Key Account Manager

Full-time

Sobi Location: United Arab Emirates

**Company Description**:
At Sobi, each person brings their unique talents to work as a team and make a difference. We are dedicated to developing and delivering innovative therapies to improve the lives of people who live with a rare disease. Our edge comes from our team of people and our commitment to patients.

Here at Sobi, our mission and culture get us excited to come to work every day, but here are a few more reasons to join our team:

- Competitive compensation for your work
- Emphasis on work/life balance
- Collaborative and team-oriented environment
- Opportunities for professional growth
- Diversity and Inclusion
- Making a positive impact to help ultra-rare disease patients who are in need of life saving treatments
- Communicate to HCPs Disease state knowledge and awareness
- Act as credible field-based reference in order to effectively introduce and build product and disease awareness
- Key Account Manager (KAM) will partner with and ensure the long-term success of customers.
- KAM will be responsible for developing long-term relationships with a portfolio of assigned customers/accounts including Physicians & Payors, connecting with key business executives and stakeholders.
- Assists in the identification and resolution of issues and opportunities, and communicates proactively to sales and marketing management
- KAM should be focused on a customer centricity approach, being able to deliver the best value proposition for each customer and be able to identify key business questions and define priorities from each account, through the development of account plans.
- KAM should be able to design and implement specific projects at account level and interact with hospital Pharmacies, purchasing departments and management boards.
- Analyse performance for all products in the portfolio, identify growth opportunities and provide solutions to management to face all challenges
- Provide, update, and analyse data related to Sobi portfolio in all accounts at area level such as monthly consumption, forecasted orders, phasing of orders, stocks, etc
- Assure that Sobi products are used in the most effective and efficacious manner
- Liaise with cross functions to develop tactical plans for scaling up products’ access and ensure products’ availability
- Liaise with HCPs in order to conduct scientific exchange and support earlier patient identification
- Provide support for evidence-based treatment protocols and pathways
- Identify customers and manage sales promotion of assigned registered products to the target doctors to achieve monthly, quarterly, and annual targets in line with company strategy
- Conduct regular visits and participate in symposiums, congresses, and meetings in order to increase market presence for the company products
- Carry out business related actions in line with the industry code of ethics and in compliance with company policies and procedures
- Develop weekly and monthly visit plans in consultation with the line manager and in compliance with internal sales systems and procedures
- Maintain and update product and competition knowledge to represent Sobi as the leader in rare disease area
- Implement ongoing targeting and profiling of customers
- Liaise with key opinion leaders, get market feedback, and report any relevant information to line manager in line with company procedures and best practice
- Proper reporting and monitoring competition activities & market dynamics
- Enrich continuous collaboration & alignment with Cross-functions in all activities
- Proper planning & time management and high sense of urgency & fast execution of the assigned tasks in our daily work.
- Making decisions in the proper time and taking the lead in initiating the efficient action Plans whenever needed.
- Caring about patients and working together to make Sobi a global leader in getting transformational treatments to people with rare disease and improving their quality of life and saving their lives whenever possible.

**Principal Interfaces / Relationships**
- Internal:_

Leadership of the Regional Haematology BU, including Haematology KAMs, Haematology BU Product Manager, MSMs and Support Staff

Cross functional team, local affiliate management and staff
- External: _

Clinical Haematology treaters, nurses and biomedical scientists, pharmacists as needed plus appropriate required relationships with agreed local market access stakeholders

Opinion leaders and decision makers including local patient organisations

**Qualifications**:
**Education/Learning Experience**

Bachelor’s degree in a Medical field (Pharmacy, Medicine)

**Work Experience**

Experience within Saudi Arabia

Minimum 5-7 years in Sales in Pharmaceutical Industry within assigned geographical area of responsibility

Experience in rare diseases field, Hematology, Nephrology, Oncology preferred.

**Skills/Knowledge**
- Microsoft office (Excel, PowerPoint & Word etc.)
- Ability to Manage diver