Key Account Manager Gastroentology

ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Account Management

• Understand the account situation, challenges, and needs
• Formulate comprehensive, robust and insight-driven key account plans
• Deliver on agreed objectives and tactics within the key accounts in order to drive
  Takeda performance
• Ensure account plans, objectives, and KPIs are transparent to the whole account team and senior leaders (captured in SMILE CRM)
• Manage the account plan execution according to agreed timelines and budget

• Conduct market surveillance and communicate in-field intelligence on customer insights, external stakeholder activities and trends to key internal stakeholders
  (including commercial, medical, market access, CEE)

• Support and collaborate with In-Field Market Access territory partner to gain product access to local formularies and/or protocols within own accounts.
• In coordination with supply chain, ensure Takeda product(s) is/are available at account level 
• Operate in a manner that is always in line with compliance and legal requirements and
  according to the marketing and sales strategies.
• Act as an ambassador of the Takeda brand, its vision and values

Stakeholder Engagement

• Develop long-term relationships between Takeda and key strategic accounts and
  their stakeholders
• Identify key external stakeholders and develop deep understanding of their needs, collaborating on initiatives and co-creating mutually beneficial solutions that will add value to them and the patients
• Drive the implementation of the innovative offerings with key stakeholders and help differentiate Takeda from its competitors
• Support and advise Healthcare professionals on the correct use of Takeda product and services portfolio.

Cross-Functional Team Leadership

• Proactively coordinate collaboration with medical and market access (and other internal stakeholders)  to ensure alignment in objectives and activities with accounts and external stakeholders.
• Monitor the account plan progress and hold collaborators, and self, accountable as agreed
• Lead the core account team meetings and present account plans and progress at relevant
  local meetings to the management
• Identify and address any collaboration misalignments

Operational Excellence

• Prioritize and manage accounts within assigned territory by assessing appropriate business opportunities through contacts with key decision-makers and important local stakeholders
• Systematically analyze success of plans (e.g. sales, market developments, competitors) and propose mitigating actions as needed.
  Use learnings to further improve planning and execution
• Make changes as needed based on new business opportunities and changes in the marketplace to achieve financial objectives

Whom we are looking for:

Critical Skills and Competencies

• You bring a strategic Approach: balancing between the long-term vision while driving the short-term goals
• You have a collaborative spirit, establishing productive relationships and partners with others across the organization to ensure common understanding of objectives and achieve shared goals
• You have a strong drive for results: holding yourself and others accountable for delivering on commitments that align with our short- and long-term goals, never forgetting the end result is to help patients through innovation in medicine
• You engage Others and communicate with Impact: motivating and influencing others to gain support for ideas, strategies, and actions in service to providing superior pharmaceutical products to patients; provides appropriate background so that messages are meaningful with audiences
• You are Customer & Patient centric and focus on customer satisfaction and delivers a quality service or product to the agreed standards; understands the unmet needs of the patients

Experience and Education

• Bachelor Degree
• Minimum of 3 years of industry experience, with at least 1 year within a hospital and/or
  Speciality care environment
• Experience in managing customer relationships across the full spectrum of customer types in healthcare industry.
• Account management experience desirable.
• Therapy and Product area knowledge
• Healthcare environment knowledge

Empowering our people to shine

At Takeda, we earn the trust of society and our customers through our values of Takeda-ism: Integrity, Fairness, Honesty, Perseverance. We incorporate these values in everything we do. They represent who we are and how we act. They help us make decisions that we can be proud of today and in the future. We enable our employees to develop their full potential. As a global top employer, we offer exciting career paths, promote innovation, and strive for top performance in everything we do. Takeda fosters an inclusive, collaborative, and international work environment where our teams are united by their relentless commitment to our goal of improving people's health and creating a better future for the world. Learn more at takedajobs.com.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

At our heart are committed colleagues. We offer interested people numerous opportunities and strongly believe in, and promote, diversity, equity, and inclusion. As a company we offer roles based on merit, welcoming candidates of any gender, age, religious belief, race or ethnic origin or disability.

If you are interested in this opportunity, we look forward to receiving your application via our online tool!