Oncology Therapeutic Specialist

at  AbbVie

Company Description
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 – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.
Job Description
Joining AbbVie means you will be part of a team of outstanding professionals dedicated to making a remarkable impact on patients’ lives. At AbbVie, we conduct ground-breaking science on a global scale every day. AbbVie Canada is one of the Best Workplaces in Canada whereby 98% of our employees are proud to say they work for AbbVie and 96% are proud of how we contribute to the community.
When choosing your career path, choose to be remarkable.
AbbVie is a global, research-driven biopharmaceutical company committed to developing innovative advanced therapies for some of the world’s most complex and critical conditions. The company’s mission is to use its expertise, dedicated people and unique approach to innovation to markedly improve treatments across four primary therapeutic areas: immunology, oncology, virology and neuroscience.
AbbVie Canada is looking to hire an Oncology Therapeutic Specialist to join our commercial sales team. Preferably, this role will be based in Vancouver or Calgary and will cover British Columbia, Alberta and 3 locations in Manitoba, Saskatchewan. The Oncology Therapeutic Specialist’s role will focus on Oncologists treating hematological malignancies.
Our Oncology Therapeutic Specialist develop robust business plans to execute brand strategy and tactics in the field, deliver sales performance and effectively build strong customer relationships. They also support customer needs to maximize short- and long-term sales performance, while placing the patient at the center of any efforts and operating within AbbVie’s business code of conduct, policies and all applicable laws and regulations.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• Bachelor’s degree in in Biological Sciences, Pharmacy, Nursing or equivalent.
• Minimum of three to five years in a Specialty Sales role with a strong clinical background within the pharmaceutical industry. Oncology experience is required, hematology experience is preferable.
• In-depth scientific and therapeutic knowledge in hematology-oncology and the Canadian Hematological Oncology sector required.
• Physician/account-based selling, CHE/educational/training, medical, managed health care or marketing experience preferred.
• Hospital network skills are important.
• Proven track record in sales and solid presentation skills.
• Strong ability to proactively identify customer style / behavior and to quickly adapt all aspects of selling approach.
• Recognized expert with in-depth scientific, hematology product and competitive knowledge.
• Strong business acumen and proficient use of business tools; possesses strategic and critical thinking capabilities.
• Operates effectively in a matrix environment.
• Offers innovative ideas and solutions to maximize business opportunities for the larger organization and anticipates and responds to changes or challenges.
• Viewed as a credible and respected role model and resource among peers. Builds collaborative partnership with district colleagues and team, etc.
• Documented success in leadership and support roles of increased responsibility.
• Understands and leverages findings to develop/enhance sales strategies.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS & ABILITIES:

• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Word, etc.)
• Must be at ease with technology (the use of various tools/systems to perform day-to-day tasks).
• Position requires evening/ weekend work from time to time, including overnight travel.
• Range for expected overnight travel is estimated at 20-30% for ongoing territory management, air travel is expected.
• Valid driver’s license and passport.

AbbVie strives to provide a French working environment for its employees in Quebec. Although as part of its francization program has taken all reasonable steps to avoid imposing the following requirement, advanced amount of knowledge of English / Fluency in English is an essential requirement for the position Business Relations Manager of including, but not limited to, for the following reasons:

• English speaking employees outside the province of Quebec.
• English speaking clients outside the province of Quebec.
• Anglophone region outside the province of Quebec.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and encourages women, Aboriginal people, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities to apply.

• Deliver sales performance, brand KPIs, financial targets, marketing objectives in order to meet or exceed business objectives.
• Create pre-call plans and execute post-call evaluation in order to continuously improve sales performance. Effectively handle objections, concerns with a logical and rational approach, in order to close on every sale call.
• Proactively and continuously support key stakeholders’ needs, expectations and challenges, in order to build trusted relationships on a continual basis.
• Execute a call plan that achieves set metrics and optimizes coverage of key customers, to maximize sales opportunities.
• Continuously build understanding of customer needs and expectations, territory landscape, competitors, market segments/dynamics, accounts, diseases, products and clinical expertise. Share this market intelligence information with district manager and respective team members, in order to achieve alignment, to anticipate environmental change and to optimize brand strategy and its execution.
• Differentiate AbbVie’s value proposition with healthcare providers and identify, develop and maintain disease state experts and speakers/advocates in order to maximize brand performance.
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