Senior Product Specialist-Oncology, Hyderabad

Job Description Summary

As a Product Specialist at Novartis, you’ll build strong relationships with healthcare professionals and deliver solutions that make a real difference for patients. By personalizing your approach, using data, and working closely with your team, you’ll help us achieve our mission—making every interaction and outcome matter.

 

Job Description

Job Title: Product Specialist
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Location: Hyderabad

Key Responsibilities

• Drive sales of priority oncology molecules across premium pharma accounts and hospital networks

• Build strong relationships with key decision-makers and KOLs to support product adoption

• Manage state government business including tenders, empanelment, and institutional access

• Ensure product availability in hospitals and support stock liquidation and repurchase cycles

• Generate demand through targeted engagement with doctors and medical service teams

• Handle both trade and government channels to maximize reach and impact

• Collaborate with hospitals for medical service empanelment and account activation

• Use data insights to plan territory actions and optimize sales performance

Role Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years of sales experience in healthcare, pharma, or related industries

• Strong knowledge of the assigned territory and customer landscape

• Bachelor’s degree in science or pharmacy (B.Sc or B.Pharma)

• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills

• Proven ability to collaborate across teams and deliver customer value

• Experience in medical oncology/blood cancer/hematology therapy area is a must.

Desirable Requirements

Experience in oncology sales or working with oncology-focused healthcare professionals

Familiarity with Novartis’ oncology therapeutic portfolio and patient-centric engagement strategies

Why Novartis:
Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us! Learn more here: https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture

You’ll receive: You can find everything you need to know about our benefits and rewards in the Novartis Life Handbook. https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:
Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.

Accessibility and accommodation
Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to diversityandincl.india@novartis.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message

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Skills Desired

Account Management, Cancer, Commercial Excellence, Communication Skills, Compliance, Conflict Management, Cross-Functional Coordination, Customer Insights, Ethics, Healthcare Sector, Hematology, Influencing Skills, Medical Oncology, Negotiation Skills, Oncology, Oncology Sales, Selling Skills, Technical Skills