罕见病客户专员，PAH

**Job Description**

Our Sales team supports our customers by providing appropriate clinical information about our Company products, educational information, and resources. We strive to support healthcare providers and healthcare systems in their efforts to help meet the goals of the patients in their communities.

We are looking for dynamic individuals who thrive in a team environment and are driven to succeed. The Rare Disease Account Specialist serves as a key point of contact to customer accounts for our Company’s Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) business. This role is critical in establishing our presence in PAH and our commitment to supporting the efforts of PAH healthcare providers in improving patient health outcomes. This role will generate demand for our Company's products, build and maintain a strong rapport with providers and office staff, engage and support account executives who help secure formulary access, and design account strategies to meet local customer needs.

- This is a field-based sales position that is responsible for covering the state of Colorado.

- Major workload centers in this territory include and may not be limited to: Denver, Colorado Springs, Grand Junction, and Fort Collins.

- Travel (%) depends on where the selected candidate resides and the needs of the business and may be required ~25% of the time.

**Primary Activities & Responsibilities include and may not limited to the following:**

**Account Management:**

- Responsible for the overall customer experience of all stakeholders within target accounts; builds relationships with providers and staff, as appropriate, and acts as cross-functional point of contact
- Develops deep understanding of account objectives, strategies, unique challenges, and stakeholder influence networks to generate strategic insights
- Plans & conducts quarterly strategic planning sessions for key accounts with relevant our Company stakeholders to create shared understanding of market context, account, & stakeholder needs and refine account strategy, including objectives, strategic imperatives, and tactics
- Relevant Company stakeholders includes both customer-facing and HQ roles
- Coordinates the execution of account strategies, tracks progress against objectives, and refines plans as needed to deliver on goals
- Proactively solicits feedback from account stakeholders to better understand needs and become a trusted resource

**Care Team Engagement:**

- Provides approved disease and product information and resources to approved members of the patient care team, including MDs, NPs, PAs, and other provider roles
- Shares information on target profiles to support the identification of appropriate patients for therapy
- Supports the education of and responds to questions from approved providers on the care team on the appropriate administration of our Company products
- Provides information and education to appropriate providers using approved resources on our Company’s patient support program to help address patient access and coverage issues
- Acts as the primary point of contact for all care team stakeholders and coordinates with other Company customer-facing roles to ensure customer needs are met in a compliant, orchestrated fashion
- Demonstrates commitment to compliance through understanding of regulations, industry codes, and policies that govern customer interactions and consistent focus on ensuring compliance with them

**Ecosystem Management:**

- Partners with internal colleagues to plan and host medical education events within designated territory
- Attends and supports our Company presence at national & local congress/society events
- Proactively creates connections across care teams within designated territory to build appropriate provider-provider relationships
- Partners with HQ role(s) to plan and execute events with key thought leaders practicing within a designated territory

**Key Capabilities & Competencies:**

**Scientific/Clinical Proficiency**

- Deep understanding of clinical and scientific aspects of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, competitor products, and our Company products:
- Disease state knowledge
- Standards of care and emerging clinical trends
- Relevant diagnostics and testing
- Patient demographics

**Ecosystem Understanding**

- Deep understanding of regional and local health care networks: stakeholders and their relative level of influence, referral dynamics, payer controls, patient demographics, specialty pharmacy activity, etc.
- Understanding of access & insurance coverage processes in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, specifically those of payers most active in designated territory

**Business Acumen**

- Ability to understand and define customer business models and infer strategic objectives
- Ability to create account strategies that deliver on both our Company and customer objectives
- Understanding of customer business operations and Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension practice management standards

**Collaboration**

- Ability to effectively and efficiently partner with appropriate cross-functional our Company stakeholders to develop and execute customer strategies & tactics
- Ability to lead without authority across individuals in different reporting structures to ensure execution against objectives
- Ability to partner with other Rare Disease Account Specialists to share best practices, peer-coach new team members, and create an environment of continual learning

**Qualifications:**

**Minimum Requirements:**

- Bachelor’s degree with 8 years Sales experience or a minimum of high school diploma with at least 10 years of equivalent experience.
- Equivalent experience can be: Professional sales experience, work experience in the healthcare/scientific field (including pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical devices) that is not sales related, professional marketing experience, or military experience.
- Minimum of 8 years’ experience in healthcare industry
- Valid Driver's license and ability to travel the amount of time the role requires
- Keen interpersonal skills, including abilities to interact with individuals from a variety of backgrounds and to influence senior levels of management, key thought leaders, and customers
- Strong presentation and communication skills, including the ability to understand, distill, and convey complex scientific and public health-related concepts to different audiences
- Strong prioritization skills and ability contextualize decisions into broader corporate strategies
- Technologically proficient (e.g., MS Office Suite, iPad)

**Preferred:**

- Advanced degree (e.g., MBA, PharmD)
- Minimum of 2 years current/recent experience in the Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension market
- Minimum of 2 years current/recent experience with rare disease products
- 2+ years of account management experience in the healthcare industry

#PAHSales

**Required Skills:**

Account Management, Customer-Focused, Customer Relationship Building, Interpersonal Relationships, Lead Generation, Pharmaceutical Market, Prioritization, Product Knowledge, Revenue Generation, Sales Forecasting, Sales Pipeline Management, Sales Presentations, Sales Proficiency, Sales Strategy Development, Sales Training

**Preferred Skills:**

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The salary range for this role is

$156,900.00 - $247,000.00

This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, government requirements, and business or organizational needs.

The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits.  Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days. More information about benefits is available at [https://jobs.merck.com/us/en/compensation-and-benefits](https://jobs.merck.com/us/en/compensation-and-benefits).

You can apply for this role through [https://jobs.merck.com/us/en](https://jobs.merck.com/us/en) (or via the Workday Jobs Hub if you are a current employee). The application deadline for this position is stated on this posting.

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**Employee Status:**

Regular

**Relocation:**

No relocation

**VISA Sponsorship:**

No

**Travel Requirements:**

25%

**Flexible Work Arrangements:**

Remote

**Shift:**

Not Indicated

**Valid Driving License:**

Yes

**Hazardous Material(s):**

n/a

**Job Posting End Date:**

10/12/2026

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