The Role
Drive pharmaceutical sales within an assigned territory by executing business and product-launch plans, engaging dermatology healthcare professionals and key opinion leaders, generating prescriptions, and achieving sales targets. Use market, prescription, and customer insights to optimize targeting and multichannel engagement. Manage distribution availability, forecasts, reporting, compliance, and cross-functional collaboration while supporting product advocacy and patient outcomes.
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Job Description Summary
As a Sales Representative at Novartis, you’ll build strong relationships with healthcare professionals and deliver solutions that make a real difference for patients. You will be responsible for driving territory performance by executing robust business plans, building strong customer relationships, and delivering impactful, compliant engagement. You will focus on achieving sales and growth objectives through effective multi-channel customer interactions, data-driven insights, and close collaboration with cross-functional teams.If you are looking to launch a new product in a specialty portfolio in a priority TA and create a meaningful impact for patients, then this is the right place for you
By personalizing your approach, using data, and working closely with your team, you’ll help us achieve our mission—making every interaction and outcome matter.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
- Create and execute territory business plan aligned to brand strategy (targeting, coverage, quarterly priorities, cycle plans) to achieve productivity and performance
- Drive effective launch execution for new product by ensuring market readiness
- Build strong relationships with KOLs & customers to support product advocacy & generate demand
- Lead multichannel execution to maximize coverage and influence
- Drive high-quality, compliant, HCP engagement using evidence-led, value-based selling; strengthen disease/patient pathway understanding and objection handling
- Use data, sales, prescription insights and market intelligence to optimize targeting, improve call effectiveness, plan territory actions and optimize sales performance
- Work with distribution / trade partners to ensure availability, primary–secondary alignment and stock/expiry risk control in priority channels
- Provide insights to enhance promotional effectiveness and territory performance & collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize resources and forecasts
- Ensure timely and accurate reporting and resolve issues promptly
- Ensure brand plan execution and KPI governance (coverage, call quality, demand drivers, availability) and manage risks across competition, access and supply
- Champion compliance and uphold Novartis’ ethical standards
Role Requirements:
- Science educational background is must, B.Sc., B. Pharma
- Management degree preferred
- Minimum 2 years in pharmaceutical sales, preferably in specialty sales
- Minimum 2 years of sales experience in Dermatology segment
- Strong scientific acumen with the ability to translate clinical and product knowledge into value-based selling, effectively communicating differentiated patient and therapeutic benefits to HCPs
- Proven ability to drive prescription generation and achieve sales targets leveraging
- Strong knowledge of disease management and treatment protocols
- Ability to engage with healthcare professionals from the territory effectively
- Excellent communication, negotiation and relationship-building skills
Skills Desired
Commercial Excellence, Conflict Management, Cross-Functional Coordination, Customer Insights, Influencing Skills, Key Account Management, Professional EthicsSkills Required
- B.Sc. or B. Pharma science educational background
- Minimum 2 years of pharmaceutical sales experience
- Minimum 2 years of sales experience in the dermatology segment
- Strong scientific acumen and ability to communicate clinical and product knowledge to healthcare professionals
- Proven ability to generate prescriptions and achieve sales targets
- Strong knowledge of disease management and treatment protocols
- Ability to effectively engage healthcare professionals within the territory
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and relationship-building skills
- Management degree
Novartis Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Novartis and has not been reviewed or approved by Novartis.
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Healthcare Strength — Pay and benefits are described as a strong overall package, supported by medical, dental, and vision insurance alongside FSAs/HSAs and disability and life coverage. Mental-health support is reinforced through an employee assistance program with psychological support and a network of mental health first aiders.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as a standout element, with an automatic company contribution plus dollar-for-dollar matching in the 401(k). Additional retirement funding is described through an age-based defined contribution program and access to an employee share purchase plan discount.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-related benefits are framed as robust, including a global minimum of paid parental leave for new parents following birth or adoption. Added supports include domestic partner coverage, dependent-care resources, and benefits such as adoption assistance and child/elder care options.
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What We Do
Novartis is an innovative medicines company. Every day, working to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives so that patients, healthcare professionals and societies are empowered in the face of serious disease. Our medicines reach more than 250 million people worldwide.





