District Sales Manager – Rare Disease
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District Sales Manager leading Southeast sales and customer relationships for Amgen’s Tavneos rare-disease treatment. Managing teams, market strategy, compliance, and sales performance.
Responsibilities:
- Execute commercial activities for the assigned geography and establish relationships with customers to drive demand for Tavneos (avacopan) in approved patients.
- Lead the designated district as a business to ensure market penetration, analyze market dynamics, and set goals to achieve sales plans.
- Provide a clear, compelling sales purpose for Area team members.
- Build business strategy and strategic impact aligned with corporate goals.
- Develop internal and external customer relationships to drive business objectives.
- Track marketing messages and programs.
- Provide feedback to district teams on marketing, resource allocation, monitoring, and leveraging internal and external resources.
- Manage district teams to maximize performance and achieve or exceed sales and budget targets.
- Build a highly professional workforce and address performance issues decisively and appropriately.
- Ensure account manager team members operate within regulatory guidelines for promotion, program implementation, product compliance, and training.
- Coach and counsel individuals for future development.
- Conduct annual and ongoing performance reviews and competency assessments.
- Communicate and coordinate with district and cross-functional teams, including Marketing, Finance, and other Business Units.
- Share standard methodologies with direct reports and peers.
- Coordinate and/or participate in cluster teams.
- Conduct district sales meetings.
- Develop local Opinion Leader relationships.
- Represent the organization at local, regional, and national trade shows.
Requirements:
- Doctorate degree and 2 years of Sales/Marketing experience OR Master’s degree and 6 years of Sales/Marketing experience OR Bachelor’s degree or and 8 years of Sales/Marketing experience OR Associate’s degree and 10 years of Sales/Marketing experience OR High school diploma / GED and 12 years of Sales/Marketing experience
- 2 years of managerial experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs or directing the allocation of resources.
- Three + years of specialty sales experience
- Experience in biologics
- Buy and bill model experience
- Ability to consistently and objectively recognize and promote success behaviors, as well as diagnose and change unsatisfactory behaviors through effective coaching
- Ability to demonstrate market & customer knowledge to strategically target messages, resources, and activities within the territory
- Demonstrates knowledge of local payor coverage
- Ability to understand and articulate clinical concepts, data, and conclusions
- Proven ability to utilize clinical information to effectively address customer questions and objections
- Ability to recruit candidates that meet the minimum job criteria
- Interviews and hires sales representatives that are capable and committed to fulfilling the job requirements
- Strong sense of responsibility and demonstrated self-discipline
- Setting appropriate short term and long term objectives; demonstrated success in communicating & collaborating with sales staff, peers, business unit counterparts in an effective and timely manner.
- Continually educates self and team on market issues / trends and product knowledge as it pertains to specific business interests.
- Applies new / innovative technologies to enhance efficiency, expands knowledge base and refines skill building.
Benefits:
- Comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions, group medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts.
- A discretionary annual bonus program, or for field sales representatives, a sales-based incentive plan
- Stock-based long-term incentives
- Award-winning time-off plans and bi-annual company-wide shutdowns
- Flexible work models, including remote work arrangements, where possible
- Career development opportunities
- Work/life balance
- Financial plans with opportunities to save towards retirement or other goals
















