Lisa Atkinson
***** **** **** ***** ************, OH 44136
440-***-**** *************@*****.***
OBJECTIVE: Results-driven sales professional pursuing a position that will allow me to apply my dynamic sales, communication, leadership and organizational skills.
PROFILE: • Offers numerous years of progressive experience in facilitating sales of pharmaceutical products
• Excels in defining, targeting and penetrating markets
• Dynamic consultative, solution, suggestive, and prospecting selling skills
• Superior communication, negotiation, presentation, and relationship building abilities
EDUCATION: BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY Bowling Green, Ohio
Bachelor of Arts, Visual Merchandising/Marketing May 1998
EXPERIENCE: Novo Nordisk Inc. Parsippany, NJ
Mar. 07-June 11 Diabetes Care Specialist II
• Successfully launched a product in an under-utilized class
• Received multiple awards for sales performance and increased breadth on targeted physicians
• Won multiple contests for first time writers and NBRx
• 2010 member of the WINN (Women in Novo Nordisk) team
• Effectively promotes four products in a complicated disease state to physicians, pharmacists, nurses, and other paramedical customers
• Selling in a disease state that requires the knowledge to determine and recommend the most appropriate product and approved usage for the needs of the patient
• Effectively explain and promote the features and benefits of Novo Nordisk’s portfolio of products, with an emphasis on which products are best suited for particular patient profiles or circumstances
• Obtaining maximum commitment from customers on every call by identifying, developing, maintaining, and leveraging relationships with physicians, pharmacists, nurses, and other individuals who make or influence purchasing/prescribing decisions
Daiichi Sankyo Inc. Parsippany, NJ
May 04-Mar. 07 Sales Representative II
• Held the 12th highest market share for a product that is one of seven in its class
• Nominated to be on the “Benicar Task Force;” which consists of two people representing the region
• Successfully Represented 4 products in a geographical territory.
• Effectively promoted dual products to physicians and other health care providers by communicating the unique features and benefits that the medicines provide
• Early tiered to Sales Representative II
• Received the “Incredible of the Quarter” award for 3 straight quarters
• Became an Administrative Assistant to DM
• Became a SuperUser for a new software program
• As a SuperUser, I was to train an entire district on the new software
• Made Producers Report April and May 2005
• May 2005 Producers Report: 2nd in the Region
• Nominated to be a member of the Blue Cross/Blue Shield task force for region
• Numerous Arigato Awards
Remedy Intelligent Staffing, Marina Del Rey, CA
Apr. 02-May 04 Sales Representative
• Cold Calling
• Sold Permanent and temporary staffing services
• Responsible for a very large territory based on the west side of Los Angeles
• Promoted to Downtown/Mid-Wilshire territory
• Developed sales campaigns
• Excelled in meeting and exceeding goals-120% to quota-paper track record
SKILLS & • Microsoft office, Evolve Delivery Manager-Paratrac, Paralinc, ACT, Seibel, ETMS, VPN
ACTIVITES: • Member of American Diabetes Association