Rare Disease Specialist - Northwest US territory

The Rare Disease Specialist- Northwest will be responsible for executing strategic field initiatives in line with corporate goals and driving our market development objectives around disease awareness, disease education, antibody testing and account understanding.

This role will work remotely and cover Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska. Significant overnight domestic travel is required of this role.

Responsibilities

Market Development Strategy and Execution

• Consistently achieve assigned corporate objectives through the promotion of patient-centered disease education to HCPs to improve patient care while adhering to corporate compliance guidelines.
• Implement goals of the marketing plan through execution of strategic account business plan.
• Contribute to the market development strategies and execute the comprehensive strategies aligned with Savara’s goals and objectives.
• Establish productive business relationships with key local, regional, and national KOLs within the geographical coverage area and assigned therapeutic areas.

Training and Development

• Develops and maintains a high-level in-depth disease and therapeutic clinical and scientific knowledge.
• Utilize a consultative presentation approach enabling the specialist to meet the needs of healthcare professionals who treat aPap patients.
• Execute all of the above with a strong understanding and adherence to compliance and corporate policies including appropriate documentation and reporting.

Collaboration, Analysis and Planning

• Partner with Marketing, Medical Affairs, and Market Access teams to ensure alignment of commercialization strategies.
• Develop plans that will contribute to the long-term evolution of the territory.
• Analyze data including business statistics and customer feedback that provides an information framework for the development of regional business plans.
• Serve as the connection for relevant market information from the field to the home office and make recommendations on changes.
• Demonstrated experience working in a matrix environment, which will encompass Case Managers, Medical Affairs, Patient access team, and other parties as deemed necessary.
• Effectively utilize all available resources and programs including peer to peer education and cross functional partners within the company to address identified knowledge gaps.
• Consistently operates within the company’s compliance framework to ensure compliance with applicable laws, rules, and regulations.
• Other duties and projects as assigned.

Required Qualifications

Location and Travel

• This role will work remotely and cover the Northwest territory. Significant domestic/regional travel is required.

Savara provides comprehensive benefits including:

• Highly competitive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible Spending Accounts for health care and dependent care expenses
• Paid time off and paid holidays, including Dec 24-Jan 1
• Paid parental leave
• 401k with highly competitive match
• Life, AD&D, STD and LTD insurance coverage

Savara’s compensation can include an annualized salary, bonus, and equity. The salary range for this role is $175,000 to $225,000. 

About Savara:

Savara is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on rare respiratory diseases. Our lead product candidate, MOLBREEVI*, is an inhaled recombinant human granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) in Phase 3 development for autoimmune pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (autoimmune PAP). MOLBREEVI* is delivered via a proprietary investigational eFLOW® Nebulizer System (PARI Pharma GmbH) specifically developed for inhalation of MOLBREEVI*.

Our management team has significant experience in orphan drug development and pulmonary medicine, identifying unmet needs, and effectively advancing product candidates to approval and commercialization.

Our goal is to become a leader in rare respiratory disease therapeutics through the development and commercialization of novel, best-in-class medicines that address unmet medical needs in this field.

Savara is an equal opportunity employer.

*MOLBREEVI is the proposed trade name for molgramostim inhalation solution. It is not approved in any indication. MOLBREEVI is a trademark of Savara Inc.

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