[Remote] Manager, Cardiovascular Priority Accounts – Houston

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Novartis is a leading pharmaceutical company, and they are seeking a Manager for Cardiovascular Priority Accounts in Houston. This role involves driving product pull-through in targeted accounts, developing strategic business plans, and building relationships with key decision-makers in the healthcare sector.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for building institutional advocacy around formulary adoption of cardiovascular brands to drive appropriate utilization of approved products, while enabling demand by developing, coordinating, and implementing a strategic business plan for identified top Priority Accounts and Affiliated Healthcare Systems
• Build relationships with administrative decision makers, clinical, operational, and financial partners to optimize pathways, transitions of care, treatment protocols, and other workflow enablement and conduct periodic needs assessments with key customers to tailor and communicate insights and activities, engaging with partners to implement new strategies and tactics
• Identifies and enables injection locations suitable to account archetype and pathway, working with administrative stakeholders and cross-functional teams to integrate workflow and EMR
• Possesses basic knowledge of inpatient vs. outpatient billable reimbursement to ensure the strategic account plan is appropriate and understands market and customer economics and access models, including payment programs and industry trends. Maintains general awareness of Novartis price offerings and ensures account administrators are informed about available offerings
• Collaborate with local partners to create and maintain targeted institutional-specific business plans reflecting an understanding of local market forces influencing product sales
• Demonstrates expertise in disease state, marketplace, competitors, industry, and cross-functional activities to anticipate and address business opportunities and challenges
• Provides product and disease state presentations to physicians and their staff, building key business relationships within accounts while leading cross-functional teams to create, implement, and update business plans to achieve product goals
• Supports cross-functional team members in identifying key business opportunities and diagnosing critical business and implementation issues within assigned Priority Accounts and Affiliated Healthcare Systems

Skills

• Bachelor's degree required from 4-year college or university
• 5+ years' experience in pharmaceutical, biotech, healthcare, or similarly structured industries with large, geographically dispersed teams, and has 2+ years' experience in specialty buy-and-bill
• 2+ years' experience managing complex accounts, including major academic centers and hospitals, with extensive account management expertise
• Must possess an extensive understanding of the cardiovascular community and demonstrate a strong track record of expertise in therapeutic area and product knowledge
• Extensive business experience, with proven capability to collaborate and work across different functions in a matrix environment to develop strategic account plans that align with customer and organization objectives
• Exhibited extensive customer and cross-functional expertise, combined with an understanding of the healthcare ecosystem, strong business acumen, and proficiency in technology and digital engagement
• Candidate must reside within territory, or within a reasonable daily commuting distance of 50 miles from the territory border
• Ability to travel 60-80% over a broad geography is required, with the ability to drive and/or fly within the territory
• Must have a valid driver's license
• Experience calling on assigned cardiovascular accounts
• Two different types of cross-functional roles/experience (Marketing, Medical, Market Access and Reimbursement and/or Sales Leadership)

Benefits

• Performance-based cash incentive
• Eligibility to be considered for annual equity awards
• Comprehensive benefits package that includes health, life and disability benefits
• A 401(k) with company contribution and match
• A variety of other benefits
• A generous time off package including vacation, personal days, holidays and other leaves

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