Specialty Representative, Migraine - Washington D.C.
Listed on 2026-02-07
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Healthcare
Healthcare / Medical Sales -
Sales
Healthcare / Medical Sales, Medical Device Sales
Company Description
Abb Vie'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 including immunology, oncology, neuroscience, eye care, and the Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information, visit Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, You Tube, Linked In and Tik Tok.
Job DescriptionThis role is field-based, and candidates should live within a reasonable distance from the primary city. Talent will be hired at a level commensurate with experience.
- Deliver sales performance, brand KPIs, financial targets, marketing objectives, and more to meet or exceed objectives.
- Create pre‑call plan objectives and execute post‑call evaluation to continuously improve sales performance. Effectively handle objections, misunderstandings and concerns and consistently gain logical and reasonable calls to action to close on every sales call.
- Proactively and continuously aspire to serve customer needs and expectations and challenges to build trusted customer relationships and achieve win‑win agreements between Abb Vie and customers.
- Develop and execute a call plan that achieves set call metrics and optimizes coverage and frequency to key customers to maximize access and sales opportunities.
- Continuously build understanding on customer needs and expectations, territory market landscape, competitors, market segments/dynamics, accounts, disease, product, clinical and sales expertise and share this market intelligence with in‑field team, brand team and sales manager to achieve alignment, anticipate environmental changes and optimize brand strategy and execution.
- Differentiate Abb Vie’s value proposition with health providers assigned and identify, develop, and maintain disease state experts and speakers/advocates to maximize brand performance.
- Bachelor’s degree in health, sciences, pharmacy or business‑related field preferred or relevant and equivalent industry experience required.
- Relevant and equivalent industry experience required in lieu of a bachelor’s degree is at least five (5) years of experience with three (3) or more years within the pharmaceutical/health/science industry preferred and a high school diploma/GED required.
- Proven track record of leadership success and solid presentation skills. Strong business acumen and proficient use of business tools; possesses strategic and critical thinking capabilities.
- Proactively identifies customer style/behavior and adapts quickly to all aspects of selling approach. Operates effectively in a matrix environment.
- Preferred:
Proven track record of success in sales performance within respective therapeutic areas. - Preferred:
Commercial pharmaceutical industry experiences such as physician/account based selling, training, managed health care or marketing preferred. - Preferred:
Demonstrates in‑depth scientific, therapeutic, product, and competitive knowledge and is recognized as an expert resource by all relevant stakeholders. - Preferred:
English language proficiency verbally and in writing (for all non‑English speaking countries). - Driving a personal auto or company car or truck, or a powered piece of material handling equipment.
- Valid driver’s license and ability to meet safe driving requirements.
- An essential requirement of your position is to satisfy all applicable health care industry representative (HCIR) credentialing requirements to gain and maintain entry into facilities and organizations that are in your assigned territory. You must also be in good standing and/or eligible to obtain these credentials.
External:
Specialty Physicians in Therapeutic brand area, pharmacists, nurses, others depending on brand plan.
Internal:
In‑field team members, Sales Management (i.e. DSM), Marketing Management, Training, Customer Excellence, & Brand Plan stakeholders.
- The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting…
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