Neuroscience Sales Specialist - Peoria, IL

Teva Pharmaceuticals

We're Teva, a leading innovative biopharmaceutical company, enabled by a world-class generics business. Whether it's innovating in the fields of neuroscience and immunology or delivering high-quality medicine worldwide, we're dedicated to addressing patients' needs now and in the future. Here, you will be part of a high-performing, inclusive culture that values fresh thinking and collaboration. You'll have the room to grow, the flexibility to balance life with work, and the opportunity to better health worldwide, together.

Our Team, Your Impact

The Neuroscience Sales Specialist is a strategic, results-driven professional responsible for significant sales growth and profitability within a defined territory through compliant, ethical solutions. The Sales Specialist possesses a deep understanding of account-based selling, a proven ability to build and maintain strong total office relationships, and a collaborative mindset to support cross-functional initiatives. Successful candidates will possess strong problem-solving and analytical skills to proactively identify opportunities, develop tailored solutions for customers, and exceed performance expectations. Demonstrating a strong business acumen, the Sales Specialist will effectively manage territory resources, share best practices with internal team members, and align goals with organizational targets.

Essential areas of responsibility include building rapport and relationships by interacting effectively with regional team members and key external contacts, providing healthcare product demonstrations, consulting with physicians and medical office staff to promote products and provide education, strategically managing and growing relationships with key accounts, regularly reviewing sales data to create effective territory plans, maintaining a competitive edge by addressing market challenges, working with cross-functional teams to achieve shared objectives, maintaining a call average with healthcare providers, taking calculated risks to solve issues creatively, adhering to Teva's compliance policies, and achieving sales performance goals.

Your Skills and Experience

Education/certification/experience: Bachelor's degree required, preferably in a related field. At least 1 year of full-time, documented business-to-business sales experience; pharmaceutical sales experience strongly preferred.

Skills/knowledge/abilities: Proven record of accomplishments in this specific market toward meeting established objectives, demonstrated interpersonal skills, well-developed written and oral communication skills, ability to interact with healthcare providers in both face-to-face and virtual environments, knowledge of reimbursement, managed care, or marketing preferred, new product launch experience preferred, broad therapeutic area experience particularly in the therapeutic area preferred, candidate must be able to successfully pass background, motor, and drug screening, valid US driver's license and acceptable driving record required.

Full time documented business to business sales experience dependent on level as listed below. Pharmaceutical sales experience preferred. Level of the role will be commensurate to years of experience and performance criteria.

Sales Specialist: Minimum 1 year

Executive Sales Specialist: Minimum 7 years

Travel Requirements: Regular travel, which may include air travel and weekend or overnight travel. Major cities include Peoria, Bloomington, Springfield, Champaign-Urbana, Quincy, Kankakee. Territory boundaries are subject to change based on business need.

Salary Range

The annual starting salary for this position is between $88,000 $160,000 annually. Factors which may affect starting salary within this range and level of role may include geography/market, skills, education, experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate. This position also qualifies for participation in the company's sales incentive plan, which rewards employees based on their achievement of defined sales targets and adheres to the plan's established guidelines.

How We'll Take Care of You

We offer a competitive benefits package, including comprehensive health insurance, retirement savings, time off, life and disability protection, and additional benefits such as employee assistance program, employee stock purchase plan, tuition assistance, flexible spending accounts, health savings account, life style spending account, volunteer time off, paid parental leave, family building benefits, virtual physical therapy, accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity insurances, identity theft protection, legal plan, voluntary life insurance, and long term disability.

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Teva Pharmaceuticals is committed to equal opportunity in employment. It is Teva's policy that equal employment opportunity be provided without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, disability, pregnancy, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, ancestry, national or ethnic origin, citizenship status, military status or status as a disabled or protected veteran, or any legally recognized status entitled to protection under applicable federal, state, or local laws.

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