Growth & Genetics Clinical Sales Specialist
Ascendis Pharma is a fast-growing biopharmaceutical company with offices in Denmark, Germany, and the United States. We are advancing a pipeline of endocrine rare disease programs and are also advancing technologies in oncology as a second therapeutic focused area. Three of our product candidates are currently in clinical development.
Ascendis is a dynamic place for employees to grow and develop their skills, with a leadership team who is highly invested in the success of the organization. As a member of our team, you can influence the direction of the company and be part of an organization that creates new therapies with potential for best-in-class efficacy and safety.
The Growth & Genetics Clinical Sales Specialist is responsible for understanding and identifying a customer's needs, supporting pull-through activities relative to the customer strategy, and ensuring that Ascendis Pharma is viewed as a valued partner to healthcare professionals and their patients.
Responsibilities
- The GGCSS will promote the Growth & Genetics portfolio and be accountable to develop superior product and disease state knowledge that allows them to engage in appropriate face to face clinical dialogue with multi-specialty healthcare professionals.
- Use product knowledge and selling skills to engage in customized client discussions and interactions based on specific customer needs in a compliant and ethical manner.
- Drive outstanding performance that ensures sales forecasts are met or exceeded.
- Execute strategies and tactics and invest assigned budget and resources to drive territory expectations while focusing on the needs of customers and patients.
- Maintains current understanding of local market, practice structures, business models, and key influencers.
- Calling on Pediatric Endocrinologists, Genetists, Orthopedics, Endocrinologists, and Pediatricians as the primary customers and have demonstrated experience gaining access into institutions and the ability to navigate complex referral networks.
- Demonstrates tenacity in challenging market access scenarios.
- Effectively and routinely uses a variety of analytical tools to understand and evaluate the business to best determine how to accomplish sales objectives and apply appropriate resources in an effective and ethical manner.
- Develops, communicates & executes a business plan to achieve and surpass all goals and delivers on all sales objectives and behaviors.
- Proactively collaborate with peers and internal stakeholders to maximize impact of appropriate resources to pull-through value within the territory and across Ascendis.
- Effectively sell on approved indications and product efficacy / safety profiles to support on-label prescribing for appropriate patients.
- Demonstrate administrative excellence to ensure competent management of work hours, timely and accurate sales call data, customer objectives responses, sample and expense reporting and other administrative items.
- Partner with the access team to develop appropriate strategies that drive access to the brand.