Key Account Manager - Northern England

GSK; High Offley; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A global healthcare leader in the UK is seeking a results-driven professional as a Key Account Manager to drive uptake of their severe asthma treatment. You will engage with stakeholders across NHS tiers, leveraging insights for strategic account plans. Ideal for candidates with healthcare sales experience and ABPI certification, offering professional growth in impactful healthcare solutions.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Annual bonus

Healthcare and wellbeing programmes

Pension plan

Shares/savings programme

Qualifications

• Proven experience in healthcare or pharmaceutical account management, sales, or a related field.
• Current ABPI certification.
• NHS knowledge and experience in a specialized disease area.

Responsibilities

• Influence prescribing decisions at key sites.
• Build trust and relationships with stakeholders across NHS.
• Utilise launch expertise to develop strategies for product introduction.

Skills

Account management

Sales experience

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Education

ABPI certification

Job description

Overview

GSK remains committed to achieving bold commercial ambitions for the future. By 2031, we aim to deliver £40 billion in annual sales, leveraging our momentum to positively impact billions of patients globally. Our Ahead Together strategy focuses on early intervention to prevent and alter disease, protecting people and supporting healthcare systems. Our portfolio includes vaccines, specialty medicines, and general medicines. We are seeking a results-driven professional with proven account management and launch experience to join our Severe Asthma team as a Key Account Manager. The role is to ensure our product is the preferred severe asthma treatment and to improve access to biologics through local and regional patient pathways. This position is ideal for candidates who thrive in dynamic environments and have experience launching innovative therapies in specialized disease areas. If you are passionate about improving patient outcomes, navigating complex healthcare systems, and building strategic partnerships, this role offers meaningful impact and professional growth.

Responsibilities

• Influence prescribing decisions at key sites, driving uptake of our product at individual and local/regional population levels.
• Build trust and relationships with stakeholders across NHS tiers, using insights to create and execute robust account plans.
• Utilise launch expertise to develop strategies that maximise product introduction impact and ensure swift adoption in priority accounts.
• Communicate clinical data effectively, highlighting patient and NHS system benefits, and mobilise External Expert endorsement to broaden advocacy.
• Engage with ICB/payor and care stakeholders to map service pathways, identify barriers to biologics treatment, and deliver tailored solutions to improve patient access.
• Lead cross-functional teams to deliver account objectives, prioritise resources using data and insight, and demonstrate measurable progress against KPIs in line with GSK policy.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in healthcare or pharmaceutical account management, sales, or a related field.
• Current ABPI certification.
• NHS knowledge and experience in a specialised disease area (specialised respiratory and/or biologics) or relevant alternative therapeutic areas.
• Proven ability to work across boundaries with highly specialised external experts, relevant payors, and internal stakeholders.
• Ability to present complex concepts clearly; strong interpersonal, communication, and influencing skills.
• Demonstrated ability to analyse and assimilate data.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills

• Proven experience in product launches, including planning, execution, and monitoring launch metrics.
• Experience of working in this geography previously.

At GSK, we have bold ambitions for patients and aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade. Our R&D focuses on vaccines and medicines, combining immunology expertise with cutting-edge technology. We strive to foster a culture ambitious for patients, accountable for impact, and committed to doing the right thing, accelerating assets that meet patients’ needs. We unite science, technology, and talent to get ahead of disease together. GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We require equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. We support an agile working culture and invite you to discuss flexible options with the hiring team. For US candidates, GSK may be required to report interview-related expenses in accordance with transparency requirements. For more information, please visit CMS Open Payments.

We offer a competitive salary, annual bonus, healthcare and wellbeing programmes, pension plan membership, and a shares/savings programme. We support modern work practices and offer a hybrid working model. Learn more about Life at GSK on our website.