Area Business Director, Acute Care, Texas

Role Summary

Area Business Director, Acute Care, Texas. The role reports to the VP Sales Acute Care and requires strategic agility, business acumen, leadership, and cross-functional collaboration across patient hubs, Market Access, Training, Business Operations, Legal and Compliance. The ABD leads a high-performance team to drive Purified Cortrophin Gel sales growth in a multi-state Texas territory, delivering results while ensuring compliance and integrity.

• Hire, lead and retain a team of Account Specialists rooted in strategy and accountability to ensure the team meets or exceeds sales forecasts while following all compliance expectations.
• Work with VP of Sales to develop regional and territory business plans based on revenue goals, marketing plans, and required competencies and capabilities.
• Review and analyze Area performance metrics to identify trends and opportunities to improve performance.
• Partner with the Field Operations team responsible for establishing the call plan, targets, incentives, collecting data, and measuring performance.
• Collaborate with US Marketing, Channel and Reimbursement, Patient Support Services, Business Operations, Medical Affairs, Legal, Compliance and other internal stakeholders to support the field with appropriate materials and programs; monitor progress and drive course correction where necessary.
• Conduct field visits, regional team meetings to align teams, ensure direct reports understand product and unique market landscape to meet or exceed targets as well as monitor execution, identify issues/opportunities and define new actions.
• Bring key competitive intelligence and work closely with the Marketing team to develop relevant insights and market solutions; help define sales excellence metrics and monthly dashboards.
• Lead and support in National and regional conferences/exhibits.
• Collaborate with Legal, Regulatory, Compliance and other internal stakeholders to ensure tactics and operations are executed with the highest standards of integrity and compliance.
• Performs other duties as assigned or requested.

• Bachelor’s degree required;
  Advanced degree in business or science preferred
• 10+ years of demonstrated success in primary or specialty pharmaceutical sales, with a minimum of 3 years in a people leadership role required
• Experience in Podiatry and Specialty Care strongly preferred
• Understanding and experience working with in-house patient support services required
• Understanding and experience working with drugs requiring prior authorization or specialty pharmacy required
• Understanding of patient services and specialty channel distribution preferred
• Familiarity with relevant legal and regulatory pharmaceutical industry requirements
• Experience leading and executing Area-level business planning activities
• Must be able to work evenings and weekends, as needed, for physician or patient events (both in person and virtual)
• Must reside within the geography and have the ability to manage a multi-state territory with diverse customer base
• Driver's license required;
  Overnight travel is required and will range from 50% to 85% depending on the geography and business needs of the individual territory.

• Bachelor’s degree required;
  Advanced degree in business or science preferred

• Location:
  
  Texas; ability to manage a multi-state territory with travel as required