Key Account Manager Cardiovascular Disease to AstraZeneca

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About the position
Key Account Manager – Cardiovascular disease – Nordic-Baltic Marketing Company (NOBA)

Are you an experienced professional with a deep interest in heart failure and looking for new challenges? Apply today and make a difference for patients’ lives!

The Nordic Marketing Company (Nordic) employs around 400 people across 5 countries and has offices located in Södertälje, Copenhagen, Helsinki and Oslo. By 2025 AstraZeneca Nordic aims to become a recognized leader in its core therapy areas and improve the lives of millions of people.
This will be achieved by driving innovative science, delivering key launches, building close collaboration and partnerships with stakeholders in health care systems, and developing high-performing teams.

We are looking for you to come and join our commercial Cardiovascular team as Key Account Manager, Cardiovascular Diseases (CV). This is a temporary employment with planned end date mid 2022. However, there is possibility for extension. Knowledge and experience within the therapeutic area, especially heart failure, will be a success factor in this role. The role is field-based and a covering hospitals nationwide in Sweden.

The Role

As a Key Account Manager, you will become part of AstraZeneca’s strong CVRM franchise, one of our key growth platforms. Our responsibility includes key cardiovascular brands where we have a strong heritage and new treatment indications to be launched in the near future. The role will focus on heart failure and the need for treatment of hyperkalemia.

You will drive sales activities towards various partners e.g. health care professional groups, specialist organizations, and local market access individuals. You engage with nationwide accounts to secure and drive business in collaboration with both local and national cross-functional teams.

What you will do:
• Drive the business related to treatment of hyperkalemia in patients with heart failure in Sweden.
• Have a high customer presence and perform customer face to face and/or digital activities.
• Develop deep understanding of needs and perceptions of key specialists, e.g. prescribers, budget holders, clinic management, etc. Then be able to provide suggestion for solution.
• Build partnerships and secure accounts by driving activities with the right customers within the right accounts.
• Pro-actively identifying business opportunities, communicating value propositions aligned to stakeholder needs and objectives, and recommending solutions.

Who are you?
In order to success, you have:

It is a request to have proven experience from pharmaceutical industry with specialty care experience of working with cardiologists, preferably also within heart failure.
• Previous experience within hyperkalemia and/or heart failure is an advantage.
• Proficiency in meeting customer digitally via different channels.
• Academic degree or equivalent, commercial or healthcare background
• Be able to travel nationwide in Sweden. Driver’s license is required.
• Capability to understand, assimilate and communicate scientific information and Health Economic Outcomes data.
• Commercial innovation - entrepreneurial approach towards customer/partner focused activities to achieve long-term business goals.
• Leadership - ability to coordinate, align and engage cross-functional team to drive activities and address needs of individual accounts.
You must have excellent interpersonal skills and proficient in both written and spoken English and Swedish. Previous experience and integrity in customer interactions will be an asset as well as your ability to focus on customer satisfaction. You are homebased but preferably based in Skåne, Gothenburg area or Mälardalen.

Interested?
Why AstraZeneca?
At AstraZeneca, we turn ideas into life changing medicines and strive to continuously meet the unmet needs of patients worldwide. When we see an opportunity for change, we seize it and make it happen, because any opportunity no matter how small, can be the start of something big.
If you are swift to action, confident to lead, willing to collaborate, and curious about what science can do, then you’re our kind of person. Join us on our journey of building a new kind of organisation to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be.

Additional information

Our Biopharmaceutical Business Unit: https://careers.astrazeneca.com/biopharmaceuticals-business-unit

AZ YouTube channel: “A life-changing day.” with one of AZ´s Key Account Managers: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=aPNTCYyDXuI&list=PLgfkdJlwmkT6h7sZKBXqs7Xj4PobD4RmR&index=4

Are you ready to bring new ideas and fresh thinking to the table? Brilliant! We have one seat available and we hope it´s yours.


So, what’s next?
Are you already imagining yourself joining our team? Good, because we can’t wait to hear from you.
We need your application with CV and personal letter where you describe why you are the right person for the job. Feel free to send your application as soon as possible as interviews take place on an ongoing basis.
If you have any questions regarding the position or the recruitment process, please contact Edita Korac, Consultant Manager edita.korac@logent.se


Logent is a comprehensive and independent logistics partner, with a Nordic base and with global networks. We have a wide range of services and create value for our customers through guaranteed cost and quality improvements. Our services include Logistics Services such as Warehouse Management, Transport Management and Customs, Port and Combined Terminals, Staffing Services and Consulting Services. This means that Logent has grown to a turnover of about SEK 1.5 billion from the start in 2006 and employs approximately 3,000 people.