Key Account Manager, Germany, South-West

Key Account Manager, Germany, South-West

Mannheim, Germany

Location(s): Mannheim, Germany

Level of position: Senior Manager

Position type: field-based

Reporting Line: This position reports to the Sales Director, Germany

How will your role help us transform hope into reality?

The position will be part of a broader KAM team in Germany, responsible for maintaining and establishing new connections with HCPs (hematologists and dermatologists) in the South-West region of Germany.

What will you do?

• Embrace and understand indications and scope account and HCPs for indicated territory.
• Implement programs to support the journey of patients and ultimately work with the local health care system to improve the treatment of this disease and/or the patient journey.
• Drive account stakeholder relationships; develop and monitor long-term relationships between Blueprint Medicines, the account and its key stakeholders.
• Design strategy for and be accountable for key accounts, develop concrete plans for those.
• Responsible for driving and achieving the business objectives of new product launches and in-market assets.
• Responsible for leading and developing local strategic customer relationships and bring product to launch within compliance and legal requirements.
• Develop and execute projects initiated by relevant team members to support their customers, resulting in better and more efficient treatment outcomes helping Blueprint Medicines to be a key partner in the product area by stakeholders.
• Share insights and best practices within German team and within INT region.
• Perform other responsibilities as assigned.

What minimum qualifications do we require?

• Bachelor / Master’s degree in marketing or life science (preferably).
• Minimum of 5 years of key account management experience in pharmaceutical industry.

What additional qualifications will make you a stronger candidate?

• Account Management
  • Understand the account situation, potential, challenges and needs.
  • Formulate comprehensive, robust and insight-driven key account plans.
  • Deliver on agreed objectives and tactics within the key accounts in order to drive BPM performance.
  • Ensure account plans, objectives and KPIs are transparent to the team and senior leader.
  • 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.
  • Support and collaborate with In-Field Market Access territory partner to gain product access to local formularies and/or protocols within own accounts.
  • In coordination with supply chain, ensure product(s) is/are available at account level.
  • Operate in a manner that is always in line with compliance and legal requirements and according to the marketing and sales strategies.
  • Act as an ambassador of the BPM brand, its vision and values.
• Stakeholder Engagement
  • Develop long-term relationships between BPM and key strategic accounts and their stakeholders.
  • Identify key external stakeholders and develop deep understanding of their needs, collaborating on initiatives and co-creating mutually beneficial solutions that will add value to them and the patients.
  • Drive the implementation of the innovative offerings with key stakeholders.
  • Support and advise Healthcare professionals on the correct use of BPM product and services portfolio.
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
  • Proactively coordinate collaboration with medical and market access (and other internal stakeholders) to ensure alignment in objectives and activities with accounts and external stakeholders.
  • Monitor the 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.
• Prioritize and manage accounts within Germany by assessing appropriate business opportunities through contacts with key decision-makers and important local stakeholders.
• Systematically analyse 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 market place to achieve financial objectives.
• Experience in hematology and/or dermatology would be greatly appreciated.
• Experience in managing customer relationships across the full spectrum of customer types in healthcare industry.
• Knowledge in therapy and product area.
• Knowledge in National Healthcare system and the local and therapy specific policies that impact decision making.
• Fluent German and English, both written and oral.
• Strategic Approach Balances between the long-term vision while driving the short-term goals.
• Collaboration Establishes productive relationships and partners with others across the organization to ensure common understanding of objectives and achieve shared goals.
• Drive for Results Holds self and others accountable for delivering on commitments that align with our short- and long-term goals, never forgetting the end result is to help patients through innovation in medicine.
• Act with sense of urgency to address key stakeholder needs.
• Motivates and influences others to gain support for ideas, strategies and actions.
• Focuses on customer satisfaction and delivers a quality service or product to the agreed standards; understands the unmet needs of the patients.
• Integrates and drives the application of plans/tactics for functional strategy.
• Influences the functional strategy by defining, building, and communicating processes, relationships, and efficiencies in areas of accountability.
• Commitment to our Core Values: Patients First, Thoughtfulness, Urgency, Trust, Optimism.

Why Blueprint?

At Blueprint Medicines, we achieve impactful results because of our global crew of compassionate innovators – the Blue Crew. Through authentic relationships and our collective entrepreneurial spirit and action, we are each empowered to take ownership and execute with strategic prioritization. We put trust in our people to break through norms and conventions using their individual strengths and insights, which drives our success.

This is the place where the extraordinary becomes reality, and you could be part of it.

Patients are waiting. Are you ready to make the leap?

Blueprint Medicines is a global, fully integrated biopharmaceutical company that invents life-changing medicines. We seek to alleviate human suffering by solving important medical problems in two core focus areas: allergy/inflammation and oncology/hematology. Our approach begins by targeting the root causes of disease, using deep scientific knowledge in our core focus areas and drug discovery expertise across multiple therapeutic modalities. We have a proven track record of success with two approved medicines, including bringing our medicine to patients with systemic mastocytosis (SM) in the U.S. and Europe. Leveraging our established research, development, and commercial capability and infrastructure, we now aim to significantly scale our impact by advancing a broad pipeline of programs ranging from early science to advanced clinical trials in mast cell diseases including SM and chronic urticaria, breast cancer and other solid tumors.

*Blueflex is our operating model which optimizes culture, productivity, & flexibility by maximizing the critical strengths of in-person work with the benefits of added flexibility. Blueflex allows for mix of in-office and remote work, enables flexibility to meet individual and business needs and makes effective use of our facilities and resources. It is a culture enhancer.