Pharmaceutical Sales Representative - Gi Specialty

Eli Lilly Eli Lilly · Pharma · Austin, TX

Pharmaceutical Sales Representative for Eli Lilly's GI Specialty division, responsible for account-based selling to healthcare providers to drive adoption of therapies. Requires understanding of territory, reimbursement, and clinical information, with a focus on building relationships and achieving sales goals.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develops a strong understanding of territory and reimbursement landscape and utilizes appropriate business insights tools to analyze and adapt to business needs.
  2. Systematically navigates the ever-changing healthcare environment to understand accounts and impact key stakeholders to become a trusted partner.
  3. Actively listens and adapts to verbal and non-verbal customer prompts throughout the call.
  4. Demonstrates high learning agility to understand clinical information / disease state, our product portfolio, and the therapeutic marketplace.
  5. Promotes the entire product portfolio by planning for and engaging in a patient centered dialogue with customers.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree
  • Professional certification or license required to perform this position if required by a specific state
  • Valid US driver's license and acceptable driving record
  • Qualified applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis

Nice to have

  • Two or more years of sales experience (pharmaceutical or non-pharmaceutical) after completion of an undergraduate college degree
  • Other work experience following the completion of undergraduate degree, or a graduate degree (e.g., Masters, MBA, PharmD)
  • Demonstrated business ownership skills, selling/customer experience skills, and execution/results
  • Account based selling experience
  • Ability to identify and engage staff members in accounts
  • Strong background in navigating within complex integrated health systems
  • Extensive experience or thorough understanding of specialty pharmacy distribution model
  • Selling injectable/infusion molecules in a complex reimbursement environment
  • History of working with multiple cross functional partners
  • Strong Learning agility, self-motivated, team focused, emotionally intelligent and influential
  • Must live within 30 miles of the territory boundary