H1

Strategic Account Manager- Pharma (Located in New Jersey)

H1$115K — $135K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in B2B enterprise SaaS account management or related experience in Pharma teams.
  • Familiarity with Medical Affairs workflows and KOL engagement.
  • Proven success managing complex renewal cycles and driving revenue growth.
  • Strong relationship-building skills with mid-level and senior stakeholders.
  • Ability to conduct independent discovery conversations and product demonstrations.
  • Cross-functional collaboration experience with various internal teams.
  • Willingness to travel approximately 20% to client sites.

Responsibilities

  • Lead discussions and product demos to identify expansion opportunities.
  • Build consultative relationships with stakeholders throughout the customer lifecycle.
  • Drive account retention and expansion through strategic planning.
  • Support business reviews with account health insights and product usage data.
  • Monitor account risks and develop strategies to mitigate churn.
  • Become a product specialist for H1's Medical suite to advise internal teams and clients.
  • Translate client feedback to influence product development and roadmap.
  • Maintain CRM and provide accurate revenue forecasts.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance options and generous PTO.
  • Company-wide wellness holidays.
  • Retirement savings plans available.
  • Stipends for health and charitable donations.
  • Engagement in impactful Business Resource Groups.
  • Flexible hours and remote work opportunities.
  • Collaboration with industry-leading biotech and life sciences organizations.
Full Job Description
WHAT YOU'LL DO AT H1

As a Strategic Account Manager - Medical Lead, you will be a member of the H1 Account Team for one of H1's top 20 pharmaceutical accounts. You will develop deep, trusted relationships with Medical and Commercial Team stakeholders and serve as the primary point of contact and product expert for H1's Medical suite. Deeply embedded in your client's organization, you will understand their priorities and challenges, position new solutions that address their evolving needs, and help them unlock the full value of H1's data solutions and AI-powered Medical and Commercial solutions. This is a quota-carrying role responsible for driving account retention, renewal readiness, and expansion across ARR and Services opportunities.

You will:
- Lead discovery conversations, product demonstrations, and other sales activities to qualify expansion opportunities and communicate the value of H1's Medical product suite.
- Build trusted, consultative relationships with mid-level stakeholders across Medical Affairs, MSLs, Medical Information, Medical Strategy and Commercial functions, serving as a knowledgeable and reliable point of contact throughout the customer lifecycle.
- Execute multi-stakeholder account strategies that drive retention, renewal readiness, and expansion - identifying and progressing ARR and Services upsell opportunities across business units, therapeutic areas, and geographies.
- Support Executive Business Reviews by contributing account health insights, product utilization data, and strategic expansion narratives that demonstrate H1's value and reinforce long-term partnership.
- Proactively monitor accounts for risk signals - including low adoption, stakeholder changes, or competitive activity - and develop and execute mitigation plans to protect against churn.
- Become a deep product specialist in H1's Medical suite, staying current on new features, use cases, and the evolving landscape of Medical Affairs data needs to credibly advise customers and internal teams.
- Translate customer feedback and unmet needs to shape H1's roadmap for Medical-focused solutions.
- Maintain rigorous CRM hygiene and accurate pipeline and revenue forecasting for your accounts, providing timely deal progression updates to leadership.
- Partner with other members of the Account Team (Account Director, Customer Success Managers, and Implementation Managers) to ensure seamless onboarding, ongoing engagement and support for escalations.

ABOUT YOU

You are a strategic, client-focused sales professional who thrives at the intersection of data, life sciences, and customer relationships. You bring credibility and confidence when engaging stakeholders across Medical Affairs and Commercial functions. You understand the challenges of these teams, from KOL engagement and MSL field deployment to publication planning and congress strategy. You are skilled at building relationships across multiple layers of an organization, uncovering expansion opportunities, and managing complex accounts with rigor and care.

REQUIREMENTS

- 5+ years of experience in B2B enterprise SaaS account management or sales or hands-on experience within Medical and/or Commercial Teams within a top Pharma company.
- Familiarity with Medical Affairs workflows, including KOL identification and engagement, congress and publication intelligence, MSL territory management, and clinical landscape mapping.
- Experience managing renewal cycles and driving expansion ARR and Services revenue within complex, multi-stakeholder enterprise accounts, preferred.
- Strong relationship-building skills, with demonstrated ability to develop trusted partnerships at the mid-level stakeholder layer and above.
- Comfortable conducting discovery conversations, product demos, and value-based selling conversations independently.
- Ability to work cross-functionally with Customer Success, Product, Implementation, and Legal teams to manage account health and complex situations.
- Willingness and ability to travel to customer sites approximately 20% of the time.

COMPENSATION

This role pays $115,000 to $135,000 base salary per year, based on experience, plus variable commission, based on performance, in addition to equity.

Anticipated role close date: 9/10/2026

H1 OFFERS

- Full suite of health insurance options, in addition to generous paid time off
- Pre-planned company-wide wellness holidays
- Retirement options
- Health & charitable donation stipends
- Impactful Business Resource Groups
- Flexible work hours & the opportunity to work from anywhere
- The opportunity to work with leading biotech and life sciences companies in an innovative industry with a mission to improve healthcare around the globe

About H1

H1 Inc. is an American healthcare data technology company headquartered in New York City that provides services globally. The company's database is used by healthcare and pharmaceutical companies and related organizations to identify healthcare professionals to partner with on research in order to accelerate development of drugs and other treatments. The company has over 400 employees worldwide and about 100 clients including pharmaceutical companies Novartis and AstraZeneca as of November 2021.
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