About This Role
The Regional Sales Director, reporting into MS Director of Sales EAST, provides leadership and strategic direction to Territory Business Managers to achieve performance objectives within our Specialty Franchise with focus on Multiple Sclerosis. This is accomplished through strong leadership competencies, effective coaching, utilization of resources and strong collaboration with other divisions or disciplines within Biogen and external business partners. The Regional Director will cover the Pacific Northwest area
What You’ll Do
· Achieve Region goals for the Biogen MS portfolio, including driving demand, retaining appropriate patients in therapy, and managing region budget.
· Leverage coaching model to maximize the development of individuals' skills and abilities of team members to cultivate talent and deliver strong performance.
· Flawlessly execute on key strategic priorities to achieve goals while upholding organizational values and standards.
Specific initiatives may include:
· Understanding market dynamics, business drivers, and corporate goals and resulting impact of those on region and strategy.
· Purposeful collaboration internally and across the alliance to drive executional excellence, accountability, and sales performance through a focused and disciplined approach.
· Develop strategies that uncover opportunities, address problems, or improve process, while leveraging data from multiple sources, to deliver impactful solutions for providers and patients.
· Cultivating and supporting team’s development of strategic customer and stakeholder relationships and ensuring their perspective is the driving force behind all value-added business activities.
· Planning and supporting the development of individuals' skills and abilities so that they can fulfill current or future job/role responsibilities more effectively.
· Building a culture of compliance to ensure that all promotional activities are fully compliant with Company policies and procedures, applicable laws, regulations, and industry standards.
Who You Are
You are a strategic thinker who can execute flawlessly and who anticipates barriers and proactively creates solutions. You are collaborative, proactive, innovative, and a curious person always looking to learn and improve the way we work. You put the needs of patients and those who care for them above all else and have a passion for serving them.
Qualifications
· BS/BA Required; MBA Preferred
· 5-10 years sales management experience or relevant leadership experience
· Neurology Specialty/Biotech sales experience and/or knowledge of the MS market preferred.
· Immunology experience and market knowledge is a plus
· Proven successful track record of consistent high performance.
· Demonstrated ability to lead and inspire a team towards meeting and exceeding objectives.
· Strong leadership, planning and organization, analytics, decision making and problem-solving skills.
· Ability to influence without authority in a matrixed environment and /or cross functional experience in other commercial areas required.
· Travel required.
· Driving is an essential duty of the job; candidates must have a valid driver’s license to be considered.
· Candidate must reside in region.
Additional Information
Base salary offered is determined through an analytical approach utilizing a combination of factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills & experience, job location, and internal equity.
Regular employees are eligible to receive both short term and long-term incentives, including cash bonus and equity incentive opportunities, designed to reward recent achievements and recognize your future potential based on individual, business unit and company performance.
In addition to compensation, Biogen offers a full and highly competitive range of benefits designed to support our employees’ and their families physical, financial, emotional, and social well-being; including, but not limited to:
- Medical, Dental, Vision, & Life insurances
- Fitness & Wellness programs including a fitness reimbursement
- Short- and Long-Term Disability insurance
- A minimum of 15 days of paid vacation and an additional end-of-year shutdown time off (Dec 26-Dec 31)
- Up to 12 company paid holidays + 3 paid days off for Personal Significance
- 80 hours of sick time per calendar year
- Paid Maternity and Parental Leave benefit
- 401(k) program participation with company matched contributions
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Tuition reimbursement of up to $10,000 per calendar year
- Employee Resource Groups participation
Why Biogen?
We are a global team with a commitment to excellence, and a pioneering spirit. As a mid-sized biotechnology company, we provide the stability and resources of a well-established business while fostering an environment where individual contributions make a significant impact. Our team encompasses some of the most talented and passionate achievers who have unparalleled opportunities for learning, growth, and expanding their skills. Above all, we work together to deliver life-changing medicines, with every role playing a vital part in our mission. Caring Deeply. Achieving Excellence. Changing Lives.
At Biogen, we are committed to building on our culture of inclusion and belonging that reflects the communities where we operate and the patients we serve. We know that diverse backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives make us a stronger and more innovative company, and we are focused on building teams where every employee feels empowered and inspired. Read on to learn more about Biogen.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, race, color, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, religion, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. Biogen is an E-Verify Employer in the United States.
Skills Required
- BS/BA Required; MBA Preferred
- 5-10 years sales management experience
- Neurology Specialty/Biotech sales experience preferred
- Immunology experience is a plus
- Proven successful track record of consistent high performance
- Strong leadership, planning and organization
- Ability to influence without authority
- Valid driver's license
- Candidate must reside in region
Biogen Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Biogen and has not been reviewed or approved by Biogen.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is generally positioned as competitive and often perceived as fair across roles, with total compensation framed as strong when bonus and equity are included. Compensation sentiment is described as above-average overall, though it varies by function and business cycle.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity programs are repeatedly highlighted as a meaningful part of the total package, including stock programs and an employee stock purchase plan. Equity and bonus elements are portrayed as important contributors to feeling well rewarded beyond base pay.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits are described as distinctive, including a year-end shutdown and a paid sabbatical after extended tenure. Vacation, holidays, sick time, and personal-significance days are also presented as supportive of work-life needs.
Biogen Insights
What We Do
Through cutting-edge science and medicine, Biogen discovers, develops and delivers innovative therapies worldwide for people living with serious neurological and neurodegenerative diseases. Founded in 1978, Biogen is a pioneer in biotechnology and today the Company has the leading portfolio of medicines to treat multiple sclerosis, has introduced the first and only approved treatment for spinal muscular atrophy, and is at the forefront of neurology research for conditions including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Biogen also manufactures and commercializes biosimilars of advanced biologics. With approximately 7000 people worldwide, we are truly a global organization, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which is also home to our research operations. Our international headquarters are based in Zug, Switzerland and we have world-class manufacturing facilities in North Carolina and Denmark. We offer therapies globally through direct affiliate presence in 30 countries and a network of distribution partners in over 50 additional countries. For more information, please visit www.biogen.com. Follow us on social media – Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube.








