Senior professional sales representative vs senior sales representative

The differences between senior professional sales representatives and senior sales representatives can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. While it typically takes 1-2 years to become a senior professional sales representative, becoming a senior sales representative takes usually requires 2-4 years. Additionally, a senior professional sales representative has an average salary of $112,236, which is higher than the $82,550 average annual salary of a senior sales representative.

The top three skills for a senior professional sales representative include pharmaceutical products, neurology and disease state. The most important skills for a senior sales representative are customer satisfaction, product knowledge, and sales consultants.

Senior professional sales representative vs senior sales representative overview

	Senior Professional Sales Representative	Senior Sales Representative
Yearly salary	$112,236	$82,550
Hourly rate	$53.96	$39.69
Growth rate	4%	4%
Number of jobs	144,774	210,521
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 90%	Bachelor's Degree, 74%
Average age	47	47
Years of experience	2	4

Senior professional sales representative vs senior sales representative salary

Senior professional sales representatives and senior sales representatives have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Senior Professional Sales Representative	Senior Sales Representative
Average salary	$112,236	$82,550
Salary range	Between $68,000 And $182,000	Between $46,000 And $145,000
Highest paying City	-	Boston, MA
Highest paying state	-	Massachusetts
Best paying company	-	Google
Best paying industry	-	-

Differences between senior professional sales representative and senior sales representative education

There are a few differences between a senior professional sales representative and a senior sales representative in terms of educational background:

	Senior Professional Sales Representative	Senior Sales Representative
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 90%	Bachelor's Degree, 74%
Most common major	Business	Business
Most common college	University of Pennsylvania	SUNY College of Technology at Alfred

Senior professional sales representative vs senior sales representative demographics

Here are the differences between senior professional sales representatives' and senior sales representatives' demographics:

	Senior Professional Sales Representative	Senior Sales Representative
Average age	47	47
Gender ratio	Male, 55.9% Female, 44.1%	Male, 63.1% Female, 36.9%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 4.3% Unknown, 3.8% Hispanic or Latino, 13.1% Asian, 5.7% White, 73.0% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.2%	Black or African American, 3.8% Unknown, 3.7% Hispanic or Latino, 14.2% Asian, 5.1% White, 72.9% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.2%
LGBT Percentage	6%	6%

Differences between senior professional sales representative and senior sales representative duties and responsibilities

Senior professional sales representative example responsibilities.

Manage Santa Rosa/San Francisco territories, marketing and selling respiratory, urology, cardiology to pharmacies and primary care physicians.
Focuse on COPD, asthma, and diabetes product launches, and new inhaler training for all nurses and pharmacists.
Hire as part of the diabetes alliance start-up between Boehringer-Ingelheim and Eli Lilly.
Market pain franchise, including sales of chronic pain products in pain, neurology, and GI specialties.
Manage Santa Rosa/San Francisco territories, marketing and selling respiratory, urology, cardiology to pharmacies and primary care physicians.
Promote Risperdal (anti-psychotic), Reminyl (Alzheimer acetylcholinesterase inhibitor) and Durgesic

Senior sales representative example responsibilities.

Manage regional MRI techs and schedules.
Manage educational speaker programs for physicians, nurses and pharmacists, introducing new oncology products.
Generate leads and evangelize product to physicians in orthopedics, hematology, internal medicine, surgery, critical care and cardiology.
Train new ISR's on purchasing skills.
Field service representative for HMO and PPO accounts.
Create and present PowerPoint presentations and train large groups of sales representatives.

Senior professional sales representative vs senior sales representative skills

Common senior professional sales representative skills

Pharmaceutical Products, 14%
Neurology, 9%
Disease State, 9%
Market Share Growth, 8%
Sales Growth, 6%
Sales Performance, 5%

Common senior sales representative skills

Customer Satisfaction, 21%
Product Knowledge, 11%
Sales Consultants, 8%
Customer Relationships, 8%
Sales Process, 7%
Customer Service, 6%

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Updated January 8, 2025

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