Oncology Account Manager - Indianapolis/KY/IL

Kura Oncology, Inc.; Field; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation package

Bonus

401K + Employer contributions

Stock options

ESPP Plan

20 days PTO to start

18 holidays

Job summary

Kura Oncology, Inc. is seeking an Oncology Account Manager to lead field-based sales efforts in the designated territory. You will provide healthcare professionals with product information, navigate complex hospital networks, and execute territory plans with a compliance-first mindset.

The role requires strong communication, strategic planning, and the ability to manage budgets while collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive product adoption and overall sales objectives.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree required in business/marketing/healthcare or life sciences.
• 6+ years in pharmaceutical/biotech sales with 3+ years in oncology/hematology or rare disease.
• Occasional overnight travel and schedule flexibility for conferences.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Achieve the assigned sales objective for the territory.
• Communicate balanced, accurate information on FDA-approved products to healthcare professionals.
• Develop and implement a territory business plan.
• Navigate complex hospital and healthcare networks while aligning with cross-functional partners.
• Manage budget, expenses, and CRM reporting within guidelines.
• Ensure compliance with drug laws, regulations, and company policies.
• Complete training on product knowledge, disease state, and selling skills.
• Identify issues and opportunities and communicate with marketing/sales management.
• Expand use of assigned products by understanding HCP and account needs.

Skills

Communication skills

Territory management

Travel willingness

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

Education

Undergraduate degree in business/marketing/healthcare/life sciences

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Are you ready to join a team committed to making a meaningful impact on cancer treatment through the discovery and development of precision medicines? At Kura Oncology, you have an opportunity to be a part of something bigger, with a lasting impact that you can be proud of.

At Kura Oncology, we are working to change the paradigm and improve the science of cancer treatment. As an organization, we strive to cultivate a diverse and talented professional culture driven to develop precision medicine therapeutics.

As we continue to build a leading biotech organization with a strong culture, a patient-focused mindset and a team focused on relentless execution, we are looking for innovative, passionate professionals to join us and make our vision a reality.

To succeed at Kura, you will need to have a demonstrated ability for excellence in drug discovery and development and a roll-up your sleeves attitude. The ideal candidate will possess a values-driven work style where integrity and grit drive all behaviors, decisions, and actions.

Reporting to the Regional Business Director, the Oncology Account Manager (OAM) will contribute to Kuras overall sales objective by performing assigned sales related activities. The OAM will provide physicians, pharmacists, nurses and all healthcare professionals (HCPs) with product, services and approved information that will enable the HCPs to appropriately prescribe Kuras product(s)The OAM will compliantly and successfully implement Kuras marketing strategies and corresponding tactics in order to achieve short-term and long-term objectives. The ideal candidate will be capable of managing the territory and administrative requirements in an efficient and effective manner and will achieve full compliance with drug laws and regulations when representing Kura and Kuras products to Healthcare Providers.

Essential Job Functions

• Achieve the assigned sales objective for the territory
• Attain the designated goals for calls on appropriate healthcare professionals to communicate balanced, accurate, and complete information on Kuras FDA approved products
• Develops and implements a territory business plan to meet customer needs and achieve goals
• Navigate through complex external/customer organizational structures including hospitals, IDNs, GPOs and healthcare communities while aligning with cross-functional commercial partners
• Demonstrate completion of administrative requirements including budget management, expense reports management, CRM call reporting and synchronization, etc. within timelines and company guidelines
• Demonstrates a deep understanding of healthcare professionals (HCP) and account needs, effectively utilizing this knowledge to strategically promote and expand the use of assigned products
• Operate the territory within the assigned expense budget and demonstrates fiscal responsibility
• Comply with all federal/state/local laws, regulations and guidelines including but not limited to the PhRMA Code on Interactions with Healthcare Professionals as well as complying with all Kuras standards and policies relating to all job activities
• Successful completion and ongoing updates of all aspects of training including but not limited to product knowledge, disease state, market, selling skills and compliance
• Assists in the identification and resolution of issues and opportunities while communicating proactively to marketing and sales management
• Develops and consistently demonstrates an expert understanding of HCP and Account needs to appropriately expand use of assigned product.

Job Specifications

• Undergraduate degree required, ideally in business/marketing/healthcare/life science areas of concentration
• 6+ years of successful pharmaceutical/biotech sales experience with 3+ in the oncology/hematology and/or rare disease markets, preferable with oral therapeutic selling experience
• Management of large territories that includes periodic overnight travel
• Occasionally work evenings and weekends as needed for conferences
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Strong computer skills, notably WORD, EXCEL and POWER POINT

Kuras Values that are used for candidate selection and performance assessments:

• We work as one for patients
• We are goal-focused and deliver with excellence
• We are science-driven courageous innovators
• We strive to bring out the best in each other and ourselves

The Kura Package

• Career advancement/ development opportunities
• Competitive comp package
• Bonus
• 401K + Employer contributions
• Generous stock options
• ESPP Plan
• 20 days of PTO to start
• 18 Holidays (Including Summer & Winter Break)
• Generous Benefits Package with a variety of plans available with a substantial employer match
• Paid Paternity/Maternity Leave
• In-Office Catered lunches
• Home Office Setup
• Lifestyle Spending Stipend
• Commuter Stipend (Boston Office)
• Regular employee social activities, including happy hours, monthly birthday celebrations, Kura Koffee Talks, and much more!

Kura Oncology is a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering and developing innovative precision medicines to help patients with cancer lead better, longer lives.

Through our deep understanding of cancer biology and decades of experience in precision oncology, we are studying the underlying causes of treatment resistance. This enables us to design smart combination regimens with other cancer therapies to target tumors from multiple directions, with the goal of improving long-term clinical benefit.

Kura developed and is commercializing KOMZIFTI (ziftomenib), the FDA-approved once-daily, oral menin inhibitor for the treatment of adults with relapsed or refractory NPM1-mutated acute myeloid leukemia, and continues to pioneer advancements in menin inhibition and farnesyl transferase inhibition. For additional information, please visit Kuras website at www.kuraoncology.com and follow us on X and LinkedIn.

Kura Oncology is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

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