Virtual Sales Specialist – CRM – Washington DC – Remote

766 million. That’s how many lives our products touch. At Novartis, being there when and how it matters most for our patients and customers allows us to live our purpose and help bring maximum impact to health outcomes.<br><br>Furthering our commitment to transforming medicine for patients, Novartis is embarking on an ambitious and exciting journey to reinvent how we use technology, data, and customer insights to better serve our consumer’s needs and put them on a path to better health. This includes taking bold approaches that begin with a customer-centric mindset and harness the power of today’s digital and data-driven healthcare revolution to continue to improve and extend even more people’s lives.<br>• Do you want to help people understand their disease and how to seek out the proper treatment for it?<br>• Do you want to support patients achieve the best possible outcomes?<br>• Do you want to deliver a leading customer experience at all touchpoints?<br>• Do you want to be at the forefront of leveraging today’s technology advances to create tomorrow’s healthcare innovations?<br><br>We believe the answers are found when curious, adventurous, and collaborative people like you are brought together in an inspiring environment. Where you’re given opportunities to utilize the power of digital and data to individualize and maximize interactions with customers. Where you’re empowered to not fear failure when taking smart risks. And most importantly, where you’re surrounded by people who share your determination to tackle the world’s toughest medical challenges.<br><br>Job Purpose: <br>The Virtual Sales Specialist is accountable for driving product demand and building/performing business plans to meet sales goals for assigned area for the approved Novartis CRM (Cardiovascular, Renal & Metabolism) portfolio consistent with Novartis’ compliance standards.<br><br>This is a remote opportunity. <br><br>Your Key Responsibilities:<br>• Collaborate with Area Business Leaders, PCP Sales Specialists and Cardiovascular Sales Specialists to build and implement business plans while ethically and compliantly driving achievement of sales targets for assigned area, customers, or therapeutic area. <br>• Establish and maintain collaborative relationships with all Cardiovascular Sales Specialist and PCP Sales Specialist counterparts to ensure office coverage and pull-through with key customers in the assigned geography.<br>• Provide warm leads to the PCP Sales Specialists and Sales Specialists based on coverage of remote and lower tier HCP’s and uses expert knowledge of Novartis Cardiovascular brands to build professional customer relationships and to support effective clinical discussions. <br>• Provide vacancy coverage for local territories to call on customers live and/or virtually and deliver samples either live and/or via mail based on business need.<br>• Develops and applies understanding of customer organizations and networks and of diverse influences that affect customer decisions (e.g., peer relationships). <br>• Completes call plans for customers, including medical experts from customer or academic communities.<br>• Makes effective use of available technologies, marketing assets and channels to support sales calls. <br>• Deploys and uses approved marketing and sales promotional materials and programs and runs virtual promotional programs and facilitates pull-through activities. <br>[#video# • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggbnzRY9z8w{#400,300#}#/video#]