
Oncology Sales Specialist - Raleigh, NC
Merck
Summary
Grow and accelerate your career with our Oncology Sales organization and join a team that's driven to make an impact on cancer patients. We take a customer-centric approach by leveraging emerging digital technologies and data analytics to better understand our patients' needs.
Job description
As an Oncology Sales Specialist, you will be a key member engaging with customers to address identified needs, educating key stakeholders about our oncology products, communicating with the broader oncology community, and actively working to achieve or exceed assigned sales goals within your territory. This is a field-based sales position responsible for covering the Raleigh, North Carolina territory, including Raleigh and Greenville, NC. The selected candidate must reside within the territory. Overnight travel may be required about 10% of the time.
Key Responsibilities
- Working with other team members in the territory, attain or exceed the assigned sales goals for the geography.
- In collaboration with territory counterparts, ensure customers have a seamless experience, meet with key stakeholders to understand practice structure, business model, and key influencers, while building business relationships and trust to uncover and comprehend their needs.
- In customer engagements, employ approved resources and messaging to communicate a compelling, patient-centered rationale for oncology products in their indicated uses.
- Possess knowledge of the extended care team/multidisciplinary team, cancer staging, possible treatment options, pathways, and guidelines associated with different tumors/diseases.
- Analyze and identify trends in a complex buying environment, including multiple channels of drug distribution (oncology group purchasing organizations, wholesalers, and specialty pharmacies).
- Review and evaluate patterns for products purchased and prescribed (outpatient vs in-patient infusion, hospital or GPO contract, etc.).
- Comprehend complex accounts and local market interdependencies to proactively develop and execute short- and long-term plans in collaboration with the local team and district manager.
- Ask insightful questions to understand customer priorities and needs to support engaging and relevant conversations about the product portfolio.
- Ensure a consistent customer experience across divisions and functional areas and share key learnings to support customer needs by collaborating with the in-scope customer team.
Qualifications
Minimum Requirements: Bachelor's degree with at least 8 years of sales experience or a minimum of high school diploma with at least 10 years of equivalent experience. 2+ years of oncology field-based experience selling an oncology therapeutic to oncology customers. Valid driver's license and able to drive a vehicle. Travel the amount of time the role requires, including overnight travel as needed. Reside in or within a reasonable distance to the district.
Preferred Experience and Skills: Experience in oncology field sales or clinical oncology, with expertise in one or more of the following areas: NSCLC, HNSCC, and melanoma. Documented history of strong performance in a sales/marketing or clinical oncology role. Established customer relationships within the assigned territory.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree with at least 8 years of sales experience or high school diploma with at least 10 years of equivalent experience
- 2+ years of oncology field-based experience selling an oncology therapeutic to oncology customers
- Valid driver's license and able to drive a vehicle
- Travel the amount of time the role requires, including overnight travel as needed
- Reside in or within a reasonable distance to the district
- Experience in oncology field sales or clinical oncology (preferred)
- Expertise in NSCLC, HNSCC, and/or melanoma (preferred)
- Documented history of strong performance in a sales/marketing or clinical oncology role (preferred)
- Established customer relationships within the assigned territory (preferred)
Benefits
- Medical, Dental & Vision
- 401(k) Matching
- Paid Holidays
- Vacation
- Compassionate and Sick Days
- Annual Bonus
- Long-Term Incentive
Company overview
Merck & Co., Inc., known as Merck in the United States and Canada and MSD (Merck Sharp & Dohme) internationally, is a premier American multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Rahway, New Jersey. Founded in 1891 as the U.S. subsidiary of the German Merck Group, the company became independent following World War I and has since grown into one of the world's largest biomedical companies, ranking fourth globally by revenue. Merck operates across three core business segments: pharmaceuticals, vaccines, and animal health products. The company is renowned for its groundbreaking research and development, having brought numerous life-saving medicines to market including Keytruda (pembrolizumab), a leading immunotherapy for cancer treatment that generated $29.5 billion in 2024 revenue, and Gardasil, a revolutionary HPV vaccine. With approximately 75,000 employees worldwide, Merck maintains a robust pipeline of innovative therapies focused on oncology, vaccines, hospital acute care, cardiology, neuroscience, virology, immunology, and diabetes. The company invests heavily in R&D, spending $17.9 billion in 2024 alone, demonstrating its commitment to advancing scientific discovery. Merck's legacy spans over 130 years of bringing hope to humanity through important medicines and vaccines, operating with a purpose to use leading-edge science to save and improve lives globally while fostering an inclusive workforce and responsible business practices.