Senior Therapeutic Area Specialist (Sr. TAS)- Neuroscience, Cobenfy – Shreveport, LA

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Job Title: Senior Therapeutic Area Specialist
Therapeutic area: Neuroscience- Cobenfy
Territory: Shreveport, LA

At Bristol Myers Squibb, we are inspired by a single vision – transforming patients’ lives through science. The BMS Mission is to discover, develop and deliver innovative medicines that help patients prevail over serious diseases. In oncology, hematology, immunology and cardiovascular disease – and one of the most diverse and promising pipelines in the industry – each of our passionate colleagues contribute to innovations that drive meaningful change. We bring a human touch to every treatment we pioneer.
Join us, build your professional career within one of the most innovative bio-pharma companies, and make a difference.

Key Responsibilities:

• Promotes approved indications of BMS products within a defined territory or region to meet or exceed assigned sales targets in a compliant manner. 

• Creates demand for BMS medicines by articulating in a balanced manner the clinical and scientific rationale for use of products in appropriate patients. 

• Engages with and continuously maintains/grows a high level of scientific expertise in all assigned products and therapeutic areas. 

• Prepares and successfully implements comprehensive territory and account plans. 

• Proactively uses available tools such as CE^3 (once implemented) to derive insights and to dynamically inform call plans. Provides feedback on experience using these tools to leadership to enable continuous improvement. 

Fair & Balanced Scientific Dialogue:

• Demonstrates scientific expertise and passion in using approved scientific resources and publications to present information to HCPs and ensures medical accuracy. 

• Conducts in-office presentations (e.g., lunch and learns) and discusses product-related scientific information with HCPs that is consistent with label. 

• Organizes external speaker programs, selecting speakers from list approved by Speakers Bureau and facilitating scheduling and logistics. 

• Maintains a high level of working expertise on emerging data for approved indications. 

• Engages real-time medical support through Medical on Call to reactively answer unsolicited questions and complex technical inquiries.  

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• Proactively collaborates with other field teams to ensure the best Customer Experience (Cx) for HCPs.  

• Gathers and shares relevant insights and information internally with the appropriate stakeholders to enable BMS to better serve its customers. 

• Complies with all laws, regulations, and policies that govern the conduct of BMS. 

Required Qualifications & Experience:

• Advanced scientific degree and/or preferred 5+ years of pharmaceutical or biotechnology experience as healthcare sales / MSL / HCP / nurse. 

• Ability to communicate scientific or clinical data accurately and convincingly to help physicians best serve their patients. 

• Demonstrated experience building and maintaining strong credibility with key customers, office staff, and others in the customer influence network via a customer-centric mindset and desire to create positive and differentiated Customer Experience (Cx). 

• Experience in Psychiatry preferred. 

• Demonstrated strong capability in account management skill sets, superior selling competencies, and proven sales performance track record of meeting or exceeding goals. 

• Demonstrated ability to work effectively cross-functionally with a positive team mindset and can-do attitude.