Regional Business Director

Summary

Join PharmaEssentia as a Regional Business Director and lead a regional sales team, maximizing sales of oncology products. You will recruit, build, and manage a high-performing sales team, develop regional business plans, and collaborate with cross-functional partners. This critical leadership role requires experience in oncology sales, team building, and product launches. The position offers a competitive salary, benefits package, and the opportunity to make a real impact on the lives of cancer patients. You will be responsible for meeting and exceeding business objectives, ensuring compliance, and fostering a positive team culture. The ideal candidate will be located in Southern California.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree
• 7+ years of experience within the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industries including at least 5 years in sales leadership roles
• 3+ years Oncology experience
• Experience building teams and new commercial capabilities in preparation for product launches
• Proven track record of results in competitive markets
• Ability to understand and coach to the sales cycle including patient identification, building clinical conviction, understanding, and overcoming access and reimbursement barriers, and navigating distribution
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and cross-functionally with partners to establish and achieve common goals
• Must demonstrate the ability to determine and synthesize insights about the business and work with leadership to shape strategy and tactics
• Must be a true team player – authentic, humble, professional, able to build a positive team spirit and lead teams through the ups and downs of drug development, puts success of the company and the overall commercial organization above own interests and supports everyone’s efforts to succeed, grow, and develop
• Demonstrated ability to motivate and lead teams. Must have the managerial courage to make and stand by difficult and/or unpopular decisions if it is what is right for patients and for the business
• Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills and a strong leadership presence
• Strong critical thinking and strategic problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to changes in the work environment. Changes approach or method to best fit the situation and the person. Able to lead through frequent change, delays, unexpected events, or uncertainty/ambiguity with maturity and professionalism
• Advanced business acumen and granular account acumen management skills
• Successful experience covering large geographical territories
• Ability to travel to meet the expectations of the position and territory

Responsibilities

• Recruit, build and lead a team of experienced and highly competent and motivated sales professionals with a track record of performance and a passion for making a difference for patients
• Lead the development of regional business plans in close coordination with cross-functional partners that clearly articulate specific actions, timing, and metrics for achieving established goals
• Develop and coordinate physician advocates for promoted oncology/hem-oncology products
• Identify customer needs and marshal the company’s resources to meet those needs
• Partner effectively across field and home office teams to create a seamless experience for providers and their patients within the geography
• Provide feedback on commercial plans and contribute to the creation of resources, tools, and processes critical to field success
• Continuously review, evaluate, and recommend improvements to the organization to enable higher performance
• Establish a culture of accountability and achievement for the regional team by: Establishing clear expectations for performance including meeting business goals and deploying tools and resources appropriately and in line with strategic direction
• Tracking progress against goals, refining when necessary and celebrating success
• Providing insight to IC philosophy, strategy, and plan design that is motivating and rewards top performance
• Informing the tools and practices for rewarding and recognizing positive behaviors and achievements
• Meet and exceed business objectives through thoughtful planning, collaboration with partners and utilization of tools and resources for flawless execution of strategic direction
• Prioritizing team efforts across stakeholders to maximize opportunities, sharing customer insights, and aiding the team in securing and allocating resources
• Optimization of sales territory alignments, customer targeting, call plans, etc. in partnership with Commercial Insights & Operations (CIO) team
• Utilizing CRM as a strategic tool for assessing and tracking customer status and progressing sales plans
• Providing strong leadership, on-going coaching, and consistent performance management for direct reports including appropriately challenging them to identify their gaps, grow their knowledge and capabilities, try new approaches to persistent challenges, continually raise the bar on their performance, and share best practices across teams
• Continual assessment of skills, identification of gaps, and collaboration with Commercial Training & Effectiveness (CTE) to ensure sales teams have the tools and capabilities needed for optimal impact
• Utilize effective selling techniques and marketing strategies to create a sense of urgency and expand demand/adoption for PharmaEssentia product(s)
• Establishing and cultivating the concept of continual improvement as a core value of the sales organization – this will be a key success factor for the role
• Creation of tailored development plans for strengthening individual skillsets and contributing to fostering future leaders for the organization
• Rewarding and recognizing strong performance
• Ensuring all team activities are conducted within compliance guidelines
• Establish and cultivate a positive culture based on respect, trust, integrity, professionalism, humility, continual improvement, putting patients first, and “doing the right thing.”
• Ensure high touchpoints with team members, peers, sales leadership, and partners to effectively communicate challenges and opportunities and deliver solutions as needed
• Develop and cultivate a close, collaborative relationship with field partners in Market Access and Medical Affairs to ensure teams are working together both effectively and compliantly
• Develop fact-based, data-driven state of the business for the region including thoughtful recommendations for future (what to keep doing, what to change, rationales for both, and what will be achieved)
• Involvement in challenging assignments that contribute to the building and shaping of the growing organization will be a key aspect of the role beyond regional leadership and will support career pathing and development

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of Hem-Oncology customer base
• Existing relationships with key customers are highly valued (e.g., KOLs, key account leadership)
• Injectable product launch experience
• Experience in and understanding of other commercial functions (e.g., marketing, market access, sales operations, sales training, insights/analytics, business development, etc.)

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical coverage
• Dental and vision coverage
• Generous paid time-off
• 401(k) retirement plan with competitive company match
• Medical & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
• Up to $150 monthly cell phone reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program
• Free parking
• Short-term and long-term incentives