Neuroscience Sales Specialist (Neuroscience)

Location: Washington, DC territory, including Bethesda and Silver Spring, Maryland, United States. Must live in the geography or be willing to relocate to it. The role requires travel of up to 50%, including possible overnight and weekend travel.

Salary: $79,000–$127,650 base pay for Sales Specialist; higher ranges apply to Senior Sales Specialist and Executive Sales Specialist levels.

Company

Johnson & Johnson develops healthcare solutions and innovative medicines across complex disease areas, including neuroscience.

What you will do

• Engage healthcare professionals and stakeholders using customer-specific approaches aligned with practitioner priorities, institutional needs, and patient outcomes.
• Develop expertise in the Neuroscience portfolio, including Caplyta, and communicate approved clinical and scientific information using authorized materials.
• Create and execute territory and account plans, prioritize stakeholders, and optimize selling time across accounts and care settings.
• Analyze business and market data to identify opportunities, assess performance, and adjust execution strategies.
• Apply knowledge of payer access, affordability, and reimbursement dynamics to support appropriate therapy utilization and adherence.
• Collaborate with internal partners and customers across face-to-face, virtual, and digital channels while maintaining healthcare compliance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required; MS, MBA, or PhD preferred.
• Valid driver’s license issued by one of the 50 United States required.
• At least three years of relevant experience in healthcare sales, account management, customer-facing roles, business-to-business sales, or recent active-duty military service.
• Must live in the Washington, DC geography or be willing to relocate there.
• Experience with structured selling, problem solving, partnership building, strategic sales planning, cross-functional collaboration, and data analysis.
• Ability to travel up to 50%, including overnight and weekend travel.

Nice to have

• Experience in the Neuroscience therapeutic area, complex accounts, institutional environments, or integrated delivery networks.
• Experience with payer access, reimbursement, affordability, or sales in a competitive environment.
• Clinical and scientific communication experience using approved materials.
• Conversational Spanish alongside English.
• Experience learning and applying emerging technologies such as AI.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive work environment focused on individual dignity, diversity, and patient impact.
• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, business accident, and group legal insurance.
• Pension and 401(k) savings plans, plus eligibility for a long-term incentive program.
• Vacation, sick time, holidays, parental leave, caregiver leave, volunteer leave, and other paid leave programs.

Hiring process

• Application and CV review followed by a short recorded video interview.
• Recruiter phone discussion and one or two interviews with the hiring manager and team.
• Successful candidates complete country-specific checks before starting.