Institutional Account Leader, Account Executive - Ohio South

Job DescriptionThe Institutional Account Leader (IAL) for South Ohio will manage the business relationship between our company and assigned customer accounts with the following goals:

Establishing profitable product access within our company's product strategy

Optimizing Net Sales and Contract Performance across our company's product portfolio

Ensuring proper oversight and compliance with all our company's policies and exercising appropriate financial stewardship

This is field-based account management position that is responsible for the Ohio South territory.

Major workload centers in the territory include Columbus, Cincinnati, and Dayton, Ohio.

Candidates must live within or near the territory to visit with customers in-person.

Travel (%) depends on where the selected candidate resides in relation to the territory, as well as on the needs of the business and customer.

Primary Responsibilities include and may not be limited to:

Addressing customer educational needs, interacting with multiple stakeholders within the assigned account to enhance our company's business relationship with its customers. The South Ohio IAL is responsible for the following designated customers as assigned by the Mid Atlantic HCS Regional Director:

Integrated Delivery Networks (IDNs, including hospital outpatient and home-infusion if IDN owned)

Federal accounts (including Veterans’ Affairs and Military Treatment Facilities)

Engaging senior Institutional Leadership and building trust and credibility with their assigned customers through strong interpersonal relationships, in depth knowledge of the customer's organization, objectives, and business and environmental issues impacting the customer, and in-depth knowledge of the same for our company. The IAL engages senior Institutional Leadership in the following roles using approved messages and resources:

Pharmacy Service Line, and will serve as lead for the assigned customers across all our company's account teams with overlapping contacts with the customer

Information Technology Departments and will serve as lead for assigned customers across all our company's account teams with overlapping contacts with the customer

Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) & VISN Pharmacy Executive within the Veterans’’ Affairs system

C-Suite in top assigned accounts

Develops strategic and tactical account plans for assigned accounts. The responsibilities could include the following:

Economic:

Persuasively presenting Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) brand pricing programs to pharmacy leadership

Negotiate direct contracts, where appropriate

Communicating approved financial, health care economic and budget impact models

Operational:

Communicating product access with overlay Field Based Employees (FBE) for assigned IDN accounts

Confirming customer contracts are properly loaded to provide the appropriate contract pricing to the eligible sites of care

Communicating approved information to customer Information Technology departments

Leads account planning for assigned IDN Accounts with other IAM colleagues and FBE’s

Manages ongoing communications to extended team

Account coordination and access facilitation to overlapping contacts with FBE’s

Promote assigned our company's products along entire continuum of care (transition of care) using approved messages and resources

Conducts appropriate business review of account performance to optimize net sales for our company.

Clinical:

Communicate to customers the clinical value proposition for assigned products using approved messages and resources

Appropriately use approved our company's resources to meet customer educational needs

Qualifications:Minimum Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree with 3+ years of recent Sales or Account Management Experience

Advanced degree candidates must have 3+ years of relevant external health care experience

Demonstrated leadership skills

Strong business and financial acumen of the external healthcare environment

Strong interpersonal and communication skills.

Data Analytics capability

Valid driver's license

Ability to travel the amount of time to fulfill the requirements of the position

Preferred Qualifications:

Advanced degree (MBA, Pharm D, MSN)

Account Management experience with South Ohio IDNs and institutional customers

Negotiation skills

Experience working in cross-functional teams

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