Business Account Executive, TTR - Syracuse

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals; Cambridge; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking experienced Business Account Executives to promote innovative treatments for TTR amyloidosis. This role offers a unique opportunity to enhance market knowledge and drive product adoption through strategic partnerships with healthcare providers. The ideal candidate will possess strong sales experience in the biotech or specialty pharmaceutical industry, with a proven track record of success. Join a company that values innovation and integrity, and be part of a team dedicated to transforming patient care. Your contributions will play a pivotal role in advancing groundbreaking therapies and improving lives.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in biotech or specialty pharmaceuticals.
• Strong sales performance and specialty product launch experience.

Responsibilities

• Identify healthcare providers for TTR amyloidosis treatment.
• Build relationships with physicians and manage accounts effectively.

Skills

Sales Experience

Communication Skills

Collaboration

Critical Thinking

Education

4-year degree

MBA/Science Degree

Job description

This role is considered Virtual.

Overview

We are looking for experienced Business Account Executives (BAEs) with specialty sales experience to promote AMVUTTRA. hATTR-PN and ATTR-CM patients often spend years undiagnosed and misdiagnosed. This is an amazing opportunity to educate and enhance the market's knowledge of hATTR-PN and ATTR-CM. In addition, this important role will be a collaborative partner to the local strategic team that supports the account.

The BAE (TTR BAE) will be principally responsible for identifying and/or targeting healthcare providers and accounts managing and treating patients with TTR amyloidosis to develop plans to increase brand awareness and product adoption within their assigned territory. The BAE will be responsible for achieving territory targets and other business objectives through account and customer strategies, while also partnering & collaborating very closely with internal and external stakeholders to effectively manage all aspects of the regional business.

Achievement of targets will be grounded in Alnylam's core values-our unwavering commitment to people, a sense of urgency, passion for excellence, innovation and discovery, and an open culture-while upholding the highest standards of integrity.

This position reports to the Regional Business Director within its respective area.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify and/or target healthcare providers and accounts managing and treating patients with TTR amyloidosis to develop plans to increase brand awareness and product adoption.
• Continuously assesses sales opportunities and challenges within territory and accounts to maintain and grow their business.
• Effectively prioritizes and manages time, activities, and resources to optimize access to and development of accounts with the most sales potential.
• Builds and maintains relationships with physicians by maximizing their time through pre-call planning, leveraging insights to tailor a call plan, and conducting post-call analysis to continually refine and enhance their approach.
• Proactively builds effective working relationships with internal/external stakeholders; can drive agreement/decisions from multiple stakeholders; can read people's emotions and flex communication style. Adjusts their approach based on different stakeholder needs, concerns, or audience member to drive alignment and meet their work goals.
• Effectively communicates and closely collaborates with stakeholders across commercial, compliance, legal, market access, and patient care centers to help ensure access at site of care.
• Builds individual account plans for key accounts and physicians including how to approach those customers, achieve sales goals, and maximize sales results.
• Collaborates with key accounts and physicians to drive patient identification through market development and physician education; develop a territory strategy to retain customers.
• Effectively utilizes resources such as programs, in-services, and in office presentations to impact territory results.
• Demonstrates and upholds the highest standards of integrity and compliance.
• Additional responsibilities as required to support business needs and organizational priorities.

Qualifications

• 4-year degree from an accredited college or university required. MBA/Science Degree preferred.

• 5+ years of progressive and successful business experience in biotech or the specialty pharmaceutical industry.

• Experience in Cardiology

• A successful track record of strong sales performance.

• Specialty product launch experience

• Understanding of buy and bill and specialty channel distribution is preferred.

• Hospital / Institution knowledge and expertise with pharmacy formulary processes.

• Experience in driving, leading and delivering upon territory-level cross functional business planning and influencing without authority.

• Demonstrates adherence to all company policies, industry regulations, and ethical standards, ensuring compliant business practices at all times.

• Excellent communication and listening skills.

• Collaboration: Builds strong relationships with internal teams, contributes insights, and independently and proactively engages cross-functional partners to solve issues.

• Customer Focus: Consistently tailors brand messaging by learning customer needs and preferences while deepening product knowledge and market knowledge.

• Execution: Takes ownership of territory, aligns goals with regional objectives, and develops detailed, customer-focused business plans that are continuously reviewed for impact.

• Critical Thinking: Utilizes data analysis tools to identify sales trends, anticipate risks, refine strategies, and make informed decisions with growing independence.

• Must be comfortable spending 60% of time traveling; some overnight travel required including travel to Boston, congresses and within large geographical territories.

• Driving is an essential duty of the job; candidates must have a valid driver's license to be considered and be insurable.

• Must live within assigned territory.

About Alnylam:Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: ALNY) has led the translation of RNA interference (RNAi) into a whole new class of innovative medicines with the potential to transform the lives of people afflicted with rare and more prevalent diseases. Based on Nobel Prize-winning science, RNAi therapeutics represent a powerful, clinically validated approach to treating diseases at their genetic source by "interfering" with mRNA that cause or contribute to disease. Since our founding in 2002, Alnylam has led the RNAi Revolution and continues to turn scientific possibility into reality.

Our culture:Our people-first culture is guided by our core values: fiercely innovative, open culture, purposeful urgency, passion for excellence, and commitment to people, and these values influence how we work and the business decisions we make. Thanks to feedback from our employees over the years, we've been fortunate to be named a top employer around the world. Alnylam is extremely proud to have been recognized as the #1 Large Employer by Boston Globe Top Places to Work in 2023 for the third consecutive year, one of Science Magazine's Top Biopharma Employers, one of America's Most Responsible Companies for 2024 by Newsweek, a Fast Company Best Workplace for Innovators, and a Great Place to Work in Canada, France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, and UK - among others.

At Alnylam, we commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equal employment opportunity. We are dedicated to building an environment where employees can feel that they belong, can bring their authentic selves to work, and achieve to their full potential. By empowering employees to embrace their unique differences at work, our business grows stronger with advanced and original thinking, allowing us to bring groundbreaking medicines to patients. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ethnicity, marital status, protected veteran status, disability, or any other characteristics prohibited by law.

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