Pharmaceutical Sales - Territory Manager - GI Specialty
About the role
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 - Charlottesville VA Location: USA:Remote; Includes: Lynchburg, VA; Fairfax, VA; Warrenton, VA.
Responsibilities
- 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).
- 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.
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.
Skills
- 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