Neuroscience Sales Specialist (Portland East) – Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine (Neuroscience)

Location: Portland, Oregon, United States. The Portland East territory includes the metro area and Vancouver, Washington. The role involves in-person and virtual visits to healthcare professional offices and mental health community centers, overnight territory travel as needed, and periodic domestic travel to headquarters, training, and sales meetings.

Company

Johnson & Johnson develops healthcare solutions and medicines, with the Innovative Medicine business focused on advancing treatments for complex diseases and improving patient outcomes.

What you will do

• Drive compliant sales performance within the assigned neuroscience territory and meet or exceed sales forecasts.
• Engage healthcare professionals and mental health community centers in person and virtually, tailoring discussions to customer needs.
• Develop local strategic and tactical business plans with the Regional Business Manager and key stakeholders.
• Use territory budgets, marketing resources, and customer programs effectively to support business objectives.
• Monitor local markets, customer needs, influencers, sales metrics, and business opportunities.
• Maintain accurate sales call, customer, sample, expense, and administrative records while collaborating with other sales specialists.

Requirements

• At least two years of relevant experience in healthcare sales, account management, business-to-business sales, or recent active-duty military service.
• A bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university.
• Valid driver’s license and safe driving record.
• Strong customer relationship, communication, decision-making, collaboration, adaptability, and data-analysis skills.
• Ability to communicate technical information to diverse healthcare audiences and work in changing telemedicine and virtual environments.
• Ability to work outside normal hours when required and travel overnight or domestically as needed.

Nice to have

• Three or more years of specialty pharmaceutical sales experience.
• Launch, antipsychotic, or bipolar sales experience.
• Experience with neuroscience, clinical environments, pharmaceutical marketing, or strategic sales planning.
• Commitment to learning emerging technologies such as AI.

Culture & Benefits

• Patient-focused work supporting treatments for neuropsychiatric and other complex diseases.
• Ethical and compliant engagement guided by company policies and procedures.
• Inclusive workplace with support for applicant and employee accommodations.
• Structured training and ongoing job-related learning.

Hiring process

• Application and CV review.
• Short recorded video interview followed by a recruiter phone conversation.
• One or two interviews with the hiring manager and team, followed by country-specific checks for successful candidates.