Key Account Manager

Melinta Therapeutics

$90K — $130K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree required
  • 7+ years in pharmaceutical sales or marketing
  • 3+ years in a hospital account selling role
  • Proven hospital sales track record
  • Valid driver's license with a clean record
  • Experience in Buy/Bill and Home Infusion preferred
  • Preferred experience in Acute Care, Infectious Disease, or Hemodialysis

Responsibilities

  • Increase product access and navigate the formulary approval process
  • Secure product placement in EMR systems and protocols
  • Develop relationships with local infusion sites and LTACHs
  • Create territory plans to enhance product utilization
  • Align solutions with customer needs and account performance
  • Build relationships with key opinion leaders and hospital staff
  • Coordinate and implement educational forums in hospitals
  • Collaborate with various departments on formulary changes and initiatives

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with innovative medical products
  • Exposure to diverse customer relationships and settings
  • Professional development and continuous learning
  • Dynamic work environment with shifting priorities
  • Field-based role with flexibility in travel
  • Supportive team-oriented work culture
Full Job Description
POSITION:

The Key Account Manager (KAM) position is a hospital-based or integrated sites of care-based position focused on launching and selling innovative products in the assigned institutional accounts, including integrated delivery networks (IDNs) and alternate sites of care for infusion. The role includes educating clinicians on the clinical benefits of CorMedix Therapeutics products to facilitate and gain improved institutional formulary access while expanding appropriate product utilization, through protocol adoption, to exceed business and customer objectives with assigned hospitals and IDNs. The KAM also has accountability for pulling through contracts and facilitating account and clinician access opportunities to ensure achievement of CorMedix Therapeutic's business goals. KAMs are required to follow the hospitalized patient journey and call Long Term Acute Care hospitals and home infusion companies if determined necessary in their territories. Some of the products will require the KAM to call on infusion centers outside the hospital, open sites of care outside of a hospital for infusion as well as call on customers that refer into those infusion centers. This role will manage key accounts across the Hoboken, NJ territory.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
  • Increase product access and sales in the geographical area by navigating the institutional formulary approval process, as well as educating customers on appropriate use of CorMedix Therapeutic products.
  • Secure placement of CorMedix Therapeutic's products on appropriate account protocols and ensure products are in the EMR systems.
  • Develop relationships with local infusion sites, LTACH's and home infusion companies.
  • Develop territory and account-level plans to grow product utilization, formulary access, and expand the customer base.
  • Understand multiple interdependencies within an account, consider customer treatment goals and needs, and maximize account performance by aligning appropriate solutions, messaging, and stakeholders.
  • Establish and maintain professional relationships with customer opinion leaders and hospitals, including physicians, medical staff and pharmacies.
  • Plan, coordinate, and implement hospital-oriented education forums in accordance with company policies and business plans.
  • Partner with hospital treatment committees to include CorMedix Therapeutics products on appropriate disease state protocols.
  • Facilitate continuity of care for discharging patients via CorMedix Therapeutics product inclusion on discharge protocols/orders and alignment of approved CorMedix Therapeutics reimbursement resources.
  • Collaborate and communicate with Sales, Medical Affairs, National Accounts, Marketing, and Sales Administration on all needs, opportunities, Key Opinion Leader touch points, formulary changes and pull-through initiatives.


SKILLS & REQUIREMENTS:
  • Proven track record of sales within a hospital environment of the assigned territory/accounts.
  • Recent acute care hospital or integrated sites of care sales experience in the assigned territory/accounts.
  • Ability to create alternate sites of care in assigned territory.
  • Understanding of how to sell in a buy and bill market.
  • Success planning and executing a new product or solution launch into a hospital/account setting.
  • Highly motivated, self-starter and results driven individual.
  • Must be able to work well independently and as a team member; under pressure, shifting priorities, and a changing landscape.
  • Strong project management skills to ensure timelines are met, as well as the ability to prioritize and multitask.
  • A passion for continuous professional development and learning.
  • Ability to work in a matrix environment and to value the importance of teamwork.
  • Ability to establish and build relationships and rapport with a diverse customer base.
  • Strong ability to learn and use technical product knowledge.
  • Willingness and ability to provide proof of childhood immunizations, a negative TB test and other requirements, as set by each hospital's credentialing protocol for access.


QUALIFICATIONS:
  • A Bachelor's degree is required.
  • Minimum of 7 years of related pharmaceutical sales, marketing and/or training experience.
  • Minimum of 3 years in an account selling role (selling in a hospital/account ecosystem, for all levels of the account.)
  • Valid driver's license and clean driving record.
  • The ability to travel as needed to sustain key relationships within the assigned territory and to attend both conferences and sales meetings.
  • Preferred Buy/Bill and Home Infusion experience.
  • Preferred hospital experience in Acute Care, Infectious Disease, and/or Hemodialysis.


EXEMPT/NON EXEMPT : EXEMPT

% TRAVEL : Field-based position with frequent day-to-day travel expected

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