The Role
Manage the Eastern Canada territory across Quebec and Atlantic provinces for a specialty biopharmaceutical company. Develop territory business plans, achieve sales targets, build relationships with healthcare professionals, communicate clinical information, execute educational and conference activities, report CRM data, manage budgets, and maintain compliance. The role requires frequent field travel, French and English fluency, and at least six years of specialty pharmaceutical or biotech sales experience.
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Company Overview
Rhythm is a global, commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to transforming the lives of patients living with rare neuroendocrine diseases. We develop medicines for previously untreatable or undertreated diseases. We recognize the courage it takes for patients and their caregivers to begin their journey of advocacy to find the answers they need. Their courage inspires us to challenge convention, ask bold questions and seek answers for them. Every day, we strive for excellence through our willingness to adapt, learn, and our tenacity to overcome barriers, together.
Opportunity Overview
Rhythm’s Canada Team seeks an experienced sales professional who is agile, flexible and able to navigate an evolving role while being passionate about Rhythm’s mission and vision. This individual will support the Canada East Region: Québec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, PEI and Newfoundland) and will report into the General Manager, Canada.
Responsibilities and Duties
Qualifications and Skills
This role is field-based. Candidates applying must be centrally located with the region, have close proximity to a major airport and be willing and able to travel frequently.
More about Rhythm
We are a dynamic and growing global team spanning more than a dozen countries. At Rhythm we are dedicated to transforming the lives of patients living with rare neuroendocrine diseases by rapidly advancing care and precision medicines that address the root cause. Our team is passionate about expanding access to reach more patients and developing novel therapies for other rare neuroendocrine diseases, including congenital hyperinsulinism.
At Rhythm our core values are:
Rhythm is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant because of race, creed, color, age, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, genetic information, veteran status, military status, application for military service, or any other class protected by state or federal law.
Headquartered in Boston, Rhythm is proud to have been named one of the Top Places to Work in Massachusetts.
Rhythm is a global, commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to transforming the lives of patients living with rare neuroendocrine diseases. We develop medicines for previously untreatable or undertreated diseases. We recognize the courage it takes for patients and their caregivers to begin their journey of advocacy to find the answers they need. Their courage inspires us to challenge convention, ask bold questions and seek answers for them. Every day, we strive for excellence through our willingness to adapt, learn, and our tenacity to overcome barriers, together.
Opportunity Overview
Rhythm’s Canada Team seeks an experienced sales professional who is agile, flexible and able to navigate an evolving role while being passionate about Rhythm’s mission and vision. This individual will support the Canada East Region: Québec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, PEI and Newfoundland) and will report into the General Manager, Canada.
Responsibilities and Duties
- Create strategic territory business plans that align with brand strategy and support organizational objectives.
- Responsible for achieving territory sales targets on a quarterly and annual basis.
- Develop strong relationships with experts and additional target specialists and allied health care professionals in assigned geography, ensuring delivery of clinically focused messages.
- Collaborate and coordinate with key field-based stakeholders to proactively address customer needs, identify market dynamics and trends, and communicate insights to marketing team.
- Collaborate with marketing team on the development of collateral materials to support health care professional needs and the teams’ activities.
- Engage in ongoing training to improve skills and optimize execution to meet yearly objectives.
- Plan, organize, and execute local learning activities as identified via needs assessments.
- Participate and help lead initiatives to support sales success such as industry related congresses, local and regional meetings, and medical conferences.
- Ensure accurate capture and reporting of data in the CRM.
- Maximize budget allocated to the geographic territory to support execution of strategies and tactics to achieve business goals.
- Ensure completion of all corporate and administrative responsibilities with high levels of efficiency, including Healthcare Compliance training, expense reports and other assignments by established deadlines.
- Adherence to all Rhythm compliance policies and SOPs, Innovative Medicine Canada’s Code of Ethical Practices and all local legal and regulatory parameters.
Qualifications and Skills
- BS/BA degree preferred.
- 6+ years of specialty pharmaceutical and/or biotech sales experience.
- Specialty experience is required. Rare disease experience and launch experience are preferred.
- Bilingual in French/English required.
- Strong understanding of healthcare regulatory and enforcement environments.
- Proven track record of consistent performance in complex markets with diverse health care professional segments.
- Ability to have high command of scientific data and to communicate it effectively to different audiences.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with strong productive engagement of health care professionals utilizing active listening.
- Self-motivated, highly energetic individual with the ability to adapt and thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
- Proven ability to thrive in a collaborative and accountable culture to reach common goals.
- Strong critical thinking skills with a solution-orientated mindset.
- Strong organizational and operational skills, with attention to detail and sound business judgment.
- Ability to travel up to 80% as necessary.
This role is field-based. Candidates applying must be centrally located with the region, have close proximity to a major airport and be willing and able to travel frequently.
More about Rhythm
We are a dynamic and growing global team spanning more than a dozen countries. At Rhythm we are dedicated to transforming the lives of patients living with rare neuroendocrine diseases by rapidly advancing care and precision medicines that address the root cause. Our team is passionate about expanding access to reach more patients and developing novel therapies for other rare neuroendocrine diseases, including congenital hyperinsulinism.
At Rhythm our core values are:
- We are committed to advancing scientific understanding to improve patients’ lives
- We are inspired to tackle tough challenges and have the courage to ask bold questions
- We are eager to learn and adapt
- We believe collaboration and ownership are foundational for our success
- We value the unique contribution each individual brings to furthering our mission
Rhythm is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant because of race, creed, color, age, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, genetic information, veteran status, military status, application for military service, or any other class protected by state or federal law.
Headquartered in Boston, Rhythm is proud to have been named one of the Top Places to Work in Massachusetts.
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field
- 6+ years of specialty pharmaceutical and/or biotech sales experience
- Specialty pharmaceutical sales experience
- Rare disease experience
- Product launch experience
- Bilingual French and English proficiency
- Strong understanding of healthcare regulatory and enforcement environments
- Proven consistent performance in complex markets with diverse healthcare professional segments
- Ability to understand and effectively communicate scientific data
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and active listening skills
- Ability to adapt and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- Ability to work collaboratively and accountably
- Strong critical thinking and solution-oriented skills
- Strong organizational and operational skills, attention to detail, and sound business judgment
- Ability to travel up to 80%
- Central location within the assigned region and proximity to a major airport
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The Company
What We Do
Rhythm is a biopharmaceutical company aimed at developing and commercializing therapies for the treatment of rare genetic diseases of obesity. The company is leveraging the Rhythm Engine -- comprised of its TEMPO Registry, GO-ID genotyping study and Uncovering Rare Obesity program -- to improve the understanding, diagnosis and potentially the treatment of these disorders. For healthcare professionals, visit www.RareObesity.com for more information. For patients and caregivers, visit www.LEADforRareObesity.com for more information.
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