Vaccine Retail Account Director

GSK

4d•Remote

About The Position

GSK’s US Vaccines Retail Account Director Team will explore how we can apply the power of our portfolio to creating stronger and more effective working relationships within a group of US Retail Pharmacy accounts to deliver innovation that matters, maximizing our opportunities in disease prevention and changing the course of disease to impact healthcare at scale. The US Vaccines Retail Accounts team has a diverse group of national and regional account customers that are critical to facilitating GSK vaccines access to providers and patients. The Retail Accounts Team is pivotal in owning account relationships with the largest of these national and regional community pharmacy accounts. GSK’s Vaccines Retail Account Director will collectively own and be accountable to deliver GSK’s vaccines performance within targeted accounts. The Vaccines Retail Account Director will cultivate relationships across targeted strategic accounts that drive GSK’s vaccination portfolio growth to maximize our opportunities in disease prevention and change the course of preventable diseases.

Requirements

BS/BA
5+ years of combined experience in the following areas: Vaccines Sales or Account Management, Retail Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sales
Demonstrated account management experience including collaborating with cross-functional teams (Internal and external matrix partners and stakeholders).
Ability to build strategic account results-oriented plans including the ability to define, track, analyze key performance measures and make appropriate data-driven decisions to achieve account performance.
Travel required up to 60% of time

Nice To Haves

Experience successfully leading teams directly by demonstrating emotional intelligence, the ability to influence & by delivering results through others.
Experience negotiating, implementing, and managing contracts with Community Pharmacies, Group Purchasing Organizations, Retail Buying Groups, Health Systems, or payers
Relevant commercial experience (7+ years in healthcare, vaccines, US Market Access)
In-depth knowledge of how the retail pharmacy industry manages and implements vaccine programs.
Proven ability to understand strategy and apply across teams, materials, and customers.
Experience influencing without direct authority across cross-functional teams, working effectively in complex situations.
Experience influencing customer C-Suite executives and senior leaders to ensure business objectives are met.
Listens and incorporates different perspectives across medical, clinical, commercial, customer and other functions.
Ability to manage financial budgets and build performance dashboards to help manage business performance.

Responsibilities

Work with Strategic National and Regional Community Pharmacy chains to drive account engagement and performance aligned to GSK’s overall Vaccines Annual Performance goals.
Lead the overall business relationships with key decision-making personnel between GSK and strategic accounts, inclusive of defining contract terms along dimensions of pricing, volume, marketing partnerships, and inventory return policies, ensuring GSK vaccine product stocking targets are reached and conducting business reviews with appropriate stakeholders to ensure short- and long-term strategic partnerships.
Deliver competitive profitable immunization growth of GSK’s vaccines with Retail Channel Strategic Accounts.
Accountable for customer specific Retail performance narrative and diagnosis, inclusive of customer insight themes, key retailer performance metrics, measures for profitable volume growth opportunities and the achievement of strategic account business objectives.
Leads key relationships with National and Regional Community Pharmacy chains focused on improving vaccination rates, access to immunizations, and improving public health.
Accountable to own GSK’s relationships to ensure strong business plans are in place and execution is aligned to agreed metrics and contract terms. Serve as single point of contact between assigned strategic accounts and GSK resources (e.g., Clinical, Legal, Field Sales, Marketing and Market Access) and the expert on the Retail customer’s unique customer base, business model, and strategic outlook.
Develop, execute, and maintain Retail customer level strategic account plans, including SWOT and market landscape analyses as well as Retail marketing programs to ensure an accurate portrait of each customer opportunity enabling GSK to maximize profitable immunization growth opportunities. Mutually agree on action steps holding GSK and customer accountable for aligned issue resolution.
Identify, monitor, and communicate key changes /marketplace trends in channel landscape (e.g., strategic alliances, key customer organizational changes, competitive contracting information) impacting GSK patients (e.g., contracts, marketing programs, product availability, and changes in vaccines policy).