Companion Animal Senior Territory Representative (South Central, NY)

Companion Animal Senior Territory Representative

Our Companion Animal Senior Territory Representative interacts face to face with our customers, understands their needs and consults to offer the right solutions. We work collaboratively in field sales teams and play a critical role in supporting our customer centric business model.

This position is responsible for working in their respective territory to understand and identify veterinary clinic, shelter facility, and corporate account customer needs, by selling our company's Animal Health division, Companion Animal product portfolio, supporting pull-through activities relative to the customer strategy, and ensuring that our company's Animal Health division is viewed as bringing value and technical innovations aligned to our strategic focus - The Science of Healthier Animals. In addition, the Sr. Territory Representative demonstrates an understanding of the resources available across our company's Animal Health division and our Distribution Partners.

This role will cover the South Central, NY (Albany, Hyde Park, Kingston, Middletown, Poughkeepsie, Schenectady, Oneonta) territory. It is strongly preferred that our sales employees reside within the territory which they cover, however, we will allow sales employees to live up to 20 miles from the territory border.

Essential Accountabilities :

• Communicates about our product portfolio in a way that's meaningful and relevant to each individual customer; customizes discussions and interactions based on understanding of customer's needs.
• Primary point of contact for assigned customers, meet with key personnel / decision makers to understand practice structure, business model, key influencers (Owner / Practice Manager / Key Tech / Associate Vet / Front office staff), customer needs and identifies business opportunities.
• Develops customer strategy - outlining strategy for interactions / relationship, solutions, partner involvement and potential offerings for customer resulting in solutions, partner involvement and potential offerings for customers resulting in sales opportunities and account sales growth of Animal Health products and services.
• Develops territory and specific account plans for all key customers. Partners with National Account Managers, Corporate Account Team, and Distribution Field Partners to maintain strong focus on key accounts and corporate owned clinics to drive occupancy and sales growth.
• Works collaboratively across all species teams to foster our company's approach to enhance knowledge of the entire Animal Health product portfolio.
• Shares with other team members within the region to foster growth and development within the team.
• Analyzes monthly sales results and manage expenses within budget guidelines.
• Identifies and selects programs / services available within Animal Health's available resources to address customer needs and provide education & training opportunities to accounts.
• Works with leadership and Field Professional Services to develop and deliver relevant offerings that address desired customer needs.
• Develops current understanding of Animal Health products, industry trends and competitor landscape.
• Articulates and communicates relevant customer, industry, product, and market trends appropriately through the organization.
• Responsible for developing and meeting learning and development objectives agreed upon with leadership.

Scope and Context : This position is an individual contributor role.

Background & Education

Minimum Qualifications :

Preferred Skills & Abilities :

Required Skills : Accountability, Account Management, Adaptability, Animal Physiology, Business Opportunities, Client-Centric, Customer Contact Management, Customer Experience Design, Customer Experience Management, Customer Strategy, Inbound Phone Sales, Industry Knowledge, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Relationships, Lead Generation, Market Analysis, Market Trends, Process Redesign, Product Knowledge, Product Portfolio Management, Sales Forecasting, Sales Goal Achievement, Sales Methods

Required Skills : Accountability, Account Management, Adaptability, Animal Physiology, Business Opportunities, Client-Centric, Customer Contact Management, Customer Experience Design, Customer Experience Management, Customer Strategy, Inbound Phone Sales, Industry Knowledge, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Relationships, Lead Generation, Market Analysis, Market Trends, Process Redesign, Product Knowledge, Product Portfolio Management, Sales Forecasting, Sales Goal Achievement, Sales Methods

Preferred Skills : Sales experience and / or experience within the Animal Health Industry, Knowledge of the animal health biological and pharmaceutical products, Understanding or prior experience working with distribution, Multi-lingual fluency preferred, particularly in Spanish.

Salary Range : $94,300.00 - $148,500.00

The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits. Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days. More information about benefits is available at https : / / jobs.merck.com / us / en / compensation-and-benefits .

You can apply for this role through https : / / jobs.merck.com / us / en (or via the Workday Jobs Hub if you are a current employee). The application deadline for this position is stated on this posting.

San Francisco Residents Only : We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

Los Angeles Residents Only : We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.

Search Firm Representatives Please Read Carefully : Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails.

Employee Status : Regular

Relocation : No

VISA Sponsorship : No

Travel Requirements : 50%

Flexible Work Arrangements : Remote

Shift : 1st - Day

Valid Driving License : Yes

Hazardous Material(s) : n / a

Job Posting End Date : 11 / 24 / 2025