About AbbVie
AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.
Job DescriptionExecutes brand strategies and field tactics, sales performance, efficiently manages allocated territory and targeted accounts, builds strong customer relationships and the ability to solve customer needs, to maximize short and long term sales performance, placing the patient at the center of any effort, and operating within AbbVie's code of business conduct, policies and laws applicable regulations and regulations.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provides sales performance, key performance indicators (KPIs) in the therapeutic area, financial goals, marketing objectives, etc., in order to meet or exceed these goals.
- Create a pre-call plan using SMART goals and execute post-call assessment to continuously improve sales performance. Effectively manage objections, misunderstandings, concerns and consistently obtain logical and reasonable calls to action, to close every sales call.
- Proactively and continuously aspires to meet customer needs, expectations and challenges, to build trusting relationships with customers and to enter into win-win agreements between AbbVie and customers.
- Develops and executes a call plan that achieves set call metrics and optimizes the reach and frequency of key customers, to maximize access and sales opportunities.
- Builds continuous understanding of customer needs and expectations, territorial market landscape, competitors, market segments/dynamics, accounts, conditions, products, clinical expertise and sales, and shares this market information with the field team, brand team and sales manager, to ensure alignment, to anticipate changes and environmental challenges and to optimize the brand strategy and its execution.
- Differentiate AbbVie's value proposition with designated and identified healthcare providers, develop and retain state experts on various diseases and speakers/ militants to maximize brand performance.
- Bachelor's degree, biology, pharmacy, business related fields or equivalent.
- Proven successful sales experience and solid presentation skills.
- Demonstrates a high level of personal initiative and resilience, to achieve the desired results in a short time and an increased capacity to adapt to new business models.
- Demonstrates in-depth scientific, therapeutic, product and competitive knowledge and is recognized as an expert resource by all relevant stakeholders.
- Strong understanding of business and competent use of business tools; possesses strategic and critical thinking capabilities. Candidates with previous experience in hematology and/ oncology of at least 1 year will be given priority.
- Proactively identifies customer style/behavior and quickly adapts all aspects of the sales approach.
- Works efficiently in a matrix environment.
- Preferably successful proven experience in sales performance in the therapeutic areas of oncology.
- Preferable experience in the commercial pharmaceutical industry, such as physician/account based sales, training, managed healthcare or marketing.
- Knowledge of English, spoken and written.
AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in biology, pharmacy, business, or a related field, or equivalent
- Proven successful sales experience
- Strong presentation skills
- High personal initiative and resilience
- In-depth scientific, therapeutic, product, and competitive knowledge
- Strong business understanding and competent use of business tools
- Strategic and critical thinking capabilities
- Ability to identify customer behavior and adapt the sales approach
- Ability to work efficiently in a matrix environment
- Knowledge of spoken and written English
- At least one year of hematology or oncology experience
- Successful sales experience in oncology therapeutic areas
- Experience in the commercial pharmaceutical industry, including physician or account-based sales, training, managed healthcare, or marketing
AbbVie Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about AbbVie and has not been reviewed or approved by AbbVie.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs are portrayed as a standout, with a dollar‑for‑dollar 401(k) match up to 6% and an additional annual company contribution based on age and service. Feedback suggests this materially boosts perceived total compensation for many U.S. employees.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental and caregiver leave are emphasized, including up to 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents and 4 weeks of paid caregiver leave in the U.S. Feedback suggests these policies are a meaningful differentiator for employees balancing family needs.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is described as extensive, with tiered vacation that scales with tenure, 17 company holidays, and two paid volunteer days in the U.S. Feedback suggests the breadth of leave contributes notably to overall benefits satisfaction.
AbbVie Insights
What We Do
AbbVie is a global biopharmaceutical company focused on creating medicines and solutions that put impact first — for patients, communities, and our world. We aim to address complex health issues and enhance people's lives through our core therapeutic areas: immunology, oncology, neuroscience, eye care, aesthetics and other areas of unmet need.
