Account Specialist, Urology - Michigan
AbbVie
Summary
This is a field-based role covering Michigan. The Account Specialist role promotes a product to community practices and health systems. Customer accounts may include community/private practices, community-based hospitals, academic medical centers, and government accounts (military treatment facilities and/or Veteran's Affairs Medical Centers). The Account Specialist develops and maintains relationships with various accounts/departments such as neurology, pain medicine, physical medicine and rehabilitation, primary care, and pharmacy, or in Urology, specialists such as urology, urogynecology, obstetrics and gynecology, female pelvic medicine, ambulatory surgical centers, and reconstructive surgery.
Job description
Purpose
This is a field-based role covering Michigan. The Account Specialist role promotes a product to community practices and health systems. Customer accounts may include community/private practices, community-based hospitals, academic medical centers, and government accounts (military treatment facilities and/or Veteran's Affairs Medical Centers). The Account Specialist develops and maintains relationships with various accounts/departments such as neurology, pain medicine, physical medicine and rehabilitation, primary care, and pharmacy, or in Urology, specialists such as urology, urogynecology, obstetrics and gynecology, female pelvic medicine, ambulatory surgical centers, and reconstructive surgery.
Responsibilities
- Promote a product to meet/exceed sales goals in community/private practices as well as hospitals/health systems.
- Identify/uncover customer needs (training, clinical, operational, reimbursement) and address with appropriate AbbVie resources.
- Provide education and clinical/injection training for residents, fellows, and other key hospital personnel.
- Expert delivery of anatomical/procedural information and training, including the appropriate use of anatomical terminology to train injection paradigms/postures while highlighting various anatomical and injection insights and considerations.
- Effectively utilize AbbVie's sales and data resources to enhance productivity and growth of AbbVie products while implementing U.S. Marketing Plan.
- Collaborate with other Account Specialist to promote the product for approved indications and execute individual, department, or group resident/fellow trainings within hospital/health system accounts.
Qualifications
- 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 technical experience with three (3) or more years of experience within sales preferred and a high school diploma/GED required.
- Experience with Buy & Bill and/or Specialty Pharmacy products is preferred, in both health systems and private practice.
- Ability to lift/pull 25–100 lb. training models and meet necessary hospital credentialing/vaccination requirements.
- Valid driver's license: Ability to pass a pre-employment drug screening test and meet safe driving requirements.
- Ability to travel adequately to cover territory, as well as overnight attendance at scheduled training events and sales meetings.
- Documented history of strong sales performance, preferably in a clinical/technical/consultative sales role with multiple decision makers is preferred.
- Ability to manage a complex sell, learn procedural, technical, clinical, and anatomical information quickly and communicate/present/train to a variety of audiences.
- Satisfy all applicable health care industry representative (HCIR) credentialing requirements to gain and maintain entry into facilities and organizations in assigned territory.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in health, sciences, pharmacy or business-related field preferred or relevant and equivalent industry experience required
- At least five (5) years of technical experience in lieu of a bachelor's degree
- Three (3) or more years of experience within sales preferred
- High school diploma/GED required
- Experience with Buy & Bill and/or Specialty Pharmacy products preferred
- Ability to lift/pull 25–100 lb. training models
- Meet necessary hospital credentialing/vaccination requirements
- Valid driver's license
- Ability to pass a pre-employment drug screening test
- Meet safe driving requirements
- Ability to travel adequately to cover territory and attend overnight training events and sales meetings
- Documented history of strong sales performance
- Ability to manage a complex sell and learn procedural, technical, clinical, and anatomical information quickly
- Ability to communicate/present/train to a variety of audiences
- Satisfy all applicable HCIR credentialing requirements
Benefits
- Paid time off
- Medical, Dental & Vision
- 401(k)
- Short-term incentive programs
Company overview
AbbVie is a global biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, and markets advanced therapies for some of the world's most complex and serious diseases. Founded in 2013 as a spin-off from Abbott Laboratories, AbbVie has established itself as a leader in immunology, oncology, neuroscience, eye care, and virology. The company's flagship product, Humira (adalimumab), was one of the world's top-selling drugs for treating autoimmune conditions like rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn's disease. AbbVie maintains a robust pipeline of innovative medicines and has expanded its portfolio through strategic acquisitions, including Allergan in 2020. With research facilities across the United States and globally, AbbVie focuses on advancing science to improve patient outcomes while maintaining strong commercial operations worldwide. The company operates with a patient-centric approach and invests significantly in research and development to address unmet medical needs across multiple therapeutic areas.