Key Account Manager Infectious Diseases

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Key Account Manager Infectious Diseases Region West, AstraZeneca AG Switzerland

This role will be 100% Field-based(French speaking part of Switzerland)

Competitive salary & excellent company benefits

Who are we looking for?
Do you have expertise in, and passion for innovative combination therapies and biologics, ideally, in infectious diseases? Do you understand Key Account Management as putting your customer’s and their patients’ need in the centre of your attention and like to coordinate activities across different functions? Would you like to apply your expertise and passion to impact the Infectious Diseases business unit in a company that follows the science and turns ideas into life changing medicines? Then AstraZeneca might be the one for you! We are looking for a skilled Key Account Manager proficient and experienced in being a strategic and scientific partner and an advisor in the infectious diseases field.

About AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialisation of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious diseases. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies. It’s our patients that come first, every decision we make and action we take is centred around how we can better serve them. It’s why we are shaping patient care for the future, working along the whole experience to give hope to billions of lives across the world.

Business Area Infectious Diseases

AstraZeneca’s near-term focus is supporting the global response to end the ongoing pandemic and scientific and medical experts believe COVID-19 will continue to circulate, even after the pandemic ends. Therefore, AstraZeneca is building the capabilities to continue developing, manufacturing, and delivering innovative options to control COVID-19. These builds include a robust global commercial

capability to ensure broad access and use of AstraZeneca’s prevention and treatment options across a variety of infectious diseases.

What you’ll do

In this role you will be responsible for all commercial, customer related activities in Infectious Diseases in your region, including promotional brand activities, product related physician and healthcare professional education. You will coordinate the activities with and for the key customers of the region within and across a cross-functional team, integrating input from Marketing, Medical and Market Access. We are looking for candidates who live customer service and patient orientation and are able to orchestrate their activities across multiple channels based on customer preference and business needs. You are a doer and leverage deep customer and patient insights to ensure our patient centric approach. You can integrate business insights and numbers from excel sheets together with your intuition and customer knowledge into winning strategies and tactics.

Other responsibilities include:

• Acquiring and leveraging a thorough understanding of key customer needs and requirements
• Understand collaborative HCP networks and become a trusted partner and advisor
• Expand existing and develop new relationships with key customers by continuously offering solutions that meet their needs and objectives
• Utilize marketing and medical assets and campaigns for your customer engagement plans in digital and F2F communication
• Capture and analyse local and regional needs and collaborate with other field functions and in-office colleagues to develop and offer suitable solutions and information materials
• Develops ideas in co-operation with customers and execute customer facing projects that add-value to patient care and improve treatment pathways

Essential for the role

• Demonstrated pharma sales and/or marketing experience
• Prior therapy area experience desired (infectious diseases and/or vaccines)
• Good strategic and analytical skills
• Strong project management skills
• Experience with different commercial and digital channels
• Excellent collaboration and teamwork capabilities
• Excellent communication skills
• Good knowledge in market ethical rules
• Excellent knowledge in French, English and German skills are a plus.
• Bachelors’ Degree or equivalent, e.g. in Business Administration
• You see omnichannel as a chance, not a buzzword.

Reporting to:

Franchise Lead Infectious Diseases

Why AstraZeneca?

At AstraZeneca we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work. Where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. There’s no better place to make a difference to medicine, patients and society. An inclusive culture that champions diversity and collaboration, and always committed to lifelong learning, growth and development. We’re on an exciting journey to pioneer the future of healthcare.

So, what’s next?

Are you already imagining yourself joining our team? Good, because we can’t wait to hear from you.

Please apply by submitting your CV no later than 10.03.2021

AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.