Renal Hospital Specialist (Chicago South IL)

Are you an experienced Sales Professional looking to join a company that follows the science and turns ideas into life changing medicines? If you’re passionate about what science can do to make a difference to patients' lives and ready to discover what you can do – join us.

Working here means being entrepreneurial, thinking big and working together to make the impossible a reality. We’re passionate about the potential of science to address the unmet needs of patients around the world. We commit to those areas where we believe we can really change the course of medicine and bring big new insights to life. As a Renal Hospital Specialist in Chicago South IL, you’ll play a pivotal role in channeling our scientific capabilities to have positive impact on changing patients’ lives.

AstraZeneca's strategy in Renal focuses on ways to reduce morbidity, mortality, and organ damage by addressing multiple risk factors across chronic kidney and cardiovascular disease indications. This patient-centric approach is reinforced by science-led life-cycle management programs and technologies, including early research into regenerative methods.

What you’ll do

• You will develop and position AstraZeneca as a leader through development of long term relationships with targeted hospital accounts and dialysis centers.

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

• You will also develop and maintain in-depth knowledge of market, demographic, and managed care information.

• As needed you will provide special education to healthcare providers through appropriate programs that fall within the ethical guidelines of AstraZeneca's ethical guidelines.

• You will regularly use a wide variety of promotional resources, analytical tools to understand and evaluate the business in order to best determine the use of resource personnel to improve effectiveness in assigned sales territory, based on local assessment of customer needs to accomplish sales objectives.

• You will work with your Regional Business Director and Divisional Sales Manager to develop a local strategy and business plan to generate recognizable increases of sales in territory.

• You will drive sales performance and ensure the sales forecasts and assigned budgets meet or exceed therapeutic and territory goals, while managing your budget.

• You will successfully complete all training requirements, including your product examinations. You will capitalize on formulary approvals and other opportunities through effective implementation of the Strategic Targeting Plan. Timely and administrative management of work hours, sales data, customer objectives, communication responses, synchronization, sample and expense reporting.

• Work with other Hyperkalemia Sales Specialists to achieve common objectives and coordinated selling efforts.

Essential Requirements

• At least two years of documented, full-time, successful pharmaceutical sales experience in driving formulary, patient initiation and discharge processes in hospital accounts

• Bachelor's Degree

• Strong clinical skill, and sales ability

• A valid driver's license and safe driving record

• Internal candidate must be Career Ladder Level 3 and above

Desirable Requirements

• Preference for candidate to live within market, which includes the following US States: (XX, XX, XX, XX, XX, XX, XX & XX)

• Experience in the geography applying with key hospital accounts

• More than two years of experience selling renal products

• Experience calling on dialysis centers

No company relocation assistance provided

Why AstraZeneca?

At AstraZeneca when we see an opportunity for change, we seize it and make it happen, because any opportunity no matter how small, can be the start of something big. Delivering life-changing medicines is about being entrepreneurial -finding those moments and recognizing their potential. Join us on our journey of building a new kind of organization to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we’re opening new ways to work, pioneering cutting edge methods and bringing unexpected teams together. Interested? Come and join our journey.

So, what’s next!

Are you already imagining yourself joining our team? Good, because we can’t wait to hear from you.

Where can I find out more?

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AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity.  We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills.  We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.  We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics.  We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.