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Job Location drjobs

San Diego, CA - USA

Monthly Salary drjobs

$ 205000 - 251000

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

Description

Ardelyx is a publicly traded commercial biopharmaceutical company founded with a mission to discover develop and commercialize innovative firstinclass medicines that meet significant unmet medical needs. Ardelyx has two commercial products approved in the United States IBSRELA (tenapanor) and XPHOZAH (tenapanor). Ardelyx has agreements for the development and commercialization of tenapanor outside of the U.S. Kyowa Kirin commercializes PHOZEVEL (tenapanor) for hyperphosphatemia in Japan. A New Drug Application for tenapanor for hyperphosphatemia has been approved in China with Fosun Pharma. Knight Therapeutics commercializes IBSRELA in Canada.
The Zone Director will report into the National Sales Director and will be responsible for recruiting hiring and leading a high performing sales team within a geographically defined Zone to drive IBSRELA (and subsequent pipeline assets) sales. The Zone Director will assist the National Sales Director in developing along with the marketing and commercial leadership team the sales plan to ensure that Ardelyxs sales goals are achieved. The Zone Director is responsible for understanding and leveraging the personnel and responsibilities of a crossfunctional team to drive strategic imperatives including those of Sales Marketing Market Access Patient Services and Commercial Operations. In addition to playing a key sales and company leadership role the Zone Director will cultivate and maintain a strong direct customer facing presence with key decision makers influencers and stakeholders in the gastroenterology and subesquent pipeline assets spaces. Ideal candidates will have strong sales leadership experience and a proven track record in highly specialized therapeutic areas with multiple health care professional decision makers and influencers. This position is critically important as it will help further solidify a strong sales foundation maintain a high performing patientcentered culture across the sales team and continue to position
Responsibilities:
  • Hire train develop lead Area Business Directors (ABDs) to serve the Zone geography in their respective territories
  • Organize control and coordinate input relating to staffing training and developing and retaining key talent for the sales organization
  • Own the Zones sales objectives and performance of every ABD sales territory
  • Coordinate the development of the Zones strategic business plans outlining the execution of sales personnel around defined strategies and tactics for achievement of sales goals and objectives provide direction guidance and support to ensure optimal execution of sales and marketing plans
  • Assist the National Sales Director in developing implementing and managing sales force incentive and compensation programs as well as customized sales force analyses to effectively manage optimal targeting planning resource allocation and performance evaluations
  • Assist in translating key financial drivers and business analytics/insights into specific measurable and executable action plans for ABDs and inside sales personnel
  • Oversee evaluate and enforce compliance with Ardelyx policies including code of conduct operational guidelines travel and expense policies and promotional guidelines as it relates to the sales force
  • Develop assert and continuously reinforce a culture of compliance ensuring that all sales activities and actions by members of the sales team comply with all laws and regulations and company compliance polices and procedures
  • Manage and monitor sales team operating budgets and assist in developing guidelines for field sales budget adherence
  • Proactively engage with key customers decisioninfluencers decisionmakers and account groups to directly represent Ardelyx in a leadership capacity promote Ardelyx products and achieve company objectives
  • Provide input on sales team alignments and expansions including evaluating workload potential performance potential and sales results against sales forecasts and KPIs
  • Ensure all Zone promotional activities are in accordance with Ardelyxs policies and procedures including reviewing potential violations of company policies and procedures and direct and approve any appropriate disciplinary action
Qualifications:
  • Bachelors degree with 9 12 years of pharmaceutical/biotech industry commercial experience in Sales Market Access and/or Marketing with 4 years of pharmaceutical/biotech industry sales management experience or equivalent experience
  • Extensive knowledge of specialty sales gastroenterology preferred
  • Strong people management skills with a proven track record of building and successfully leading sales teams as well as a track record of success of consistently achieving and/or outperforming sales goals
  • Proven track record of direct facing customer activity as integral part of sales leadership role including product launch experience
  • Thorough understanding of the laws and regulations applicable to the sales and marketing of pharmaceutical products to physicians and healthcare organizations
  • Proven leader ability to engage and inspire employees foster collaboration influence others and integrate functions teams people processes and systems to drive sales results
  • Experience in measuring performance of employees against established goals and objectives and effectively guide individuals through organization path based on interests capabilities and organizational needs
  • Foster the professional growth of others through knowledge sharing professional counseling personal attention throughout organizations
  • Possess the strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate ideas and data both verbally and written in a persuasive and appropriate manner
  • Ability to understand develop and implement sales strategies
  • Ability to analyze sales financial and market data to identify opportunities and to make sound business decisions
  • Strong clinical acumen to facilitate rapport and earn respect with key opinion leaders healthcare stakeholders and patient advocacy groups
Work Environment
  • This position reports to the National Sales Director
  • This position is fieldbased
  • This position requires up to 60% travel (meetings customer visits sales personnel mentoring conferences)

The anticipated annualized base pay range for this fulltime position is $205000$251000. Ardelyx utilizes industry data to ensure that our compensation is competitive and aligned with our industry peers. Actual base pay will be determined based on a variety of factors including years of relevant experience training qualifications and internal equity. The compensation package may also include an annual bonus target and equity awards subject to eligibility and other requirements.

Ardelyx also offers a robust benefits package to employees including a 401(k) plan with generous employer match 12 weeks of paid parental leave up to 12 weeks living organ and bone marrow leave equity incentive plans health plans (medical prescription drug dental and vision) life insurance and disability flexible time off annual Winter Holiday shut down and at least 11 paid holidays.

Ardelyx is an equal opportunity employer.


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