Business Account Manager - PDT Private

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Job Description

Title: - Business Account Manager - PDT Private

Location: - Kolkata

OBJECTIVES/PURPOSE

• Responsible for maximizing utilization in key Therapy Areas and patient outcomes of the Takeda offering in designated territories/accounts

• Responsible for driving and achieving business objectives through insights and analytics to prepare VB-KAM (Value Based - Key Account Management) plans within the allocated budget

• Drive account stakeholder relationships; develop and monitor long-term relationships between Takeda, the account, and its key stakeholders ACCOUNTABILITIES Account Management

• Understand the accounting situation, challenges, and needs

• Formulate comprehensive, robust, and insight-driven key account plans

• Deliver on agreed objectives and tactics within the key accounts to drive Takeda performance in defined Therapy Areas

• Ensure account plans, objectives, and KPIs are transparent to the whole account team and senior leaders (captured in CRM)

• Manage the account plan execution according to agreed timelines and budget

• Conduct market surveillance and communicate in-field intelligence on customer insights, external stakeholder activities, and trends to key internal stakeholders (including commercial, medical, market access)

• Identify key external stakeholders and develop an understanding of their needs, collaborating on initiatives and co-creating mutually beneficial solutions that add value to them and the patients

• Support and collaborate with Access partner to gain product access to local formularies and/or protocols within own accounts

• In coordination with supply chain, ensure Takeda product(s) are available at the account level

• Operate in a manner that aligns with compliance and legal requirements and according to marketing and sales strategies

• Act as an ambassador of the Takeda brand, its vision, and values Stakeholder Engagement

• Develop long-term relationships between Takeda and key strategic accounts and their stakeholders

• Drive the implementation of innovative offerings with key stakeholders and help differentiate Takeda from its competitors

• Support and advise Healthcare professionals on the correct use of Takeda products and services portfolio

• Work along with the distributors to ensure timely availability of allocated products and SKU in the account , extended reach and penetration in the area allocated Cross-Functional Team Leadership

• Proactively coordinate collaboration with Marketing, Medical, and Market Access (and other internal stakeholders) to align objectives and activities with accounts and external stakeholders

• Monitor account plan progress and hold collaborators, and self, accountable as agreed

• Lead the core account team meetings and present account plans and progress at relevant local meetings to the management

• Identify and address any collaboration misalignments Operational Excellence

• Prioritize and manage accounts within assigned territory by assessing appropriate business opportunities through contacts with key decision-makers and important local stakeholders

• Systematically analyze success of plans (e.g. sales, market developments, competitors) and propose mitigating actions as needed • Use learnings to further improve planning and execution

• Make changes as needed based on new business opportunities and changes in the marketplace to achieve financial objectives

• Ensure all reports are submitted to the Head office on a regular basis

• Maintain sufficient inventory to ensure availability of products and services EDUCATION, BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS Critical Skills and Competencies

• Strategic Approach: Balances the long-term vision while driving short-term goals

• Collaboration: Establishes productive relationships and partners with others across the organization to ensure common understanding of objectives and to achieve shared goals

• Drive for Results: Holds self and others accountable for delivering on commitments that align with our short- and long-term goals, focused on helping patients through innovation in medicine

• Engage Others – Communicate with Impact: Motivates and influences others to gain support for ideas, strategies, and actions in service of providing superior pharmaceutical products to patients; provides appropriate background so messages are meaningful

• Customer & Patient Centricity: Focuses on customer satisfaction and delivers a quality service or product to the agreed standards; understands the unmet needs of patients

Experience and Education

• Bachelor’s degree in science/pharmacy ; PGDBA/MBA desirable but not necessary

• Minimum of 5 years of industry experience, with at least 3 years within specialty care environment (Pharma/Medical Device)

• Experience in managing customer relationships across the full spectrum of customer types in healthcare industry; Account management experience desirable

• Gastro/Hepatology /Critical Care

• Healthcare environment knowledge • Experience of working across stakeholders like Procurement, HCP in OPD and IPD setting , Nursing etc within the key accounts

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