Entry Level Field Sales - Chronic Care - Reno, NV

The Customer Representative is a key member of the local Customer Team that works collaboratively with our Company's field-based employees such as the Account Executives, Integration Delivery Systems leaders as well as other members of our Company's extended team.

These customers may include: 

• Health care providers such as physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, pharmacists as well as quality directors and office managers.  

• Within their geography there are a diverse set of health care locations that they will call upon to execute their role including: physicians’ offices, integrated delivery systems, and hospital clinics.  

The District Customer Representative responsibility will be dependent on manager discretion based on the priorities of their district. The role requires frequent travel as assignments may occur anywhere within the district.  The primary activities include: ·

• Developing a business plan in accordance with our policies, standards, and ethics.

• Maintaining product knowledge and certification on our Company's portfolio for which they are responsible.

• Providing customers with key insights by engaging in balanced product sales discussions (in-person and virtual) to align with customer needs in accordance with product labeling. This is achieved by keeping apprised of professional and health care environment knowledge through self-study of company-provided scientific, product and marketplace information, attendance at product workshops and conferences, as well as consistent and ongoing review of our promotional materials

• Providing our management with updates on customer needs as it relates to helping them improve patient health outcomes, customer feedback, marketplace dynamics, and progress towards quality goals.

• Regularly monitoring business performance against objectives using company provided tools.

This position covers: Sacramento/Reno Districts

The ideal location to reside is within district boundary.

Travel (75%) varies based on candidate’s location within the geography.

Position Qualifications

Education Minimum Requirement:

• BA/BS with 0-2 years Sales experience OR a minimum of high school diploma with at least 4 years of relevant work experience which could include: professional sales, experience in marketing, military, or healthcare/scientific field (pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical devices). 

Required Experience and Skills:

• Demonstrated excellence in current or previous educational or professional roles.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

• Ability to work both independently and within a team environment.

• Strong organizational and time management skills.

• Embrace an agile mindset and open to experiment in accordance with our policies, standards, and ethics.

• Valid Driver's license.

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Ability to convey technical concepts accurately and clearly.

• Previous sales, account management, consultative, or customer service experience.

• Ability to analyze metrics to assess progress against objectives.

Our Human Health Division maintains a “patient first, profits later” ideology. The organization is comprised of sales, marketing, market access, digital analytics and commercial professionals who are passionate about their role in bringing our medicines to our customers worldwide.  

Who we are …

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for …

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

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