How This Board Works

Updated November 7, 2026

Listings come from employers’ public careers sites. We organize them into a searchable board and link you to the employer to confirm details and apply.

Where the listings come from

Roles are fetched from employers’ public job boards. Applications are handled on their sites.

How often it updates

Updates are scheduled twice daily at 3 a.m. and 3 p.m. Eastern. Application links, employer names, titles and cities help reduce duplicates, and where the employer’s system publishes a requisition number, one requisition posted at several places is one listing with all of them. Failed or incomplete reads can delay updates; a listing is not a guarantee a role is still open.

What counts as a medical sales role

Sales roles are the focus, with the clinical roles that support a sale in the field, such as clinical specialists. Roles that serve a customer only after the sale, such as customer success with no renewals, growth or sales goal of its own, are not listed. Field reimbursement and field access roles are not listed: they are barred from promoting, like medical science liaisons. Nor are roles selling research and lab tools to universities and drug makers’ laboratories, or research, testing, data and software services to drug and device makers; a contract sales rep selling a client’s medicine or device is listed. General back-office and unrelated clinical jobs are excluded. Student placements have a separate internships page.

How we decide a listing’s industry

Every listing is filed under one industry. At most companies what the employer sells decides it, not what the company calls itself and not a word in the job title. For a medicine, the FDA’s license decides: a role selling a biologic, which the FDA licenses under a Biologics License Application, such as an antibody or another protein, a vaccine, a blood product or a cell or gene therapy, is filed under biotech, and a role selling a chemical drug, which the FDA approves as a drug, under pharmaceutical. A posting that names its medicines is filed by them. One that names both kinds, or none, takes its employer’s main kind: where the employer’s reported sales come from or, for a company that reports none, the medicines it has approved, or, for a company with none approved yet, the kind of the lead medicine it is developing. A role that names no medicine but sells a product line every medicine of which is of one kind, such as vaccines, all of them licensed as biologics, is filed by that kind. So a role at a company that calls itself biotech can be filed under pharmaceutical, and a role at a large drug maker under biotech. Gene sequencing and most makers of lab instruments and supplies are filed under diagnostics, and tissue and regenerative products, such as skin substitutes and bone grafts, under medical device.

Health IT and software is software and data sold to providers, payers and employers, such as health records, billing systems and clinical AI. Care services is companies whose business is delivering care, in person or virtually, such as behavioral health programs, telehealth and kidney care; a company that sells software to care providers is health IT and software. Distribution is companies that supply hospitals, practices and pharmacies with products other companies make. Home medical equipment and care is companies that serve patients at home, with oxygen and other equipment, supplies, infusion or care.

Beyond the medicines it names, the posting decides only where the employer alone cannot. At a company we file under more than one industry, such as Johnson & Johnson or Abbott, the posting places the role among that company’s own industries: first a division the posting names, then a product the posting names for the role, such as a medicine or a contact lens. A posting that names no division but products from two of them keeps the company’s main industry. At a few of these companies, Johnson & Johnson and Abbott among them, the posting’s own words may then choose among its industries; otherwise the company’s main industry stands. A role placed among a company’s medicines is then filed by the kind of medicine, as above. Contract sales roles, which sell other companies’ products, follow the client’s medicine or the client: at most contract sales firms the posting decides, through the medicine or the client it names, and a posting that names neither can take the industry of the one client that other postings in the same program name. A client we file under more than one industry, such as AbbVie, decides only where the posting plainly sells medicines, and then by the client’s main kind of medicine. A posting that names no client and no medicine is filed under pharmaceutical, even where its words name no industry at all. At a firm we also file under an industry of its own, such as IQVIA, a client the posting names comes first, and a role selling the firm’s own services, such as its data, technology and marketing services, is filed under health IT and software. On the board we show that industry, never the client’s name; the Business live openings file names the client only where the posting states it outright, beside the sentence that states it.

We used to let any word in the posting decide, and words misled: “Oncology” in a title filed reps selling cancer tests under pharmaceutical, and “Biologics” filed wound-care reps under biotech. A company that sells in one industry does not change it from one posting to the next, so there the employer decides, and at a company in more than one the posting can only choose among that company’s own. Medicines are the exception, because one drug maker can sell both kinds and the two are sold differently: biologics often go through specialists, infusion centers and specialty pharmacies. Biotech used to mean gene sequencing and some tissue products, and nearly every drug maker was filed under pharmaceutical, whatever it sold; the FDA’s license is a public fact anyone can check against a listing, so now it decides. A role’s product line and call point are read mainly from the posting.

