Chronic Care Specialty Sales Representative - Highland Park, IL

Chronic Care Specialty Sales Representative

As a Chronic Care Specialty Sales Representative, you will drive meaningful patient impact by leveraging our scientific expertise and serving as the primary contact for customers within your assigned territory. You will collaborate closely with Account Executives, Integrated Delivery Systems leaders, and other field colleagues to deliver seamless, patient-focused solutions.

This is a field-based sales role responsible for covering a specific territory. Travel depends on the needs of the territory and where the selected candidate resides, and overnight travel may be required about 25% of the time to support client meetings and ensure comprehensive territory coverage.

In this role, you will develop and manage relationships with a diverse range of specialty health care customers including cardiologists and other approved specialty physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, pharmacists, and office managers. You will regularly engage with various health care settings such as physicians' offices, integrated delivery systems, pharmacies, and hospital clinics to effectively execute your responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a territory-level business plan in alignment with company policies, standards, and ethics.
• Maintain current product knowledge and certifications for the company's portfolio.
• Conduct balanced and compliant product sales discussions with health care providers and business professionals to align customer needs with company products according to product labeling.
• Provide management with regular updates on customer needs, marketplace dynamics, and progress toward quality goals.
• Monitor business performance against objectives using company tools to support effective planning and sales impact.

Qualifications

This position's band level will be evaluated based on candidate's qualifications.

Minimum Requirements :

Preferred Experience and Skills :

The salary range for this role is : S1 : $77,700.00 - $122,300.00 S2 : $104,200.00 - $163,900.00 This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, government requirements, and business or organizational needs.

Required Skills : Account Management, Customer Needs Assessments, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Health Economics, Interpersonal Relationships, Lead Generation, Market Analysis, Product Knowledge, Sales Forecasting, Sales Metrics, Sales Pipeline Management, Sales Reporting, Sales Strategy Development, Sales Training, Self Motivation

Preferred Skills : Account Management, Customer Needs Assessments, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Health Economics, Interpersonal Relationships, Lead Generation, Market Analysis, Product Knowledge, Sales Forecasting, Sales Metrics, Sales Pipeline Management, Sales Reporting, Sales Strategy Development, Sales Training, Self Motivation

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 .