Job Description Summary
Sandoz is going through an exciting and transformative period as a global leader and pioneering provider of sustainable Biosimilar and Generic medicines.
Now as an independently listed company, Sandoz aims to increase its strategic focus, operate with greater agility, set clearer business objectives, enhance shareholder returns, and strengthen its culture for us, the Sandoz associates. This is an exciting time in our history, and by creating a new and ambitious path, it will provide a unique opportunity for us all, both professionally and personally. Join us as a Founder of our ‘new’ Sandoz!
The purpose of the role is to influence at all levels of the local health economy ensuring that Sandoz is viewed as a partner, collaborating internally and externally to optimize patients access to Sandoz products.
Job Description
Your Key Responsibilities:
Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:
- Achieve sales targets for Sandoz-promoted brands through an effective key account management approach
- Develop and actively review account plans enabling optimal use of internal and external resources to drive sales uplift.
- Create a positive environment on the territory for all promoted Sandoz products.
- To have a comprehensive understanding of the full local health economy delivering patients access to Sandoz brands
- Maintain a high level of territory knowledge, including proactively gaining competitor intelligence and insights and feeding any important information back to the wider brand team to maximize opportunities for Sandoz products.
- Effective cross-functional working across, marketing, medical, market access and the wider support functions.
- To understand and remain updated on the NHS environment both at a National level and throughout the local health economy, including funding streams
What you’ll bring to the role:
Essential Requirements:
- Educated to degree level in a business or science subject
- Excellent IT skills
- Ideally with over 3 years’ branded (ethical) pharmaceutical sales experience in selling to secondary care specialists.
- Experience with strategic NHS including NHS England
- Demonstrated sales success within the Pharmaceutical Industry
- Ideally good networks and relationships within disease area and ICB’s, would be an advantage
- Highly organised and efficient, whilst maintaining flexibility
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
You’ll receive:
Competitive salary, Annual bonus, Pension scheme, Share scheme, Health insurance, 24 days annual leave, Flexible working arrangements, Employee recognition scheme, learning and development opportunities.
Why Sandoz?
Generic and Biosimilar medicines are the backbone of the global medicines industry. Sandoz, a leader in this sector, touched the lives of almost 500 million patients last year and while we are proud of this achievement, we have an ambition to do more!
With investments in new development capabilities, state-of-the-art production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help more patients gain access to low-cost, high-quality medicines, sustainably.
Our momentum and entrepreneurial spirit is powered by an open, collaborative culture driven by our talented and ambitious colleagues, who, in return for applying their skills experience an agile and collegiate environment with impactful, flexible-hybrid careers, where diversity is welcomed and where personal growth is encouraged!
The future is ours to shape!
Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:
We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.
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Skills Desired
Accountability, Account Management, Commercial Excellence, Competitive Intelligence, Compliance, Crm (Customer Relationship Management), Customer Engagement, Ethics, Healthcare Sector, Market Development, Problem Solving Skills, Revenue Growth, Selling Skills, Team Collaboration, Value Propositions
What We Do
Novartis is an innovative medicines company. Every day, working to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives so that patients, healthcare professionals and societies are empowered in the face of serious disease. Our medicines reach more than 250 million people worldwide.
