Director, Psychiatry Account Executives
Posted Sep 29, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
You'd lead two Sr. Managers who lead 16 Psychiatry Account Executives. How do you coach through managers instead of going around them?
What they are checking: Whether they can lead a second-level team without undercutting their managers' authority with the field.
Tell me about a time you used field rides to help a manager improve their own coaching.
What they are checking: Whether they know how to develop managers as coaches, not just evaluate the reps they ride with.
Tell me about a time you brought sales, marketing and market access together around a plan they each had doubts about.
What they are checking: Whether they can lead cross-functional alignment at the director level and turn doubts into commitment.
Tell me about how you've worked on inclusion and engagement on a team you led. What did you actually change?
What they are checking: Whether they have taken concrete action on team culture rather than speaking about it in general terms.
What would you do
The PAE and FAE teams are calling on some of the same accounts. How would you make roles clear so they partner instead of compete?
What they are checking: Whether they can prevent turf conflict and set clear lanes between overlapping field teams.
One Sr. Manager's team consistently trails the other on key priorities. How would you figure out why?
What they are checking: Whether they diagnose the real cause, such as territory, hiring or coaching, before acting on a gap.
How would you evaluate whether your Account Executives are meeting behavioral expectations, not just numbers?
What they are checking: Whether they care how results are achieved, including compliance and customer trust, not just whether targets were hit.
You can live anywhere, but the team is national. How would you stay close enough to the field to lead it well?
What they are checking: Whether they have a realistic plan for field presence and visibility across a national team.
About the work
How would you build a strategy to grow access to an AbbVie psychiatry product within the VA?
What they are checking: Whether they understand federal accounts, formulary processes and the VA's decision-making structure.
What makes key account planning different in psychiatry compared with other therapeutic areas?
What they are checking: Whether they understand psychiatry's mix of community health systems, state programs and behavioral health networks.
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