Sr. Account Manager, ACH (Houston) at BioMarin Italia in remote, United States

Job description

• This position requires performance driven individuals with strategic problem- solving skills, high business acumen that can work collaboratively with multiple stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have sales experience in pediatric endocrinology clinics and/or comparable experience in rare disease. Experience launching a first in class therapy and building new therapeutic markets desired.
• The Account Manager must maintain a high level of knowledge within the disease states, product labeling. The primary call target is pediatric endocrinology, pediatric orthopedics, and genetics located both in Institutions and office-based setting. Targeted pediatricians with ACH patients will also be key call points in filling the funnel.
• Activities include disease state and product education to referring HCPs, office readiness for patient starting therapy as well as coordination of multiple departments/stakeholders and BioMarin's field based clinical support team. Skills required include account management, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving. Individuals must be flexible, and adaptable with sensitivity to the potential constraints of a commercial start-up. Must be goal oriented and accountable for their individual performance, while acting in a professional and compliant manner. Cold calling on all targeted specialties is a requirement.

Responsibilities

• Achieving area sales objectives, market penetration, new patient starts, and revenue targets on a quarterly & annual basis
• Driving demand through clinical selling and education to referring and treating health care providers focusing on skeletal conditions. This includes cold calling on key accounts as needed for access.
• Implementing an effective business plan to guide strategy, tactics and track progress
• Developing and maintaining excellent working relationships with all key stakeholders including Pediatric Endocrinology, Pediatric Orthopedics, Genetics, and key referring physicians that could include Pediatrics
• Actively participating in disease awareness efforts and burden/natural history of disease through professional society meetings (local, state, regional), as assigned.
• Working with other members of the Skeletal Dysplasia brand team, and facilitating appropriate collaboration with other functions, such as MSLs, Market Access team, Compliance, and other internal stakeholders, as needed
• Becoming an expert in the clinical data and verbalizing its significance to all stakeholders
• Proactively providing business insights to internal partners as to the clinical practices of assigned accounts
• Acting in compliance within a highly regulated industry and consistent with training, policies, guidelines, and their own best judgment while adhering to all company policies assigned to the Account Manager position
• Ability to work with ambiguity and remain agile as organization needs evolve

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required
• At least 5 years of sales experience in biotech/rare disease involving specialty products that are technically challenging and first in class
• Experience with office-based selling in complex model of referral health care providers to prescriber health care providers in newly created market
• Experience working in a field team model with field based clinical support and reimbursement hub model
• Pediatric Endocrinology and/or Pediatric Orthopedics strongly preferred
• Experience in new product launches and preferably with first in class product
• Experience in a role that works directly with patients/families.
• Experience and committed to long sales cycle to ensure medical home is created

Skills

Required

• Strategic problem-solving skills
• High business acumen
• Collaborative with multiple stakeholders
• Account management
• Organizational skills
• Analytical skills
• Problem-solving
• Flexible and adaptable
• Goal oriented
• Professional and compliant manner
• Cold calling
• Advanced virtual skillset

Preferred

• Sales experience in biotech/rare disease
• Experience with office-based selling
• Experience in new product launches
• Experience with long sales cycles