Key Account Manager Cardiovascular disease, AstraZeneca

Job description
Key Account Manager – Cardiovascular disease – Nordic-Baltic Marketing Company (NOBA)

Are you an experienced professional with a deep interest in heart failure and looking for new challenges? Apply today and make a difference for patients’ lives!

The Nordic Marketing Company (Nordic) employs around 400 people across 5 countries and has offices located in Södertälje, Copenhagen, Helsinki and Oslo. By 2025 AstraZeneca Nordic aims to become a recognized leader in its core therapy areas and improve the lives of millions of people. 
This will be achieved by driving innovative science, delivering key launches, building close collaboration and partnerships with stakeholders in health care systems, and developing high-performing teams. 

We are looking for you to come and join our commercial Cardiovascular team as Key Account Manager, Cardiovascular Diseases (CV). This is a temporary employment with planned end date mid 2022. However, there is possibility for extension. Knowledge and experience within the therapeutic area, especially heart failure, will be a success factor in this role. The role is field-based and a covering hospitals nationwide in Sweden.  

Randstad Life Sciences is specialized in competences within Life Science. As a consultant with us, you get a competitive salary, benefits and collective agreements. Your consultant manager is always there for you and ensures that you get varying and developing assignments at different companies, within different industries. At Randstad Life Sciences, your personal development is in focus, and you are offered a large network and many social activities.

Responsibilities
The Role

As a Key Account Manager, you will become part of AstraZeneca’s strong CVRM franchise, one of our key growth platforms. Our responsibility includes key cardiovascular brands where we have a strong heritage and new treatment indications to be launched in the near future. The role will focus on heart failure and the need for treatment of hyperkalemia.

You will drive sales activities towards various partners e.g. health care professional groups, specialist organizations, and local market access individuals. You engage with nationwide accounts to secure and drive business in collaboration with both local and national cross-functional teams.

What you will do:
• Drive the business related to treatment of hyperkalemia in patients with heart failure in Sweden.  
• Have a high customer presence and perform customer face to face and/or digital activities.
• Develop deep understanding of needs and perceptions of key specialists, e.g. prescribers, budget holders, clinic management, etc. Then be able to provide suggestion for solution.  
• Build partnerships and secure accounts by driving activities with the right customers within the right accounts.
• Pro-actively identifying business opportunities, communicating value propositions aligned to stakeholder needs and objectives, and recommending solutions.

Qualifications
In order to success, you have:

It is a request to have proven experience from pharmaceutical industry with specialty care experience of working with cardiologists, preferably also within heart failure.
• Previous experience within hyperkalemia and/or heart failure is an advantage.
• Proficiency in meeting customer digitally via different channels. 
• Academic degree or equivalent, commercial or healthcare background
• Be able to travel nationwide in Sweden. Driver’s license is required.
• Capability to understand, assimilate and communicate scientific information and Health Economic Outcomes data.
• Commercial innovation - entrepreneurial approach towards customer/partner focused activities to achieve long-term business goals.
• Leadership - ability to coordinate, align and engage cross-functional team to drive activities and address needs of individual accounts.
You must have excellent interpersonal skills and proficient in both written and spoken English and Swedish. Previous experience and integrity in customer interactions will be an asset as well as your ability to focus on customer satisfaction. You are homebased but preferably based in Skåne, Gothenburg area or Mälardalen.

Why AstraZeneca?
At AstraZeneca, we turn ideas into life changing medicines and strive to continuously meet the unmet needs of patients worldwide. When we see an opportunity for change, we seize it and make it happen, because any opportunity no matter how small, can be the start of something big.
If you are swift to action, confident to lead, willing to collaborate, and curious about what science can do, then you’re our kind of person. Join us on our journey of building a new kind of organisation to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be.

Application
Are you ready to bring new ideas and fresh thinking to the table? Brilliant! We have one seat available and we hope it´s yours.

Deadline 2021-11-04,  selection and interviews will be ongoing. The position may be filled before the last day of application, therefore, apply as soon as possible.
 
Additional information

Our Biopharmaceutical Business Unit: https://careers.astrazeneca.com/biopharmaceuticals-business-unit

AZ YouTube channel: “A life-changing day.” with one of AZ´s Key Account Managers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPNTCYyDXuI&list=PLgfkdJlwmkT6h7sZKBXqs7Xj4PobD4RmR&index=4

About the company
Randstad Life Sciences specializes in the field of science and is part of Randstad, the world leader in recruitment and consulting with operations in 38 countries. With this global network, in combination with our strong local foundation, we can offer a wide range of varied and developing assignments and jobs for you who are a specialist in life science. Our mission is to help you reach your true potential with your career in focus!