An early-career pharmaceutical sales role designed for a motivated individual interested in developing strong foundational skills in sales, customer engagement, and territory management. Reporting to the Director of Business Operations (DBO), the Sales Representative, Vacancy Management will support prospecting initiatives across key territories, including identifying appropriate targets and lead qualification to drive sales growth, while partnering with Sales Leadership to prioritize prospecting efforts aligned to strategic goals. Secondarily, they will work collaboratively with Sales and Patient Access Services (PAS) teams to maintain a positive customer experience and demand generation during periods of representation disruption The role will bridge the gap between Territory Business Manager vacancies and leaves of absence through flexible coverage, including virtual support and potential in-person engagement, to ensure territories remain properly covered and business disruption is minimized. Sales Representatives must be geographically flexible to cover short-term territory assignments when in-person coverage is required. 

Why join Team Alkermes?

Alkermes applies its decades of deep neuroscience expertise to develop medicines designed to help people living with complex and difficult-to-treat psychiatric and neurological disorders. A global biopharmaceutical company, headquartered in Ireland with U.S. locations in Massachusetts and Ohio, we seek to make a meaningful difference in the way people manage their diseases. We have a portfolio of proprietary commercial products for the treatment of alcohol dependence, opioid dependence, schizophrenia, bipolar I disorder and narcolepsy, and a pipeline of clinical and preclinical candidates in development for various psychiatric and neurological disorders.

We are proud to have been recognized as an employer of choice by many national organizations. In 2024 and 2025, we were certified as a Great Place to Work in the U.S. and named one of Massachusetts’ Top Places to Work by the Boston Globe, a Best Place to Work in Greater Cincinnati by the Cincinnati Business Courier and recognized as a Best Place to Work in BioPharma by Fortune Magazine. 

Alkermes, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any qualified applicant or employee because of race, creed, color, age, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender expression and identity, disability, genetic information, veteran status, military status, application for military service or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal law.  Alkermes also complies with all work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA.  Alkermes is an E-Verify employer.