Skin Quality Specialist, Facial Aesthetics - British Columbia - 9 month contract

Joining Allergan Aesthetics (AA), an AbbVie company means, you will be part of a team of outstanding professionals dedicated to making a remarkable impact on patients’ lives. AA exists to empower confidence for consumers and customers, creating products and technologies that drive the advancement of aesthetic medicine. We believe in the power of shaping your own life, your own business, your own look – and we continue to evolve our business around the needs of those we serve. United by our shared belief in what we do and a commitment to doing what is right, we bring our best every day to empower confidence.

Our Skin Quality Specialist focuses on SkinVive and our SkinMedica portfolio and develops robust business plans to execute brand strategies and tactics in the field. They deliver sales performance, build strong customer relationships and support customer needs to maximize short- and long-term sales targets, all while placing the patient at the center of any efforts and operating within AbbVie’s business code of conduct, policies and all applicable laws and regulations.

Key responsibilities:

• Deliver sales performance, brand KPIs, financial targets, marketing objectives in order to meet or exceed business objectives.
• Create pre-call plans and execute post-call evaluation to continuously improve sales performance.
• Proactively and continuously engage and collaborate with key stakeholders in support of their needs, expectations, and challenges, to build trusted relationships.
• Execute a call plan that achieves set metrics and optimizes coverage of key customers, to maximize sales opportunities.
• Continuously build understanding of customer needs and expectations, territory landscape, competitors, market segments/dynamics, accounts, products, and clinical expertise. Share this market intelligence information with sales manager and respective team members, in order to achieve alignment, to anticipate environmental change and to optimize brand strategy and its execution.
• Differentiate Allergan Aesthetics value proposition with healthcare providers and identify, develop and maintain knowledge, market insights and speakers/advocates to maximize brand performance.

Education/Experience Preferred:

• Bachelor's degree in Commerce, Science or equivalent.
• Minimum of two years in a Sales role within the aesthetic/and or retail industry.
• Physician/account-based selling, training, managed health care, B2B experience or Marketing experience preferred.
• Proven track record in sales and solid presentation skills.
• Strong ability to proactively identify customer style / behavior and to quickly adapts all aspects of selling approach.
• Strong business acumen and proficient use of business tools; possesses strategic and critical thinking capabilities.
• Offers innovative ideas and solutions to maximize business opportunities for the larger organization and anticipates and responds to changes or challenges.
• Viewed as a credible and respected role model and resource among peers. Builds collaborative partnership with regional colleagues and team, etc.

Essential skills & abilities:

• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Word, etc.)
• Must be at ease with technology (the use of various tools/systems to perform day-to-day tasks).
• Position requires evening/ weekend work from time to time, including overnight travel.
• Valid driver’s license and passport.

Key in-field team competencies:

• Ability to think strategically to support the development of a high-quality territory plans.
• In-depth analytical skills, to enable appropriate and optimal understanding of data, to assess business outcomes in the decision-making process and achieve strategic goals.
• Effectively communicate and collaborate with in-field team members, to develop and maximize integrated account plans.
• Ability to leverage the connection with cross-functional team for business outcomes and market insights.

Why Allergan Aesthetics?

We believe in the work that we do and together we create the products and technologies that drive the advancement of aesthetic medicine. Our principles are shaped to empower us to deliver on that promise:

•    Making your practice our purpose (YPOP)
•    Inclusive of all people
•    Putting science at the core
•    Creating what’s next?
•    Connecting to patients.

We show up every day, energized by the chance to make a real difference in people’s lives. So, every day is one that counts. Aligning your interests with our imperatives as a business, you always have opportunities to step up and reach higher. So, we foster an inclusive, supportive environment where you’re empowered to ask questions, think big and build on each other's best ideas.

Voted as a Great Place to Work consecutively, and around the globe, we pride ourselves in providing our employees with the flexibility to ensure a healthy work-life balance. We take our impact on the environment and society seriously, so we focus ‘giving back’ regularly. We are committed to equity, equality, diversity, and inclusion (EED&I) - it is fundamental to who we are, and it is just how we “do good business.” This includes valuing diverse perspectives, creating an inclusive culture and treating all employees with dignity and respect.

AbbVie is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion.  It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.