Account Specialist, Anti Infectives - St. Louis

Account Specialist, Anti Infectives - St. Louis role at Bio Space

Abb Vie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about Abb Vie, please visit us at

The Account Specialist is responsible for maximizing opportunities for the product portfolio in a single-layer geography. This individual will develop and maintain strategic business relationships with a wide spectrum of customers, including Hospitals, IDNs, Academic Institutions, Outpatient Accounts, Long Term Care Facilities, Government Accounts, and Specialty Private Practice. The role focuses on increasing patient access to portfolio products, consistent with approved labels, developing new business, expanding current business, maximizing resource utilization, and increasing sales to achieve geography sales goals through a solution-oriented and collaborative approach.

• Advances hospital and specialty customers along the sales continuum and gains prescriber commitments through effective questioning, active listening, and utilization of approved data and resources. Delivers on-label presentations/sales calls to appropriately highlight the benefits and risks of the product portfolio to create awareness of product solutions and address gaps in therapeutic areas, resulting in sales goal achievement.
• Develops professional relationships and differentiates the Anti-Infective portfolio's value proposition at all levels (C-Suite, Physicians, Hospital Staff, Support Personnel) within accounts and departments to further the use of the product portfolio.
• Strong understanding and ability to problem solve product and patient flow through Specialty Pharmacy, Specialty Distribution, and Buy and Bill channels. Ability to coordinate and mobilize key stakeholders across multiple departments with competing goals to align individuals on patient-focused solutions.
• Ability to achieve success in a complex, matrixed, account-based selling environment in which the need for collaboration and cross-functional discipline is critical. Consistently partners with Abb Vie in-field (MSLs, National Director of Accounts and Key Account Directors) to and in-house teams to identify, design, and/or adapt appropriate approaches and tactics.
• Creates, develops, executes, and monitors strategic geography business plans. Determines appropriate department, channel, HCP focus and frequency by account to deliver on sales objectives. Aligns appropriate resources to support tactic execution and adjusts as needed.
• Sources, interprets and utilizes key data by account to develop and maintain working account profiles and relationship maps for all territory accounts to maximize call continuum and communication. Consistently targets key stakeholders and decision makers within each hospital/institution/outpatient setting to expand physician usage and customer base.
• Attend and actively participate in local boards, societies, conventions, and other HCP meetings when appropriate. Represent Abb Vie and assigned products at such venues, build/improve new/existing relationships. Channel key information, developments, or findings to internal partners/stakeholders. All communications in these forums are on-label.
• Complete all Abb Vie required training and maintain adherence to all company policies and OEC/Legal procedures. Meet health care industry representative credentialing requirements to gain entry into facilities and organizations that are in assigned territory. These HCIR credentialing requirements may include, but are not limited to, background checks, drug screens, and proof of immunization/vaccination for various diseases.
• Proactively collaborates across multiple departments within healthcare institutions and across organizations. Seamlessly works with cross-functional partners including National Director of Accounts and Key Account Directors to develop processes within the account base while working with Medical Science Liaisons to develop compliant communication strategies.

This role is field-based and candidates should live within a reasonable distance from the primary city. Talent will be hired at a level commensurate with experience. This geography covers St. Louis and the Western portion of Missouri.

• Bachelor's degree in health, sciences, pharmacy or business-related field preferred or relevant and equivalent industry experience required. Relevant and equivalent industry experience in lieu of a bachelor's degree is at least 5 years of experience with 3 or more years within the pharmaceutical/health/science industry preferred and a high school diploma/GED required.
• Account-based selling experience (Hospitals, Wound Care Centers, or Infusion…