Senior Therapeutic Area Specialist, Cardiovascular Community - Sacramento, CA

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Senior Therapeutic Area Specialist, Cardiovascular Community – Sacramento, CA

Cardiovascular

Field – United States Sacramento, CA

The TAS is a critical role in our unique customer model to execute the BMS aspiration to be the Bio Pharma that delivers the most impactful engagement with Health Care Providers (HCPs), driving adoption of new and existing medicines for appropriate patients. The primary role of the TAS is to drive demand for BMS medicines within their portfolio for the appropriate patients.

The TAS engages them with a differentiated Customer Experience (Cx) through deeper scientific dialogue and consistent with label, leveraging new ways of working and CE^3. The TAS builds and maintains strong professional credibility with regional thought leaders (RTLs) and community-based physicians/HCPs in private practice, medical groups, practices, office staff, and other stakeholders in the patient care continuum as their primary point of contact.

The TAS is field-based and is anticipated to spend much of their time in the field with external customers.

• Promotes approved indications of BMS products within a defined territory or region to meet or exceed assigned sales targets in a compliant manner.
• Creates demand for BMS medicines by articulating in a balanced manner the clinical and scientific rationale for use of products in appropriate patients.
• Engages with and continuously maintains/grows a high level of scientific expertise in all assigned products and therapeutic areas.
• Prepares and successfully implements comprehensive territory and account plans.
• Proactively uses available tools such as SOPHIA to derive insights and to dynamically inform call plans.
• Provides feedback on experience using these tools to leadership to enable continuous improvement.

• Demonstrates scientific expertise and passion in using approved scientific resources and publications to present information to HCPs and ensures medical accuracy.
• Conducts in-office presentations (e.g., lunch and learns) and discusses product-related scientific information with HCPs that is consistent with label.
• Organizes external speaker programs, selecting speakers from list approved by Speakers Bureau and facilitating scheduling and logistics.
• Maintains a high level of working expertise on emerging data for approved indications.
• Engages real-time medical support through Medical on Call to reactively answer unsolicited questions and complex technical inquiries.

• Proactively collaborates with other field teams to ensure the best Customer Experience (Cx) for HCPs.
• Gathers and shares relevant insights and information internally with the appropriate stakeholders to enable BMS to better serve its customers.

• Advanced scientific degree and/or preferred 5+ years of pharmaceutical or biotechnology experience as healthcare sales / MSL / HCP / nurse.
• Ability to communicate scientific or clinical data accurately and convincingly to help physicians best serve their patients.
• Demonstrated experience building and maintaining strong credibility with key customers, office staff, and others in the customer influence network via a customer‑centric mindset and desire to create positive and differentiated Customer Experience (Cx).
• Experience in cardiovascular preferred.
• Demonstrated strong capability in account management skill sets, superior selling competencies, and proven sales performance track record of meeting or exceeding goals.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively cross‑functionally with a positive team mindset and can‑do attitude.
• Strong selling and promotional skills proven through a track record of performance.

• Customer/commercial mindset – Demonstrated ability to drive business results.
• Experience identifying, engaging, and cultivating credibility with customers across the patient care journey.
• Demonstrated account management skills and problem‑solving mentality. Understands the patient journey and can customize engagement and deliver tailored messages.
• Demonstrated…