344 live medical sales postings at 29 employers name transitioning military as a background they will take. That is 4% of 9,364 postings with a description. It is the fourth most named background, after outside or B2B sales, a clinical or allied-health background and scientific or technical work. The employers are named below, most first, with the industries and call points the roles are in.
The posting names transitioning or separated service members, junior military officers, a military pathway or program, military experience or service as a qualification, or a comparable invitation, anywhere in its text. Equal-opportunity and protected-veteran statements are excluded sentence by sentence, so a posting counts only for an invitation of its own.
A posting is counted only when its own text names the background as an accepted or invited route into the role. An employer that hires from it without saying so is not counted, so absence here is not evidence of anything. Of the 344 postings, 152 state an overall experience requirement of one year or less.
Every employer with 5 or more live postings naming it, most first. The share is of that employer's own postings in the population.
| Employer | Postings naming it | Of | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 117 | 404 | 29% |
| Novartis | 51 | 65 | 78% |
| Johnson & Johnson | 38 | 116 | 33% |
| Pfizer | 20 | 51 | 39% |
| IQVIA | 16 | 55 | 29% |
| Merit Medical | 16 | 16 | 100% |
| Abbott | 15 | 304 | 5% |
| Esperion Therapeutics | 13 | 15 | 87% |
| ZOLL Medical | 13 | 42 | 31% |
| CONMED | 7 | 20 | 35% |
| Inizio Engage | 6 | 92 | 7% |
| Merck | 5 | 12 | 42% |
| Industry | Postings naming it | Of | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medical device | 194 | 3,483 | 6% |
| Pharmaceutical | 92 | 2,848 | 3% |
| Biotech | 38 | 1,271 | 3% |
| Diagnostics | 16 | 708 | 2% |
| Health IT & software | 3 | 260 | 1% |
| Distribution | 1 | 232 | <1% |
| Call point | Postings naming it | Of | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating Room | 154 | 1,193 | 13% |
| Pharmacy | 6 | 69 | 9% |
| Payer | 4 | 94 | 4% |
| Physician Office | 138 | 3,564 | 4% |
| Cath Lab | 11 | 485 | 2% |
| Oncology Center | 12 | 532 | 2% |
| Emergency Critical Care | 2 | 94 | 2% |
| Veterinary | 1 | 73 | 1% |
| Lab | 1 | 93 | 1% |
| Surgery Center | 1 | 109 | 1% |
| Hospital | 8 | 1,633 | <1% |
| Dental Practice | 1 | 221 | <1% |
Industries and call points are shown from 25 postings.
The sentence to look for is an invitation, not a policy line. "Transitioning military encouraged to apply", a named military hiring program, or military service listed beside B2B sales as an accepted background is what this page counts. The equal-opportunity paragraph every US posting carries, which lists protected veterans among many groups, is deliberately not counted — it is there by law, and says nothing about whether the hiring manager wants a veteran.
Where a posting names military experience it usually names it as an alternative to field sales experience, which is the thing a first territory role otherwise asks for. That is the practical value of this list: these are the employers where a service record answers the "one to two years of outside sales" line rather than failing it.
Read the break-in guide for the six job titles that mean "no field experience needed", then search the employers above by name on the board. The career changers report carries the other four backgrounds beside this one, and anyone can filter the whole board to postings naming a military background.
The U.S. Department of Defense’s SkillBridge program lets service members spend part of their last 180 days of service training or interning with a civilian employer; ask a company’s recruiter whether it hosts SkillBridge participants, because not every employer does.
US medical sales postings live on the board that carry a job description. The board does not list non-promotional field roles such as Field Reimbursement Manager, and any it holds are left out. A posting with no description cannot name a background, so it is left out of the count altogether rather than counted as naming none.
A posting is counted under a background when its own text names that background as an accepted or invited route into the role, and does not also require medical sales experience of someone coming from it. Other credentials and experience conditions still apply. An employer that hires from a background without saying so in the posting is not counted, so absence is not evidence of anything.
An employer is listed under a background once at least the stated minimum number of its postings name it. The share beside it is of that employer's postings in the population, and is a description of how they write their advertisements rather than of who they hire.
One background from the career changers report, which covers all five. 4% of the postings counted name this background. Counted on November 6, 2026. The board is rewritten twice a day, so this is a snapshot. Cite the date with the number.
No. A posting that accepts military experience can also require sales results, education, a license or knowledge of a particular product. This page identifies military backgrounds stated in applicant qualifications, rather than treating an equal-opportunity statement as a qualification. Where a posting does not identify an accepted background, the answer remains unknown. Check the linked employer posting for its full combination of requirements.