Each listing also records how its industry was decided, so a reader can tell an industry the posting gives from one its employer gives: the employer, where the company’s own industry stands or a posting naming no medicine takes its main kind; a medicine the posting names, by its FDA license; a product line all of one kind of medicine, such as vaccines, where the posting names no medicine; a division the posting states; a product the posting names for the role; products of two of the company’s industries, where its main one stands for that reason, or medicines of both kinds, where its main kind stands; the client a contract sales posting names, or the client that other postings in the same program name; a contract sales posting that names no client and no medicine, which is filed under pharmaceutical; or, where none of those decides, the posting’s own words. The Business live openings file carries it as its Industry basis column.

Division and sub-specialty

A listing always keeps its parent company. Where the posting itself names the division or business unit the role belongs to, such as Abbott’s Structural Heart or Johnson & Johnson’s DePuy Synthes, the listing carries that division too, read from the title, a labeled line such as “Division:” or a sentence about the unit, at the companies whose divisions we list. A product named in a title is not a division, and a paragraph that names three or more of a company’s divisions decides nothing. Where a posting names no division, or names two, the division is left blank; we never infer it from what the company sells.

A listing filed under Cardiovascular, Orthopedics or Neuro / neuromodulation can also carry a sub-specialty, such as Electrophysiology, Structural heart, Trauma or Foot and ankle, but only where the posting names one for the job: in the title first, otherwise in the duties, through a procedure, device, division or brand named for the role. A sentence about the applicant’s experience or a list of the company’s whole portfolio does not count, and a role filed under pharmaceutical or biotech, which sells a medicine, gets none. Nothing is inferred from the employer, with one exception: at a few companies that sell a single product in one sub-specialty, such as Treace Medical’s foot and ankle systems, a posting that names none takes that one, and the Business live openings file marks it as coming from the employer. Where the title names none and the duties name two different ones, it is left blank; a title that joins two into one job, such as “Trauma and Reconstruction”, carries both.

How we read the experience a role asks for

Each listing is filed by the fewest years of experience its posting requires, and the Experience filter groups listings by that figure: no experience required, one year, two to three years, four to five years, six years or more, or not specified. Its “At least” choices, from one year or more to ten years or more, show the listings whose figure is that many years or more, so an experienced rep can leave out entry-level roles; a figure the posting only prefers never counts toward them, and a listing with no figure is in none of them. Where a posting offers alternative routes, such as four years of clinical sales or one year of medical device sales, the shortest route decides. A route open only to the employer’s own staff is set aside, and so is one open only to holders of an advanced degree while another route is open without one, and a figure for managing people or key accounts on top of a selling figure does not lower the bar. A figure the posting only prefers is shown on the card, such as “5 yrs preferred”, but never sets the bar. A requirement written in months counts in years from twelve months up.

A listing is filed under “No experience required” when its posting says so, by calling the job entry level or experience helpful but not required; when its title is the industry’s name for a first job, such as Associate Sales Representative; or, for a role that is not senior, when the only bar the posting sets is a degree it requires, because a graduate qualifies. Its card then shows what the posting asked for: “None required”, “No minimum stated” for a degree with no years, or a figure the posting prefers. A degree the posting only prefers does not put a listing there, unless the degree sits under a heading that says the list is required.

A posting that requires experience but gives no number, such as “a proven track record of success in sales” or “experience selling into hospitals”, is not filed under “No experience required”, even where it also calls the job entry level. It is filed under not specified, and its card reads “Required, no minimum stated”, or the figure the posting prefers where it gives one. A requirement of less than a year, written in months, also keeps a listing out of “No experience required”.

The “Coming from outside medical sales” filter keeps each background’s years apart. Where a posting is open to someone from outside or business-to-business sales, or from clinical work, the years filed for that background are the ones the posting asks on that background’s own route, never another background’s figure.

United States only

Country, state, city and territory information help identify US roles. Where a posting names two or more states for where the job is worked, in its title, its location, what it says the territory covers, or where the person may live, the listing is marked multi-state and can be found from each of those states. Vague or conflicting locations can cause mistakes or missed listings. Confirm the territory and work arrangement with the employer.

Data and privacy

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Who runs it

MedSales Radar is built and run by one person, who reads the board the way a rep does — opening listings, checking what a card says against the posting behind it — and most of what has changed on this site started with something noticed that way. There is no content team: nothing here is written to fill a page, and nothing is sponsored.

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Why this board exists

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