Oncology Sales Representative , Breast Cancer
AstraZeneca · Virtual, British Columbia, Canada
*Please note, the territory for this role is British Columbia; candidates based in the Lower Mainland/Vancouver area are preferred
Travel: Regular travel throughout the BC Interior is required
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At AstraZeneca, we are redefining cancer care through science, innovation, and partnership. As a Breast Cancer Oncology Sales Representative, you will play a central role in helping healthcare professionals and institutions understand how our evidence-based portfolio can support patients living with breast cancer.
This is an opportunity for an experienced oncology professional who combines strong clinical credibility with strategic account leadership, commercial acumen, and a genuine commitment to improving patient outcomes. You will lead priority academic and community accounts across the BC Interior, working closely with healthcare professionals, medical colleagues, brand teams, and other cross-functional partners.
In this role, you will develop and execute a strategic territory plan that supports the appropriate adoption of AstraZeneca’s breast cancer portfolio. You will build trusted, compliant relationships with stakeholders across complex healthcare environments and translate clinical evidence into meaningful, insight-led conversations.
The successful candidate will be energized by a dynamic environment, comfortable navigating institutional account systems, and motivated by the opportunity to influence care through collaboration and high quality customer interactions.
Accountabilities:
- Lead the territory strategy: Develop and execute a data-driven territory business plan covering priority academic and community accounts across the BC Interior.
- Drive business performance: Achieve and exceed sales objectives by identifying opportunities, prioritizing resources, and delivering effective account strategies.
- Build strategic partnerships: Establish credibility and trusted relationships with key healthcare professionals, institutional stakeholders, and other members of the breast cancer care ecosystem.
- Deliver evidence-based engagement: Conduct high-quality, compliant discussions with healthcare professionals in complex clinical environments, using relevant clinical evidence and insights to support appropriate treatment decisions.
- Understand account dynamics: Analyze customer needs, local healthcare systems, access considerations, treatment pathways, and institutional priorities to identify opportunities for collaboration and improvement.
- Collaborate cross-functionally: Partner effectively with Sales, Medical, Diagnostics, Marketing, Market Access, and other internal colleagues to deliver coordinated customer engagement and value.
- Support impactful education: Plan and deliver relevant educational programs and activities for healthcare professionals in alignment with business priorities and applicable policies.
- Use digital and analytical tools: Apply CRM, omnichannel engagement, analytics, and other business tools to plan, execute, monitor, and improve territory performance.
- Demonstrate agility and ownership: Adapt quickly to changing customer, business, and healthcare-system needs while maintaining a high standard of execution, integrity, and accountability.
- Contribute to team success: Share insights, best practices, and market intelligence while strengthening collaboration across a high-performing and inclusive team.
Essential Skills/Experience:
- At least five years of pharmaceutical sales experience (2+ years oncology preferred), ideally with experience in breast cancer and a strong understanding of institutional account dynamics.
- Strategic account capability: Demonstrated success developing territory plans, managing complex accounts, prioritizing opportunities, and delivering measurable business results.
- Clinical and scientific credibility: The ability to understand and communicate clinical evidence clearly and appropriately with healthcare professionals.
- Influencing skills: Strong interpersonal, communication, presentation, negotiation, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to establish credibility quickly.
- Business acumen: A practical understanding of customer needs, healthcare-system dynamics, commercial priorities, and data-informed decision-making.
- Digital capability: Experience using CRM, analytics, virtual engagement, and omnichannel tools to improve customer interactions and business outcomes.
- Collaboration: A track record of working effectively across functions and contributing positively to team culture and performance.
- Adaptability: Organization, resourcefulness, resilience, and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced and changing environment.
- A university degree in science, business, or a related discipline.
Desirable Skills/Experience:
- Pharmaceutical launch experience
- AI capability Demonstrated proficiency with AI-enabled tools is an asset, as is a strong willingness to learn and apply them responsibly to support account planning, customer engagement, productivity, and data-informed decision-making.
Territory and travel
This position supports healthcare accounts across the BC Interior and requires regular travel throughout the territory. Candidates based in the Lower Mainland/Vancouver area are preferred, provided they are able and willing to travel regularly to BC Interior accounts and meet the role’s business and customer requirements.
Applicants based elsewhere in British Columbia who can meet the travel, territory, and location requirements are also encouraged to apply.
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Annual base salary for this position ranges from 115,646.40 to 151,785.90.AstraZeneca is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation opportunities to all colleagues. Our compensation policies and practices have been designed to allow colleagues to progress through the salary range over time as they progress in their role. The range provided in this posting represents an offer pay range used in a majority of situations. The base pay offered will vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including the candidate's skills and experience, job-related knowledge, and other specific business and organizational needs. In some cases, offers outside the range may also be considered to address unique circumstances.
In addition, our permanent positions offer an annual Variable Pay Bonus/Short Term Incentive opportunity as well as eligibility to participate in our equity-based long-term incentive program (if applicable to role). Benefits offered for permanent roles include a competitive Flex Benefits & Retirement Savings Program, 4 weeks’ paid vacation, and annual Personal Days