Pharmacist Account Manager - Midlands

Site Name: Field Worker - GBR, UK - Derbyshire, UK - Northamptonshire, UK - Staffordshire
Posted Date: Feb 24 2025

Pharmacist Account Manager

Field Based - Midlands

12 Months Fixed Term Contract

This is a territory role, meaning the successful candidate will be able to work remotely within the above territory but with some expectations of national travel and attendance to head office as required.

In the case of national travel this will be mainly in the form of central meetings and training.

As a Pharmacist Account Manager, you will effectively engage with a new and highly significant group of customers on a peer to peer level. You will work a defined territory working with PCN/Cluster pharmacists and other key customers in the NHS across primary care within the respiratory environment.

We create a place where people can grow, be their best, be safe, and feel welcome, valued and included. We offer a competitive salary, an annual bonus based on company performance, healthcare and wellbeing programmes, pension plan membership, and shares and savings programme.

In this role you will:

• Support pharmacists identifying, reviewing and optimising cohorts of patients.
• Promoting GSK's inhaled therapy medications for the treatment of COPD.
• Be accountable for the achievement of sales growth and delivery of activity targets across a defined group of customers, implementing excellently versus Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Demonstrate a high level of selling skills to ensure medicines in the therapy area are prescribed in appropriate patients.
• Identify and access Clinical Pharmacists, Practice-based Pharmacists, Medicines Optimisation Pharmacists, Clinical Directors, and other key customers directly involved in COPD in primary care (and secondary care respiratory pharmacists where applicable in some localities)
• Engage in peer to peer clinical discussion with pharmacists to help support and educate them.
• Engage in multi-channel promotion to fit in with both healthcare professional and business need.
• Commit to complete therapy area training and individual self-upskilling of current NHS level and local policies on COPD.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications & Skills:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Qualified Pharmacist
• Experience of networking proficiently with key decision makers involved in primary care networks and integrated care systems
• Practical knowledge of the NHS and navigating senior stakeholders, influencing long term patient management strategy
• In depth understanding of NHS decision making process, including knowledge of the funding agreements and flow in the region
• Proficient presentation skills - engage groups of clinicians through presentation of company produced promotional and scientific materials
• Relationships with the key decision makers at a local level would be highly desirable, along with Key Opinion Leader networks and other clinical centers to expand business reach

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

Please note the following skills are not necessary, just preferred, if you do not have them, please still apply:

• Experience in primary care and working with respiratory patients.
• Experience of networking proficiently with key decision makers involved in primary care networks and integrated care systems
• Experience of carrying out quality improvement projects in primary care
• Practical knowledge of the NHS and navigating senior stakeholders, influencing long term patient management strategy
• Working knowledge and understanding of patient care pathways
• Involved with the management of long-term conditions

Closing Date for Applications: 10th March 2025

Please take a copy of the Job Description, as this will not be available post closure of the advert.

When applying for this role, please use the 'cover letter' of the online application or your CV to describe how you meet the competencies for this role, as outlined in the job requirements above. The information that you have provided in your cover letter and CV will be used to assess your application.

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose - to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together - so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns - as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it's also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves - feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are open to all talent.

We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.