Job Description

Overview

Neuroscience Area Business Leader Michigan and Wisconsin. This is a field-based and remote opportunity supporting a sales team in an assigned geography. Novartis is unable to offer relocation support for this role. Please only apply if this location is accessible for you. The Area Business Leader (ABL) is an enterprise thinker responsible for directing a team of Territory Account Specialists in the delivery of tailored customer experiences based on account and Health Care Provider (HCP) needs and clinical dialogue that compels the customer to act on behalf of their patients to generate demand in the relevant area. Through regular face-to-face in-field interactions, the Area Business Leader mentors their team to work cross-functionally with Healthcare Providers, Key Accounts and Systems of Care (SoC) to identify shared priorities, deliver clinical value and provide Novartis resource messaging in a patient-centered approach thereby establishing Novartis as a preferred customer partner. The Area Business Leader instills a culture of high-performance and accountability that encourages and motivates their team to complete the brand strategy and tactics.

Key Responsibilities

• Recruit, develop, retain, mentor, and lead a diverse team of individuals to successfully deliver on strategic sales objectives and establish a cadence of accountability for the team, communicating, and supervising KPIs and engaging all levels of performance on the team.
• Models the way for all associates by encouraging a shared vision, communicating clear expectations, promoting an environment of accountability, enabling others to act, and optimizing or advancing processes by challenging the status quo.
• Monitor and mentor to ensure Territory Account Specialists are effective orchestrators of the total account call by coordinating the deployment resources to efficiently plan, communicate, and follow through to ensure customer needs are met with vitality.
• Develop, implement, and cultivate a customer-centric business plan in collaboration with both customer engagement and cross-functional partners to optimize customer experience and product demand.
• Serve as a member of the regional leadership team that is proactively supplying to the development of overall regional goals, business execution, team development and culture.
• Embed a hard-working, customer-centric culture where teams are engaged business owners that take effective results-oriented action. The Area Business Leader champions an environment where team members are encouraged to speak up, solve problems, collaborate, experiment, and fail forward.
• Possess in-depth knowledge in the areas of clinical, access and reimbursement, eye for business, territory management, and appropriate use of omni-channel marketing tools to effectively develop and mentor members of the team during regular field contacts and one-on-one mentor sessions.
• Leverage analytics platforms to advise decisions and identify areas of risk and opportunity to ensure the Territory Account Specialists are deploying resources like strategic face-to-face meetings, omni-channel resources, total office calls and cross-functional partners.

Essential Requirements

• Bachelor's degree.
• 2+ years sales leadership experience in pharmaceutical/biotech or other consumer products in a highly regulated environment. Internal Sales Associates are eligible, if successfully completed Novartis Emerging Leaders Development Program (ELDP), or 2+ years of pharmaceutical/biotech sales management experience within the last two years prior to joining the company.
• Demonstrated leadership experience in sophisticated selling environments (physician, managed markets and/or limited physical access accounts), with shown success (e.g., sales awards, top third ranking, successful performance ratings, etc.) selling biopharmaceutical products to customers in the specialty & institutional setting.
• Candidate must reside within territory, or within a reasonable daily commuting distance of 100 miles from the territory border. Ability to travel 60-80% over a broad geography is required, with the ability to drive and/or fly within the territory. Must have a valid drivers license.

Desirable Requirements

• Experience & success leading sales teams in promotion to large practices, hospitals, IDNs & SoC customers, with an understanding of reimbursement for both the out-patient (payer) and in-patient (Diagnosis Related Group, Medicare).

Leveling Guidelines

The position will be filled at a level commensurate with experience.

Compensation

• Area Business Leader I: $138,600 and $257,400/year
• Area Business Leader II: $138,600 and $257,400/year
• Senior Area Business Leader: $160,300 and $297,700/year

The final salary offered is determined based on factors like, but not limited to, relevant skills and experience, and upon joining Novartis will be reviewed periodically. Novartis may change the published salary range based on company and market factors. Your compensation will include a performance-based cash incentive and, depending on the level of the role, eligibility to be considered for annual equity awards. US-based eligible employees will receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes health, life and disability benefits, a 401(k) with company contribution and match, and a variety of other benefits. In addition, employees are eligible for a generous time off package including vacation, personal days, holidays and other leaves.

Why Novartis

Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients lives. Ready to create a brighter future together?

EEO Statement

The Novartis Group of Companies are Equal Opportunity Employers. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

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