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Senior Key Account Manager

Key Facts

Remote From: 
Full time
Senior (5-10 years)
English

Other Skills

  • Forecasting
  • Training And Development
  • Digital Literacy
  • Leadership
  • Active Listening
  • Teamwork
  • Decisiveness
  • Mentorship
  • Verbal Communication Skills

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Bachelor’s degree in biotech/pharmaceuticals or a related field (or equivalent combination of education and experience).
  • Relevant field experience in the biotech/pharmaceuticals industry (or equivalent).
  • Product launch experience with strong verbal and written communication skills.
  • Ability to travel up to 60% and operate in a field-based role.

Requirements:

  • Develop and execute account-level business plans at CF centers, including promotional activities, forecasting, and budget tracking to ensure access and maximize long-term product value.
  • Promote safe and effective use of Vertex drugs by providing disease-state and on-label information to healthcare professionals, and maintain in-depth knowledge of CF environment, treatment and referral patterns.
  • Build and manage relationships with key stakeholders in the assigned geography, ensuring appropriate resource allocation and addressing gaps in the care system to improve patient access and outcomes.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally, coordinate internal and external resources to enhance patient care, participate in meetings/projects, and ensure compliance with regulatory guidelines; travel up to 60%.

Job description

Job Description

General Summary:

The Senior Key Account Manager (KAM) role will be a part of the launch effort of innovative breakthrough treatments for Cystic Fibrosis. The Senior KAM will support ensuring that all barriers to usage of these new orphan products are addressed and that all patients who could benefit from the products have access. This goal will be achieved by the development and execution of specific account level business plans at all CF centers; communicating exceptional level of disease and product knowledge to healthcare professional customers and ensuring that the full long term value of the product is fully understood by all relevant stakeholders.

This is a field based role covering central/western England and Wales

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Promotes safe and effective use of Vertex drugs, in accordance with the product label to ensure that the benefits and long term value of the product is fully understood
  • Provides relevant disease state and on-label product information
  • Interacts with wide variety of key stakeholders in assigned geography
  • Accountable for performance at the territory level, and contributes to regional and national team performance
  • Ensures appropriate resource allocation to meet customer needs, and address gaps in the care system
  • Stays current on the Cystic Fibrosis environment; maintain exceptional in-depth knowledge of disease, local drivers, treatment and referral patterns, key account profiles, influence patterns, reimbursement, and barriers to optimal care
  • Responsible for developing and executing account level business plan, including promotional activities for customers; forecasting and tracking promotional budget
  • Works collaboratively across functional areas to achieve common goals
  • Acts as a role model across all functions
  • Facilitates the coordination of internal and external resources to enhance patient care
  • Participates in meetings, and take on projects, as requested by management.
  • Provides assistance in recruiting and training as needed.
  • Exercises sound judgment and adheres to relevant regulatory and compliance guidelines and company policies

Knowledge and Skills:

  • Demonstrates team-based skills, and is able to network and lead across functions
  • Embraces and adopts new technologies and techniques
  • Highly competent in a multitude of IT capabilities to support the business needs
  • Demonstrate active listening skills as a springboard for creating relevant value to customers and key Cystic Fibrosis stakeholders
  • Product launch experience
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Embraces continuous learning/seeks knowledge
  • Demonstrates insights for improving Cystic Fibrosis patient care delivery, and strong customer orientation and insight
  • Excellent contextual selling skills with proven record of performance (consistently in the top 10% of sales force)
  • Strong understanding of healthcare regulatory and enforcement environments'
  • Ability to travel up to 60%

Education and Experience:

  • Bachelor’s degree
  • Typically requires relevant field experience in biotech/pharmaceuticals industry, or the equivalent combination of education and experience

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Company Information

Vertex is a global biotechnology company that invests in scientific innovation.

Vertex is committed to equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a person's race, color, sex, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital status, or any characteristic protected under applicable law. Vertex is an E-Verify Employer in the United States. Vertex will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities, in accordance with applicable law.

Any applicant requiring an accommodation in connection with the hiring process and/or to perform the essential functions of the position for which the applicant has applied should make a request to the recruiter or hiring manager, or contact Talent Acquisition at ApplicationAssistance@vrtx.com.

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