Retail Channel Manager

Retail Channel Manager

Location: This is a nationwide field-based position. Must live near a major airport. - Southwest - TX NM AZ and NV.

Role Overview:

For more than 140 years GSK has pioneered novel research methods and technologies to help protect people from infectious diseases. Our vaccines portfolio of more than 20 marketed vaccines is the broadest in the industry helping to protect people throughout their lives. We believe prevention at scale and for impact is the best health investment for society patients and the economy. Vaccine-preventable diseases are a significant burden on society and healthcare systems: approximately $1 trillion in productivity is lost each year due to preventable conditions. This includes the impact from the 330000 older adults hospitalized globally each year with RSV approximately 1 in 3 people who will develop shingles in their lifetime and the 3-11% of people infected with seasonal influenza each year. Our Vaccines portfolio will reach around half of the more than 2.5 billion people we will reach this decade. Each year around 40% of children globally receive a GSK vaccine and GSK is well-placed to lead in the growing adult immunization market.

GSKs 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 regional accounts Pharmacy Buying Groups and independent pharmacies.

GSKs Vaccines Retail Account Director will collectively own and be accountable to deliver GSKs vaccines performance within targeted accounts. The Vaccines Retail Account Director will cultivate relationships across targeted strategic accounts that drive GSKs vaccination portfolio growth to maximize our opportunities in disease prevention and change the course of preventable diseases.

Key Responsibilities:

• Partner with Strategic National Regional and Independent Retail Pharmacies to drive account engagement and performance aligned to GSKs 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 GSKs vaccines with Retail Channel Strategic Accounts.
• Accountable for customer specific Retail performance narrative and diagnosis inclusive of customer (field and medical) 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 State Pharmacy Organizations focused on improving vaccination rates access to immunizations and improving public health.
• Accountable to own GSKs 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 customers 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).

Why You

Basic qualifications:

• BS/BA
• Minimum 5 years of Vaccine Sales Account Management Retail Pharmacy Payer or Market Access experience.
• Account management experience including collaborating with cross-functional teams (Internal and external matrix partners and stakeholders).
• Nationwide travel required (up to 55%). Must live near a major airport.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience negotiating implementing and managing contracts with Group Purchasing Organizations Retail Buying Groups
• 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.
• 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 successfully leading teams directly by demonstrating emotional intelligence the ability to influence & by delivering results through others.
• 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.

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Why GSK

Uniting science technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade as a successful growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make so were committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how together we deliver for patients shareholders and our people.

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