Job Description
Grow and accelerate your career with our Oncology Sales organization and join a team that’s driven to make an impact on cancer patients. We take a customer-centric approach by leveraging emerging digital technologies and data analytics to better understand our patients' needs and design ingenious solutions to meet them. Developing your career with us will allow you to join a group of professionals, driven by purpose and determined to help save and improve lives.
Help us continue to grow and define the oncology market of today and tomorrow with a driven, customer-focused and collaborative team. As an Oncology Sales Representative/Specialist, you will be a key member partnering with customers to address identified needs, educating key stakeholders about our oncology products and communicating our vision to the broader oncology community.
- This is a field-based sales position that will be responsible for the North Carolina East territory. Major workload centers in the territory include Columbia, SC; Fayetteville, NC; Myrtle Beach, SC and Wilmington, NC.
- Candidates must reside within the territory.
- Candidates must be willing to travel to visit with customers in-person and for national sales meetings.
- Travel varies based on candidate’s location within or near the territory and this position may require 25% overnight travel per month.
Key responsibilities include and may not be limited to:
- Serve as a primary point of contact for customers and meet with key stakeholders to understand practice structure, business model, and key influencers, while building relationships and trust to uncover and comprehend their needs.
- Use appropriate resources to create a compelling and logical rationale for the value of our Oncology products during informed discussions with customers, knowing how to compare, contrast, and position our brand(s) versus competitor products.
- Possess knowledge of cancer staging, possible treatment options, and dosing schedules associated with different tumors/diseases, recognizing the impact of those options on patients.
- Understand the significance and use of clinical trials in multiple tumor types/therapies, both in impact on promoted products and in practice behavior of the account.
- Analyze and identify trends in a complex buying environment, including multiple channels of drug distribution (Oncology group purchasing organizations, wholesalers, and specialty pharmacies).
- Review and evaluate patterns for products purchased and prescribed (outpatient vs in-patient infusion, as part of hospital contract, etc.).
- Comprehend complex account interdependencies to proactively develop and execute short- and long-term account plans in collaboration with the account team and supervisor (known as the Oncology Customer Team Leader).
- Share learnings and best practices from one customer to another to help others meet their needs.
- Influence beyond their specific territory or product/indication area and ask strategic, insightful questions to obtain information about customer needs, use these insights to position our Oncology products/indications accordingly, and collaborate with customers on a customized strategy.
- Ensure a consistent customer experience across our Company’s division and functional areas and share key learnings to support customer needs by effectively communicating and collaborating with the in-scope customer team: Customer Team Leader, Key Account Manager, Nurse Educator, Field Reimbursement Associate, Medicare Account Executive, and more.
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree with at least 6 years of 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.
- 0 - 2 years of field-based experience.
- Valid driver’s license and able to drive a vehicle.
- Travel the amount of time the role requires.
- Legally authorized to work in the United States.
Preferred Experience and Skills:
- 2+ years of field-based experience, selling an oncology therapeutic to oncology customers.
- Documented history of strong performance in a sales/marketing or oncology clinical role.
- Clinical oncology experience across multiple solid tumors.
Candidates that have 0 - 2 years of field-based experience, selling an oncology therapeutic to oncology customers will be hired at the S2 Oncology Sales Representative level.
Candidates with 2+ years of field-based experience, selling an oncology therapeutic to oncology customers will be hired at the S3 Oncology Sales Specialist level.
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Required Skills:
Nursing, Pharmaceutical Sales, Sales
Preferred Skills:
Oncology, Oncology Sales
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The salary range for this role is
$142,400.00 - $224,100.00
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.
You can apply for this role through 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:
08/7/2026*A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day BEFORE the listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day BEFORE the job posting end date.
Requisition ID: R404913
