at Merck in Springfield, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Job Description
The 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
NOTICE FOR INTERNAL APPLICANTS
In accordance with Managers’ Policy – Job Posting and Employee Placement, all employees subject to this policy are required to have a minimum of twelve (12) months of service in current position prior to applying for open positions.
If you have been offered a separation benefits package but have not yet reached your separation date and are offered a position within the salary and geographical parameters as set forth in the Summary Plan Description (SPD) of your separation package, then you are no longer eligible for your separation benefits package. To discuss in more detail, please contact your HRBP or Talent Acquisition Advisor.
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