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Therapeutic Area: Neuroscience COBENFY
Territory: SoCal/Phoenix: Tucson AZ/San Diego CA/Phoenix AZ/Las Vegas NV
Position Summary
Bristol Myers Squibb has a rich history in Neuroscience focused on developing innovative medicines to help people living with Neurodegenerative and Neuromuscular conditions. Bristol Myers Squibb currently markets a product in Neurology and has reentered the Psychiatry market with a focus on patients living with schizophrenia. BMS is a global biopharmaceutical company leading the way in medical innovation to help patients live longer better lives. Our purpose as a company is to discover and develop therapies that will change the course of human health. We value our passion for patients quest for innovation and spirit of independence and love of challenge.
BMS is looking for an experienced and motivated sales leader to join our rapidly growing organization as District Mental Health Account Specialist Manager. Reporting to the Regional Business Director the DBM will be responsible for building and leading a team of 79 Mental Health Account Specialists hired to support the US commercialization of COBENFY the first ever treatment to target muscarinic receptor circuits for schizophrenia. The Mental Health Account Specialist team will call on the providers and care team members specifically at Community Mental Health Centers Certified Community Behavior Health Centers and Hospitals. You will be a critical member of the hospital launch team.
The DBM Institutional MHAS will recruit build and lead an Institutional Mental Health Account Specialist team providing inspirational leadership and strategic direction to the team to achieve performance objectives and growth expectations. This leader will have indepth experience in the commercialization of brands in the psychiatry market. The DBM Institutional MHAS will collaborate cross functionally to ensure flawless and compliant coordination across the Region with the TAS team Commercial Medical Affairs and supporting teams. The successful candidate will have first line leadership and account management experience with a proven history of success consistently achieving or exceeding sales performance goals.
Key Responsibilities
Build a diverse dedicated successful account specialist team engaging with stakeholders in both community and hospital settings.
Foster a collaborative transparent accountable and inclusive culture.
Form the most knowledgeable credible and welltrained sales team in the industry.
Provide mentoring and coaching to develop direct reports.
Ensure appropriate leadership resource allocation and performance management.
Develop and implement area sales plans and be accountable for achieving sales performance targets.
Actively review performance metrics with Mental Health Account Specialists to ensure the team is carrying out brand strategies and achieving maximum results.
Ensure effective and compliant collaboration between teams including HR Compliance Marketing Learning and Development Market Access Medical Affairs Operations and Sales Analytics.
Build and maintain relationships with Key Opinion Leaders in partnership with Marketing and Medical Affairs.
Proactively evaluate sales activities and results through comprehensive analytics take action and/or communicate to address variances.
Ensure the regional sales team operates in full compliance with all laws regulations and company compliance policies.
3050 travel required (Field Travel Headquarters Congresses Meetings).
Comply with all laws regulations and policies that govern the conduct of BMS.
Required Qualifications & Experience
Bachelors Degree required.
20 years pharmaceutical commercial experience including a minimum of 10 years in a 1st line sales leadership role.
10 years Psychiatry Sales Leadership experience required (Schizophrenia experience preferred).
Proven track record of recruiting and developing high caliber individuals and building successful teams required.
Demonstrated understanding of acute care hospital and healthcare systems and institutional treatment dynamics
Experience successfully launching new products/ indications / in new settings of care with sound expertise in building a sales force and launch readiness plan required.
Strength in analysis critical decision making and bottomline accountability.
Experience leading people to consistently meet/exceed sales targets.
Demonstrated ability to establish a productive accountable and positive organizational culture resulting in a high level of engagement performance and a low level of employee turnover.
Creative problem solver able to address current market trends anticipate challenges and work crossfunctionally to ensure efficient plan implementation.
Translate function and organizational strategies/goals into clearly communicated team and individual goals and expectations ensuring all regional personnel comprehend goals roles responsibilities and how their daytoday activities impact customers/company performance.
Excellent verbal and written skills. Ability to appropriately prioritize filter and sequence communication.
Attention to detail and quality are critical to success.
Highly accountable for the results and outcomes of their responsibilities and understands the impact of their efforts results and attitudes on others.
Uses teamwork to work cooperatively toward the most effective solutions championing the best ideas of team members and assisting where help is needed yet is capable of highly independent work when efficiency is required.
Resultsoriented individual who is highly motivated decisive flexible in thought and has the creativity to excel in and contribute to a rapidly growing company.
Forward thinking mindset with the ability to manage multiple projects and identify and resolve issues.
Broad experience in an emerging publicly traded company environment is a plus.
As this position requires the operation of a Companyprovided vehicle offers of employment are contingent upon the candidate meeting the requirements of Qualified Driver as determined by the Company in its sole discretion including but not limited to the following: 1 at least 21 years of age; 2 a drivers license in good standing issued by your state of residence; and 3 a driving risk level deemed acceptable by the Company.
Key competencies desired
Coaching mindset:
Understands Institutional MHASs learning journey and takes responsibility for ensuring continuous improvement of Institutional MHASs skills.
Ability to coach Institutional MHASs in core competencies: (e.g. scientific agility customer experience patient centricity and mindset digital agility analytical mindset).
Customer/commercial mindset:
Demonstrated ability to drive business results.
Experience identifying engaging and cultivating credibility with customer across the patient care journey.
Demonstrated account management skills and problemsolving mentality. Understands the flow of patients from inpatient through outpatient settings and can customize engagement and deliver tailored messages.
Demonstrated resourcefulness and ability to connect with customers.
Scientific agility:
Expertise in TA.
Excellent communication and presentation skills to articulate scientific and clinical data in an easytounderstand manner to help HCPs best serve their patients.
Has a strong learning mindset and passion for science. Prioritizes staying current with the latest data.
Change agility:
Enthusiasm to adopt and champion new ways of working.
Demonstrates a strong sense of learning agility. Seeks out and learns from unfamiliar experiences and then applies those lessons to achieve better results in subsequent situations.
Analytical mindset:
Ability to use data insights to inform engagement.
Ability to run more focused strategic planning.
Digital mindset adept at using digital tools.
Teamwork/Enterprise mindset:
Ability to lead across the matrix.
Strong business acumen to understand and analyze business and market drivers and develop execute and adjust business plans.
Track record of balancing individual drive and collaborative attitude.
The starting compensation for this job is a range from $183180 $215500 plus incentive cash and stock opportunities (based on eligibility).
The starting pay rate takes into account characteristics of the job such as required skills and where the job is performed. Final individual compensation will be decided based on demonstrated experience.
Eligibility for specific benefits listed on our careers site may vary based on the job and location. For more on benefits please visit our BMS Career Site .
Benefit offerings are subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans then in effect and may include the following: Medical pharmacy dental and vision care. Wellbeing support such as the BMS Living Life Better program and employee assistance programs (EAP). Financial wellbeing resources and a 401(K). Financial protection benefits such as short and longterm disability life insurance supplemental health insurance business travel protection and survivor support. Worklife programs include paid national holidays and optional holidays Global Shutdown days between Christmas and New Years holiday up to 120 hours of paid vacation up to two 2 paid days to volunteer sick time off and summer hours flexibility. Parental caregiver bereavement and military leave. Family care services such as adoption and surrogacy reimbursement fertility/infertility benefits support for traveling mothers and child elder and pet care resources. Other perks like tuition reimbursement and a recognition program.
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Onsite Protocol
BMS has an occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes siteessential sitebydesign fieldbased and remotebydesign jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role:
Siteessential roles require 100 of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Sitebydesign roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50 onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration innovation productivity and a positive Company culture. For fieldbased and remotebydesign roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.
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Required Experience:
Manager
Full-Time