Sr Therapeutic Specialist - Rare Disease

Sr Therapeutic Specialist - Rare Disease - Fresno Territory

At Gilead, we’re creating a healthier world for all people. For more than 35 years, we’ve tackled diseases such as HIV, viral hepatitis, COVID-19 and cancer – working relentlessly to develop therapies that help improve lives and to ensure access to these therapies across the globe. We continue to fight against the world’s biggest health challenges, and our mission requires collaboration, determination and a relentless drive to make a difference.

Every member of Gilead’s team plays a critical role in the discovery and development of life-changing scientific innovations. Our employees are our greatest asset as we work to achieve our bold ambitions, and we’re looking for the next wave of passionate and ambitious people ready to make a direct impact.

We believe every employee deserves a great leader. People Leaders are the cornerstone to the employee experience at Gilead and Kite. As a people leader now or in the future, you are the key driver in evolving our culture and creating an environment where every employee feels included, developed and empowered to fulfil their aspirations. Join Gilead and help create possible, together.

Job Description

This unique opportunity supports the Fresno Territory covering Bakersfield, San Luis -Obispo, Santa Barbara, Thousand Oaks. Candidates need to live within the territory and relocation is not available.

Job Responsibilities:

• Responsible for achieving coverage and frequency targets and consistently achieving sales targets in assigned territory.
• Fulfils a regional training role to develop the key skills of other team members, and acts as a mentor for junior staff.
• Initiates systems to regularly measure sales progress and action plans. Documents and provides feedback on performance.
• May assist others with their individual plans and is productive at developing in-depth market interpretation of sales analysis data.
• Manages territory budgets for customer contacts, speaker events and other miscellaneous external expenditures.
• May work in collaboration with outside partner companies to co-promote products or services.
• May represent company at professional events and promote company products at such events.
• Works cooperatively with Medical Science Liaisons, National Account Managers, Marketing and other internal Gilead team members on various cross-functional projects.
• Organizes sales initiatives within the market as directed and follows up on these to ensure their successful completion.
• May take the lead on projects within team e.g. liaison role with marketing, meetings coordinator etc.
• Prepares business plan for own territory, assigns targets and communicates required actions to achieve goals. May assist others with their individual plans and is productive at developing in-depth market interpretation of sales analysis data.