Area Sales Director – Dermatology
Takeda
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • Alabama, California, Florida, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Virginia, Washington • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $174,500 - $274,230 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- The Area Sales Director plays a critical role in creating and executing business strategies across the Dermatology product portfolio aimed at exceeding sales expectations at a national level.
- Collaborating and leading through their District Managers (first-line leaders) to ensure that area sales performance meets or surpasses company objectives.
- Taking ownership and accountability for implementing company priorities, ultimately maximizing sales results.
- Responsible for helping to build a new field sales organization for Dermatology.
- Acts as a strategic thought partner throughout the brand planning process, offering expertise in budget planning, competitive analysis, targeting, and messaging, working with cross-functional leadership to inform the area business plan with relevant market insights.
- Leads monthly and quarterly business reviews to identify strategic opportunities and challenges across a large geographic area while ensuring the recruitment, retention, and development of a diverse and high-performing sales team.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree – BS/BA required
- 10 years of sales and marketing experience in the pharmaceutical industry, with a minimum of 5 years of management level experience in the pharmaceutical, immunology, biologic/biotech, or medical device industries which may include district management, account management, marketing management, product management experience or the equivalent.
- 5+ years of people management with demonstrated success in achieving sales targets through leadership and strategic planning.
- 2+ years’ experience managing first line leaders preferred
- Experience in dermatology preferred
- Relevant clinical experience, or cross functional experience from training and development, marketing, sales force effectiveness, commercial operations, or related functions preferred
- Adept at leveraging emerging technologies, digital tools, and openness to AI-enabled processes.
Benefits
- U.S. based employees may be eligible for short-term and/ or long-term incentives.
- U.S. based employees may be eligible to participate in medical, dental, vision insurance, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, a tuition reimbursement program, paid volunteer time off, company holidays, and well-being benefits, among others.
- U.S. based employees are also eligible to receive, per calendar year, up to 80 hours of sick time, and new hires are eligible to accrue up to 120 hours of paid vacation.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
salesmarketingbudget planningcompetitive analysistargetingmessagingstrategic planningpeople managementdistrict managementaccount management
Soft skills
leadershipcollaborationaccountabilitystrategic thinkingcommunicationteam developmentproblem-solvingperformance managementdiversity and inclusionrelationship building