# Pharmaceutical Sales Specialist - R&I Primary Care Houston W Katy, TX

**Company**: R&I Primary Care - Houston W
**Location**: Katy, Texas
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Sales
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

As a Pharmaceutical Sales Specialist for R&I Primary Care Team, you'll play a pivotal role in channeling scientific capabilities to make a positive impact on changing patients' lives!

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

- Develop superior product and disease state knowledge and effectively educate and engage healthcare professionals in dialogue about clinical evidence, approved indications, and product efficacy/safety profiles to support on-label prescribing for appropriate patients.

- Function independently with sales proficiency to drive sales performance and ensure sales forecasts and assigned budgets meet or exceed therapeutic and territory expectations.

- Successfully complete training requirements, including product examinations.

- Develop and maintain in-depth knowledge of market, demographic, and managed care information relative to your assigned sales territory.

- Partner with your District Sales Manager and Regional Sales Director to develop a local strategy and business plan to generate recognizable increases of sales in your territory.

- Capitalize on formulary approvals and other opportunities through effective implementation of the Strategic Targeting Plans by using a wide variety of promotional, personnel resources and analytical tools to enhance effectiveness in assigned sales territory, based on local assessment of customer needs.

- Provide special education to healthcare providers through appropriate programs that fall within AstraZeneca's ethical guidelines.

- Work with Pharmaceutical Sales Specialists around common objectives to coordinate selling efforts.

Essential Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree

- A driver's license and safe driving record

- 0-2+ years of sales experience

Desirable Requirements:

- Knowledge of the medical, healthcare or pharmacy industry and skills in clinical; preferably within Respiratory therapeutic areas

- Prior sales experience

- Strong organizational and communication skills

- Demonstrated leadership

- Exemplified judgment and decision-making capability

- Be results-oriented with demonstrated time management skills

- Ability to learn, analyze, understand and convey complex information

## Skills

### Required
- sales
- clinical knowledge
- communication skills
- time management

### Nice to have
- medical industry knowledge
- Respiratory therapeutic areas
- leadership
- analytical skills

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