Senior Therapeutic Area Specialist, Oncology
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BMS Senior Therapeutic Area Specialist promoting oncology medicines across Chicago-area healthcare providers. Delivering compliant scientific engagement, territory planning, and customer-focused field sales.
Responsibilities:
- Promote approved indications of BMS products within a defined territory to meet or exceed assigned sales targets compliantly
- Create demand for BMS medicines by communicating clinical and scientific rationale for appropriate patients
- Maintain and grow scientific expertise in assigned products and therapeutic areas
- Prepare and implement comprehensive territory and account plans
- Use CE^3 and other available tools to derive insights and dynamically inform call plans
- Present approved scientific information to healthcare providers
- Conduct in-office presentations such as lunch-and-learns
- Organize external speaker programs, including speaker selection, scheduling, and logistics
- Maintain working expertise on emerging data for approved indications
- Engage Medical on Call for unsolicited questions and complex technical inquiries
- Collaborate with other field teams to deliver a strong customer experience
- Gather and share customer insights internally with appropriate stakeholders
- Comply with all applicable laws, regulations, and BMS policies
- Spend 100% of time in the field with external customers
Requirements:
- Advanced scientific degree and/or 5+ years of pharmaceutical or biotechnology experience as healthcare sales, MSL, HCP, or nurse
- Ability to communicate scientific or clinical data accurately and convincingly to physicians
- Experience building and maintaining credibility with key customers, office staff, and customer influence networks
- Oncology experience preferred
- Strong account management skills and superior selling competencies
- Proven sales performance track record of meeting or exceeding goals
- Ability to work effectively cross-functionally
- Strong selling and promotional skills with a performance track record
- Customer-centric and commercial mindset
- Ability to drive business results
- Experience identifying, engaging, and cultivating customer credibility across the patient care journey
- Understanding of the patient journey and ability to customize engagement and deliver tailored messages
- Excellent communication and presentation skills for scientific and clinical data
- Strong learning mindset and passion for science
- Ability to analyze prescribing patterns, market trends, HCP preferences, and clinical data
- Ability to segment HCPs and tailor communications and product presentations
- Ability to use CE^3 for insights and dynamic call planning
- Ability to use digital communication channels, CE^3, CRM tools, Medical on Call technology, internet, and online resources
- Strong business acumen and ability to analyze business and market drivers and develop, execute, and adjust business plans
- High integrity and good judgment for compliant execution
- At least 21 years of age
- Driver’s license in good standing issued by the state of residence
- Driving risk level acceptable to the Company
- Ability to operate a company-provided vehicle
Benefits:
- Health coverage: medical, pharmacy, dental, and vision care
- BMS Well-Being Account
- BMS Living Life Better
- Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
- 401(k) plan
- Short- and long-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Accident insurance
- Supplemental health insurance
- Business travel protection
- Personal liability protection
- Identity theft benefit
- Legal support
- Survivor support
- Flexible time off (unlimited, with manager approval) for US exempt employees
- 11 paid national holidays
- 160 hours annual paid vacation for eligible new hires
- 3 optional holidays for eligible employees
- Unlimited paid sick time, based on eligibility
- Up to 2 paid volunteer days per year
- Summer hours flexibility, based on eligibility
- Leaves of absence for medical, personal, parental, caregiver, bereavement, and military needs
- Annual Global Shutdown between Christmas and New Years Day
- Reasonable workplace accommodations/adjustments and ongoing support















