District Manager, Specialty Eye Care - Columbus, OH

District Manager

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 immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com.

The District Manager position is responsible for managing an area of 8 to 10 sales representatives. This position will also oversee all aspects of managing an area including sales accountability, promotional compliance, ensuring all sales reps are addressed regarding training, development, disciplinary issues; interviewing and hiring prospective sales representatives, managing region profit and loss and developing and maintaining key customer relationships to ensure the overall success of the therapeutic products. This position is a unique Specialty Sales opportunity to join AbbVie's flagship business unit, AbbVie Eye Care with a 75-year heritage within the eye care community. AbbVie enjoys a superior reputation among Eye Care Providers where access, relationships and reputation with customers is unrivaled in the industry. The Eye Care culture can be described as a "small company feel" with the resources of a much larger company. If you enjoy a performance culture and competitive environment yet enjoy working with a team, we encourage you to apply. The position provides the opportunity to promote AbbVie's market leading products that are unique to this specialty. The existing product portfolio is broad, differentiated and patent protected for many years. A strong mid to late-stage development pipeline includes a number of promising, disruptive new technologies.

Key Responsibilities and Duties

• District Sales Performance - Consistently attain growth and market share goals while managing the area operation within expense guidelines
• People Development, Team Development and Coaching - Provides leadership and direction for all colleagues. Responsible for recruiting, hiring, training, developing and performance management for the assigned district. Engages in coaching and counseling to develop innovative selling and account management skills along a continuum from new hires to advanced senior sales executives. Oversees development and succession planning to maximize results and ensure team development continuity.
• Field Execution - Leads sales direction across the district. Demonstrates the ability to execute marketing plans. Understands and communicates the sales execution role within the marketing plan. Area expert of product strategy and supporting initiatives. Demonstrates the ability to understand the marketing team's role and provide appropriate feedback to plan implementation.
• Key Customer Management - Proactively identifies, develops and manages the EC relationship with established and emerging physicians, practices and / or accounts within an assigned district. Implements account management plans and allocates resources with key accounts yielding growth, local, regional, and national influence. Effectively optimizes resources with accounts. Established as the key point of contact to manage customer relationship issues and / or opportunities. Understand the local, regional, and national marketplace.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in health, sciences, pharmacy or business-related field preferred or relevant and equivalent industry experience required. Business analysis and planning skills that drive sales performance. Excellent judgment and decision making skills. Ability to articulate the scientific aspects of treatments and therapeutic areas. Proven ability to deliver candid, effective feedback and efficiently manage performance. Ability to develop talent for promotional opportunities. Ability to create a culture of winning and full team engagement. Collaborates and is able to influence without authority across organizations. Models AbbVie's Ways of Working. An essential requirement of your position is to satisfy all applicable health care industry representative (HCIR) credentialing requirements to gain and maintain entry into facilities and organizations that are in your assigned territory. You must also be in good standing and / or eligible to obtain these credentials. These HCIR credentialing requirements may include, but are not limited to, background checks, drug screens, proof of immunization / vaccination for various diseases, fingerprinting and specific licenses required by individual state or cities. Please remember that you are solely responsible for ensuring that you satisfy all HCIR credentialing requirements and for any associated liability for failing to do so. AbbVie has resources to answer questions you may have regarding your responsibilities.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working with finances and budgets. A high degree of flexibility in adapting to a rapidly changing environment. Excellent presentation skills to engage and meet the needs of various audiences. Ophthalmology or Optometric sales background preferred. Customer knowledge with eye care specialists in local area preferred. Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills to effectively work with internal partners and a diverse and evolving customer base. Strong written and verbal communication skills. Must be able to communicate with many diverse customer audiences, therapeutic decision makers, and other influencers externally and internally. Strong organizational, analytical and business planning skills. Ability to work in a sales driven environment and exceed goals. Ability to travel adequately to cover territory, as well as overnight attendance at training meetings. Ability to lift 35 pounds.

Key Stakeholders

External : Influential Physicians, Key Opinion Leaders, and hospitals. Internal : Sales Representatives, National Sales Managers, Business Unit Managers, Commercial Directors, and other in-field roles.

Additional Information

The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical / dental / vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees. This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. Note : No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company's sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law. 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. US & Puerto Rico only - to learn more, visit https : / / www.abbvie.com / join-us / equal-employment-opportunity-employer.html US & Puerto Rico applicants seeking a reasonable accommodation, click here to learn more : https : / / www.abbvie.com / join-us / reasonable-accommodations.html Salary : $106,500 - $202,500