Specialty Representative (Gastroenterology)

Location: Field-based in North Chicago, Illinois, United States, covering the area north of the Chicago River to the Wisconsin border and west to Aurora, Illinois. Candidates should live within a reasonable distance of the primary city.

Salary: $78,500–$192,500 annual base pay, depending on experience and other factors.

Company

hirify.global develops medicines and healthcare solutions across areas including immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and aesthetics.

What you will do

• Execute gastroenterology brand strategy, sales tactics, marketing objectives, and financial targets within the assigned territory.
• Plan and conduct customer calls, handle objections, secure calls to action, and continuously improve sales performance.
• Build trusted relationships with specialty physicians, pharmacists, nurses, and other healthcare stakeholders.
• Analyze customer needs, competitors, market dynamics, disease states, products, and clinical information to improve territory performance.
• Develop and maintain relationships with disease-state experts, speakers, and advocates.
• Collaborate with field teams, sales management, marketing, training, customer excellence, and brand stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in health, science, pharmacy, or business, or equivalent industry experience; a high school diploma or GED is required.
• At least five years of equivalent industry experience may substitute for a bachelor’s degree, with three or more years in the pharmaceutical, health, or science industry preferred.
• Proven success in sales, strong presentation skills, customer-focused selling, and the ability to adapt selling approaches.
• Scientific, therapeutic, product, competitive, and business knowledge, along with strategic and critical thinking skills.
• Must satisfy healthcare industry representative credentialing requirements for assigned facilities, which may include background checks, drug screening, immunization records, fingerprinting, and required licenses.
• Valid driver’s license, ability to drive a personal or company vehicle, safe driving record, and ability to pass a pre-employment drug screening.

Nice to have

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant health, science, pharmacy, or business field.
• Pharmaceutical commercial experience in physician or account-based selling, training, managed healthcare, or marketing.
• Experience and sales success in the relevant therapeutic area.
• Documented leadership or support experience at district, regional, or organizational level.

Culture & Benefits

• Paid vacation, holidays, and sick leave.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for eligible employees.
• 401(k) plan for eligible employees.
• Eligibility for short-term incentive programs.
• Work is conducted in a field-based territory with collaboration across matrixed commercial and brand teams.