Key Account Manager - Basel

Key Account Manager - Mental Health

Mid region: brick 2113-2184; Basel-Basel land-Solothurn-Aargau-Luzern-Zug-Bern

Put your first-class sales skills to good use as a Key Account Manager specialising in Mental Health. This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious, passionate individual to make a difference at the cutting edge of the medical industry, establishing relationships with customers . You’ll be working across your territory to raise product awareness, in a role that will let you develop your career in the direction that you want it to take. The role will help you expand your therapeutic and clinical expertise, as well as help improve patient care.

The Role:

• Drive Sales growth. The Key Account Manager is accountable for leading sales growth in line with sales targets ensuring effective uptake and adherence of positive guidance.

• Utilises market, customer and environmental insights to develop local account plans, translating these into both strategic and tactical levers.

• Own the account objectives and monitor progress against the relevant Key Performance Indicators.

• Defines the target customer lists which will drive the implementation of the account plan and ensures appropriate contact with these customers.

• Develops key influencers in the target accounts to become advocates.

• Identifies targets and develops advocacy in key influencers across the mental health trust and relevant primary and intermediary services.

Skills and Experience:

• The successful candidate will have a solid understanding and track record of launching products and driving Hospital sales growth.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, communication should be reliable and swift.
• Strong analytical and written skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills and able to collaborate effectively with colleagues internally and externally.
• Must be able to operate with a high level of personal accountability, sense of urgency and self-motivation.
• Must have at least 3 years’ experience of secondary care working, launching hospital products and proven track record of sales.
• Broad based knowledge of the Pharmaceutical environment in Switzerland, its modernisation agenda, the local resulting changes/ needs and how these link to Company goals.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively manage a territory business by engaging in strong customer relationships, customer targeting, managing call volumes and Advocate development.
• Proven commercial acumen, with clear understanding of Key Account Management, the business market dynamics and the ability to accurately assess and convey market access intelligence to shape plans.
• Demonstrated ability to influence relationships and leverage knowledge internally across a matrix structure, to optimise opportunities with customers and achieve shared goals.
• Broad based knowledge of Mental Health is desirable but not essential.
• Fluent in/first language German.
• Current driving licence

Why join us?

You’ll have the opportunity to play an important part in helping our clients drive healthcare forwards, whilst working for a company that recently received a Gold Standard Investor’s in People Award, as well as being one of FORTUNE Magazine’s World’s Most Admired Companies for the third year in a row.

Reimagine healthcare with us at IQVIA.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status