Role Description
This position will report to the District Sales Manager and will support the field based selling efforts for XELJANZ and INFLECTRA. This position will require travel and may require some weekly overnights. No relocation is available for this position. The ideal candidate should live within the territory.
Responsibilities
The Specialty Healthcare Representative is responsible for increasing the level of awareness and sales for XELJANZ and INFLECTRA within assigned geography.
Additional responsibilities include:
Accountable to meet or exceed sales and tactical business objectives for XELJANZ and INFLECTRA
Maintains an in-depth and sophisticated knowledge of disease state and product that enable the SHR to engage in meaningful dialog, build credibility and add value when calling on the Rheumatology and Gastroenterology Community.
Responsible for understanding the managed care market dynamics and medical coverage or formulary status for XELJANZ and INFLECTRA and communicating this information to physicians and staff.
Responsible for providing healthcare providers with all relevant information that promotes quality healthcare decisions.
Sells appropriately using only approved selling materials and resources; utilizes appropriate body language when addressing customers; focuses discussion on patient, Health care a professional and the practice.
Engage customers in a way that is meaningful to them so that they find value in the interactions and welcome future engagements.
Establishes and maintains objectives for geography in consultation with district management to assure execution of territorial business plan.
Creates effective call plans that efficiently maximize call reach and frequency.
Employs effective selling techniques, including pre-call planning, effective opening, presentation focus, productive questions, issues identification and effective close.
Completes all call reporting and inventory responsibilities in accordance with current procedures and policies.
Sets aside needed study and certification time, during off-territory hours to, required to learn medical, product, and policy information, as well as to maintain company supplies equipment and records.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
BA/BS Degree
A minimum of 3 years pharmaceutical sales experience
Applicant must have a valid US driver's license and a driving record in compliance with company standards
Candidate must live within 50 miles of territory
Preferred Qualifications:
Strong working knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry with selling experience in Specialty Pharmacy as a key distribution channel
Sales experience in any of the following areas: 1) gastroenterology 2) rheumatology 3) specialty and 4) launch experience
Experience selling a disease-modifying antirheumatic drug
Experience selling to Gastroenterologists, Rheumatologists and/or other specialized physicians
Prior or current Pfizer sales experience, working with Pfizer tools and or systems (i.e. iCUE)
Able to provide documented sales success
Demonstrated performance in highly clinical selling environment
Demonstrated ability to incorporate payer landscape in selling presentations
Ability to provide customer oriented solutions
Demonstrated team work/collaboration
Good organizational, planning skills
Self-motivated/performance accountability
Excellent communication skills
Additional Offer Details:
Last Date to Apply for Job: March 23rd, 2021
Eligible for Employee Referral Bonus: Yes
Geography Details: Fort Worth, Abilene, Denton
Sunshine Act
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Pfizer Inc. develops, manufactures, and sells healthcare products worldwide. It offers medicines and vaccines in various therapeutic areas, including internal medicine, vaccines, oncology, inflammation and immunology, and rare diseases under the Lyrica, Chantix/Champix, Eliquis, Ibrance, Sutent, Xalkori, Inlyta, Xtandi, Enbrel, Xeljanz, Eucrisa, BeneFix, Genotropin, and Refacto AF/Xyntha brands. The company also provides consumer healthcare products that comprise over-the-counter medicines, including dietary supplement products under the Centrum, Caltrate, and Emergen-C names; pain management products under the Advil and ThermaCare names; gastrointestinal products under the Nexium 24HR/Nexium Control and Preparation H names; and respiratory and personal care products under the Robitussin, Advil Cold & Sinus, and ChapStick names. In addition, it offers products that would lose or have lost marketing patent protection; branded generic products; generic sterile injectable products; biosimilars; and anti-infectives under the Lipitor, Premarin family, Norvasc, Lyrica, Celebrex, Viagra, Inflectra/Remsima, Zyvox, Vfend, Revatio, Inspra, Medrol, Sulperazon, Fragmin, Tygacil, Nivestim, and Retacrit, Ixifi Infliximab BS names.
Further, the company is also involved in the contract manufacturing business. It serves wholesalers, retailers, hospitals, clinics, government agencies, pharmacies, and individual provider offices, as well as disease control and prevention centers. The company has collaboration and/or co-promotion agreements with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Astellas Pharma US, Inc., and Oncolytics Biotech Inc.; licensing agreement with BionTech AG; strategic alliance with Verily Life Sciences LLC; and collaboration agreements with Pfizer, Merck & Co., Inc., and Eli Lilly & Company, as well as with Merck KGaA and Nektar Therapeutics to develop a therapy for treating pancreatic cancer. Pfizer Inc. was founded in 1849 and is headquartered in New York, New York.