customer needs and build trusted relationships to achieve win-win agreements.
• Develop and execute call plans to maximize access and sales opportunities with key customers.
• Share market intelligence with in-field and brand teams to optimize strategy and execution.
• Differentiate AbbVie’s value proposition with health providers and identify disease state experts.

Skills

Sales skills

Presentation skills

Strategic thinking

Relationship building

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Business tools

Job description

Specialty Representative - Virology HCV - (Greater Seattle, Tacoma, WA, Alaska, N. CA)

• Full-time
• Salary Min: 78500
• Therapy Area: Other Specialties
• Salary Max: 192500
• Workday Global Grade: 16
• Travel: Yes, 20% of the Time
• Compensation: USD 78,500 - USD 192,500 - yearly

About AbbVie

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com . Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook , Instagram , X and YouTube.

This role is field-based and candidates should live within a reasonable distance from Seattle or Tacoma as the primary cities. Talent will be hired at a level commensurate with experience. Territory will includeGreater Seattle and Tacoma WA, Alaska, and Northern CA.

Execute brand strategy and tactics in field, sales performance, effectively manage assigned territory and targeted accounts, build strong customer relationships and customer needs solving capability to maximize short and long term sales performance placing the patient into the center of any efforts and operating within AbbVie’s business code of conduct, policies and all applicable laws and regulations.

Responsibilities

• Deliver sales performance, brand KPIs, financial targets, marketing objectives, etc. in order to meet or exceed on those objectives.
• Create pre-call plan using SMART objectives and execute post-call evaluation in order to continuously improve sales performance. Effectively handle objections, misunderstandings, concerns and consistently gain logical and reasonable calls to action in order to close on every sales call.
• Proactively and continuously aspire to serve customer needs, customer expectations and challenges in order to build trusted customer relationships and to achieve win-win agreements between AbbVie and customers.
• Develop and execute a call plan that achieves set call metrics and optimizes coverage and frequency to key customers in order to maximize access and sales opportunities.
• Continuously build understanding on customer needs and expectations, territory market landscape, competitors, market segments/dynamics, accounts, disease, product, clinical and sales expertise and share this market intelligence information with in-field team, brand team and sales manager to achieve alignment, to anticipate environmental changes and challenges and to optimize brand strategy and its execution.
• Differentiate AbbVie’s value proposition with health providers assigned and identify, develop and maintain disease state experts and speakers/advocates in order to maximize brand performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in health, sciences, pharmacy or business-related field preferred or relevant and equivalent industry experience required
• Relevant and equivalent industry experience required in lieu of a bachelor’s degree is at least five (5) years of experience with three (3) or more years of experience within the pharmaceutical/health/science industry preferred and a high school diploma/GED required
• Proactively identifies customer style / behavior and adapts quickly all aspects of selling approach.
• Proven track record of success in selling and solid presentation skills. Offers innovative ideas and solutions to maximize business opportunities to address challenges. Understands and leverages findings to develop sales strategies.
• Demonstrates in-depth scientific, therapeutic, product, and competitive knowledge and is recognized as an expert resource by all relevant stakeholders. Strong business acumen and proficient use of business tools; possesses strategic and critical thinking capabilities. Operates effectively in a matrix environment. Provides impact with ideas for the larger organization and anticipates and responds to changes.
• Influences others & is viewed as a credible and respected role model and resource among peers. Builds collaborative partnership with district colleagues and matrix team, etc. Leads by example; Consistently displays positive behaviors and peer coaching through changing and challenging environments.
• Documented success in leadership and support role of increased responsibility at the district, region and/or organizational levels.
• Preferred: Proven track record of success in sales performance within respective therapeutic areas. Commercial pharmaceutical industry experiences such as physician/account based selling, training, managed health care or marketing preferred. English language proficiency verbally and in writing (for all non-English speaking countries).
• An essential requirement of your position is to satisfy all applicable health care industry representative (HCIR) credentialing requirements to gain and maintain entry into facilities and organizations that are in your assigned territory. You must also be in good standing and/or eligible to obtain these credentials.
• These HCIR credentialing requirements may include, but are not limited to, background checks, drug screens, proof of immunization/vaccination for various diseases, fingerprinting and specific licenses required by individual state or cities. Please remember that you are solely responsible for ensuring that you satisfy all HCIR credentialing requirements and for any associated liability for failing to do so. AbbVie has resources available to you to help answer questions you may have.
• Valid driver’s license: Ability to pass a pre-employment drug screening test and meet safe driving requirements.
• Ability to travel adequately to cover territory, as well as overnight attendance at scheduled training events and sales meetings.
• Driving a personal auto or company car or truck, or a powered piece of material handling equipment.

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state orlocal law:

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Companybelieves ingood faith it will pay for this role at thetimeofthis posting based on the job grade for this position.Individualcompensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographiclocation,andwemayultimatelypaymore or less than the posted range. This range may bemodifiedin thefuture.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick),medical/dental/visioninsurance and 401(k) to eligibleemployees.
• This job is eligible toparticipatein our short-term incentiveprograms.

Note: No amount of payis considered to bewages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, anddeterminable.Theamountandavailabilityof anybonus,commission, incentive, benefits, or anyother form ofcompensation and benefitsthat are allocable to a particular employeeremainsin the Company'ssoleandabsolutediscretion unless and until paid andmay bemodifiedat the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent withapplicable law.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.