Oncology Sales Representative - St. Louis

Oncology Sales Representative / Specialist

Grow and accelerate your career with our Oncology Sales organization and join a team that's driven to make an impactful difference in cancer patients' lives. We take a customer-centric approach by leveraging emerging digital technologies and data analytics to better understand our customers' needs. Developing your career with us will allow you to join a group of passionate professionals, driven by purpose and determined to help save and improve lives. Come join a driven, customer-focused, and collaborative team.

As an Oncology Sales Representative, you will be a key member engaging with customers to address identified needs, educating key stakeholders about our oncology products, and actively working to achieve or exceed assigned sales goals within your territory. This is a field-based sales position that is responsible for the St. Louis, MO Territory. This territory includes St. Louis, Poplar Bluff, Jefferson City, and Kirksville. Candidates must be willing to travel to visit with customers in-person and for national sales meetings / industry conferences. Travel (%) and overnight requirements vary based on candidate's location.

Key responsibilities include and may not be limited to :

• Working with the other team members in the territory, attain or exceed the assigned sales goals for the geography.
• In collaboration with territory counterparts, ensure customers have a seamless experience with our Oncology team, meet with key stakeholders to understand practice structure, and business model, while building business relationships and trust to uncover and comprehend their needs.
• In customer engagements, employ approved resources and messaging to communicate a compelling, patient-centered rationale for our Oncology products in their indicated uses.
• Possess knowledge of the workings of the extended care team / multidisciplinary team, cancer staging, possible treatment options, pathways, and guidelines associated with different tumors / diseases, recognizing the impact of those options on patients.
• Analyze and identify trends in a complex buying environment, including multiple channels of drug distribution (Oncology group purchasing organizations, wholesalers, and specialty pharmacies).
• Review and evaluate patterns for products purchased and prescribed (outpatient vs in-patient infusion, as part of hospital or GPO contract, etc.)
• Comprehend complex accounts and local market interdependencies to proactively develop and execute short- and long-term plans in collaboration with the local team and district manager (known as the Oncology Customer Team Leader).
• Ask insightful questions to understand customer priorities and needs to support engaging, approved, and relevant messaging about the product portfolio.
• Ensure a consistent customer experience across our company's division and functional areas and share key learnings to support customer needs by effectively communicating and collaborating with the in-scope customer team : Customer Team Leader, Key Account Manager, Nurse Educator, Field Reimbursement Associate, Medicare Account Executive, and more.

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Our company is committed to inclusion, ensuring that candidates can engage in a hiring process that exhibits their true capabilities. As an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, we provide equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. As a federal contractor, we comply with all affirmative action requirements for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits. Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days. More information about benefits is available at https : / / jobs.merck.com / us / en / compensation-and-benefits .

You can apply for this role through https : / / jobs.merck.com / us / en (or via the Workday Jobs Hub if you are a current employee). The application deadline for this position is stated on this posting.