WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

Do you have expertise in Immunology/Rheumatology and have passion to accelerate our approved biologic in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) and launch new products in Immunology & rheumatology diseases? Do you understand Key Account Management as putting your customer’s and their patients’ need in the centre of your attention and like to coordinate activities across different functions? Would you like to apply your expertise and passion in a company that follows the science and turns ideas into life changing medicines? Then AstraZeneca might be the one for you! We are strengthening our Immunology franchise and are looking for a passionate professional to bring our life-changing medicines to patients who need them.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

In this role you will be responsible for the commercial, customer related activities in SLE in the West & Central/West of Switzerland, including promotional brand activities, product related physician and healthcare professional education. You will coordinate the activities with and for the key customers of the region within and across a cross-functional team, integrating input from Marketing, Medical and Market Access. We are looking for a candidate that lives customer service and patient orientation and can orchestrate activities across multiple channels based on customer preference and business needs. You are a doer and leverage deep customer and patient insights to ensure our patient centric approach. You can integrate business insights and numbers from excel sheets together with your intuition and customer knowledge into winning strategies and tactics.

OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

• Acquiring and demonstrating a thorough understanding of key customer needs and requirements
• Understand collaborative HCP networks and become a trusted partner and advisor
• Expand existing and develop new relationships with key customers by continuously offering solutions that meet their needs and objectives
• Apply marketing and medical assets and campaigns for your customer engagement plans in digital and F2F communication
• Capture and analyse local and regional needs and collaborate with other field functions and in-office colleagues to develop and offer suitable solutions and information materials
• Develops ideas in co-operation with customers and implement customer facing projects that add-value to patient care and improve treatment pathways

ESSENTIAL FOR THE ROLE

• Demonstrated pharma sales and/or marketing experience
• Prior therapy area experience desired
• Good strategic and analytical skills
• Strong project management skills
• Experience with different commercial and digital channels
• Excellent collaboration and teamwork capabilities
• Excellent communication skills
• Good knowledge in market ethical rules
• Excellent French language skills, English and German skills are also required
• You see omnichannel as a chance, not a buzzword.