Pharmaceutical Sales Specialist
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Pharmaceutical sales specialist growing Alcon’s dry-eye portfolio across Chicago and northern suburbs. Managing healthcare accounts, clinical education, territory plans, and customer relationships.
Responsibilities:
- Build trusted partnerships and execute territory business plans
- Promote Alcon's innovative ocular health pharmaceutical portfolio and expand access to solutions supporting better patient outcomes
- Cover the City of Chicago and North Suburbs, focusing on physicians, optometrists, ophthalmologists, allied health care professionals, and key accounts
- Drive territory growth and achieve sales objectives through strategic account planning and account management
- Develop and maintain relationships with ophthalmologists, optometrists, healthcare providers, and key stakeholders
- Educate customers on Alcon's ocular health pharmaceutical portfolio and support product adoption through clinical discussion and customer engagement
- Execute territory business plans focused on growing, optimizing, and protecting key accounts
- Conduct regular in-person customer visits and deliver educational presentations, speaker programs, and customer events
- Identify growth opportunities through market trends, customer needs, and competitive intelligence
- Collaborate with Medical Science Liaisons, Market Access teams, Marketing, and Regional Sales Leadership
- Use data and insights to create account strategies that drive business results and enhance customer engagement
- Manage a geographically dispersed territory with significant travel and customer-facing activity
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent years of directly related experience (or high school +10 yrs; Assoc.+6 yrs; M.S.)
- Ability to fluently read, write, understand, and communicate in English
- 2 years of proven experience
- Candidates must reside within the assigned territory: City of Chicago and North Suburbs
- Must possess a valid driver's license and maintain an acceptable driving record
- Ability to travel 100%
- Experience with new product launches, market development, customer adoption strategies, and territory growth initiatives
- Healthcare field sales experience in ophthalmology, optometry, ocular health, or eye care pharmaceuticals
- Experience partnering with ophthalmologists, optometrists, retina specialists, glaucoma specialists, and other eye care professionals
- Experience promoting dry eye disease therapeutics, ocular health therapies, ophthalmic pharmaceuticals, and specialty eye care products
- Experience supporting ophthalmic medical devices, eye care diagnostics, surgical ophthalmology products, retina therapies, glaucoma treatments, or anterior segment products
- Ability to drive product adoption through clinical education, consultative selling, and strategic account management
- Strong understanding of physician-office workflows and ability to influence treatment decisions through clinical and business discussions
- Experience developing territory business plans, prioritizing accounts, and identifying growth opportunities through customer insights and market analysis
- Success engaging healthcare providers and building long-term customer relationships based on trust and credibility
- Excellent communication, presentation, negotiation, and relationship-building skills
Benefits:
- Robust benefits package including health, life, retirement, flexible time off for exempt associates, and much more!
- Remote sales environment
- Opportunity to work independently while collaborating with industry-leading eye care professionals
















