Manager, Cardiovascular Priority Accounts – East Texas-Central

Job Description Summary #LI-Remote This is a field-based and remote opportunity supporting key accounts in an assigned geography. Novartis is unable to offer relocation support for this role. Please only apply if this location is accessible to you. Company will not sponsor visas for this position. The Manager, Cardiovascular Priority Accounts drives product pull-through in targeted Priority Accounts and Affiliated Healthcare Systems within the cardiovascular brand portfolio. This role involves developing and implementing strategic business plans, collaborating with various departments to execute institution-centric programs, and building key business relationships with senior partners. The Manager, Cardiovascular Priority Accounts will engage with decision makers to enable account buying and HCP ordering of Novartis products, while generating insights into new business opportunities. Expertise in Institutional Selling, the US healthcare landscape, and health system structures are essential.   Job Description Key Responsibilities:  • Accountable for building institutional advocacy around formulary adoption of cardiovascular brands to drive appropriate utilization of approved products, while enabling demand by developing, coordinating, and implementing a strategic business plan for identified top Priority Accounts and Affiliated Healthcare Systems. • Build relationships with administrative decision makers, clinical, operational, and financial partners to optimize pathways, transitions of care, treatment protocols, and other workflow enablement and conduct periodic needs assessments with key customers to tailor and communicate insights and activities, engaging with partners to implement new strategies and tactics. • Identifies and enables injection locations suitable to account archetype and pathway, working with administrative stakeholders and cross-functional teams to integrate workflow and EMR. • Possesses basic knowledge of inpatient vs. outpatient billable reimbursement to ensure the strategic account plan is appropriate and understands market and customer economics and access models, including payment programs and industry trends. Maintains general awareness of Novartis price offerings and ensures account administrators are informed about available offerings. • Collaborate with local partners to create and maintain targeted institutional-specific business plans reflecting an understanding of local market forces influencing product sales. • Demonstrates expertise in disease state, marketplace, competitors, industry, and cross-functional activities to anticipate and address business opportunities and challenges. • Provides product and disease state presentations to physicians and their staff, building key business relationships within accounts while leading cross-functional teams to create, implement, and update business plans to achieve product goals. • Supports cross-functional team members in identifying key business opportunities and diagnosing critical business and implementation issues within assigned Priority Accounts and Affiliated Healthcare Systems.   Essential Requirements: • Bachelor’s degree required from 4-year college or university. • 5+ years’ experience in pharmaceutical, biotech, healthcare, or similarly structured industries with large, geographically dispersed teams, and has 2+ years’ experience in specialty buy-and-bill. We also welcome candidates from other complex environments such as medical devices, diagnostics, life sciences services, insurance, consumer health, or B2B sectors, especially where strong field leadership and customer engagement are central to success. • 2+ years’ experience managing complex accounts, including major academic centers and hospitals, with extensive account manag