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Title: Key Account Manager, Specialty Sales
Date: Jul 2, 2025
Location: Sun Pharma Canada Inc.
Company: Sun Pharma Canada Inc.
Job Purpose The role of the Key Account Manager is to maximize the sales and profit potential of the specialty portfolio in a defined territory. This will be achieved through the coordination of internal and external stakeholders to ensure Taro/Sun specialty products are top of mind with key decision makers and patients across the patient journey and buying process.
Duties And Responsibilities
- Achieves / exceeds annual net sales targets in a defined territory North East Ontario
- Maximize current portfolio sales and profitability
- Develop and implement cross functional business plans for the territory
- Conduct regular business reviews analyzing product performance against key metrics while providing key recommendations for accelerating growth
- Position Taro/Sun as a key competitor in the specialty space
- Identify key opportunities and potential partnerships to grow the specialty portfolio
- Establish and maintain business relationships with key stakeholders, including drug access navigators, professional and patient associations, nurses, patient support program coordinators, hospitals and specialty pharmacy
- Develop key advocates and KOLs for peer to peer selling opportunities
- Assist with removing barriers to access by working collaboratively with cross functional colleagues where appropriate
- Profile customers and segment migration in CRM
- Accurate and timely reporting of customer and business records through CRM system using agreed upon performance metrics
- Demonstrated ability to manage accounts in both a virtual setting while maintaining engagement through in person and digital channels
- Work with Business Development and Marketing to identify potential pipeline opportunities
- Identify best practices and value-added opportunities; build/enhance selling processes and procedures
- Organize local and regional educational opportunities including OLAs, symposia and conferences
- Manage territory expenses appropriately and within budget
Additional Responsibility (Only Applicable To Customer Facing Roles) Report any adverse event received from customers for company products to the pharmacovigilance department / Drug Safety on the same day or within 1 business day
Qualifications
- College/University degree
- 5 years of Key Account experience
- Specialty experience a significant asset
- 5 years + Hospital pharmacy sales experience
- Product focus on specialty therapeutic areas that include orals, biologics, and injectables; biosimilars an asset
- Oncology experience preferred
- Knowledge of regulatory, health authority, provincial cancer agency guidelines and policies in a given province
- Ability to identify customer needs, competition within highly regulated environment
- Solving customer service issues and territory challenges with a positive solution -based approach
- Creativity in differentiating Taro/Sun from competitors
- Manage account profitability
Working conditions
- Generally good working conditions
- Travel as required
Physical Requirements Field based
Direct reports NA
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About SUN PHARMA
Sun Pharma is the world's fourth-largest speciality generic pharmaceutical company and No. 1 in India. We provide high-quality, affordable medicines trusted by customers and patients in over 100 countries. Sun Pharma's global presence is supported by more than 40 manufacturing facilities spread across 5 continents, R&D centres across the globe, and a multicultural workforce comprising over 50 nationalities. Sun Pharma fosters excellence through innovation supported by strong R&D capabilities comprising around 3,000 scientists and R&D investments of over 6-8% of annual revenues.
At Sun, our people are our greatest asset. Ours has never been a story of individual brilliance but of cultivating a culture of realising collective potential. In our journey, everyone is enabled to take charge in an environment that offers limitless growth opportunities. We are with you every step of the way, so you can shine for years to come.
With the launch of our Employee Value Proposition (EVP), we define our promise to ‘Create Your Own Sunshine'—driven by the three pillars of Better Every Day, Take Charge, and Thrive Together. These pillars drive progress at Sun so that people can achieve what they would have thought impossible. Learn more about our EVP here: https://sunpharma.com/careers/
Key Account Manager, Specialty Sales
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Title: Key Account Manager, Specialty Sales
Date: Jul 2, 2025
Location: Sun Pharma Canada Inc.
Company: Sun Pharma Canada Inc.
Job Purpose The role of the Key Account Manager is to maximize the sales and profit potential of the specialty portfolio in a defined territory. This will be achieved through the coordination of internal and external stakeholders to ensure Taro/Sun specialty products are top of mind with key decision makers and patients across the patient journey and buying process.
Duties And Responsibilities
- Achieves / exceeds annual net sales targets in a defined territory North East Ontario
- Maximize current portfolio sales and profitability
- Develop and implement cross functional business plans for the territory
- Conduct regular business reviews analyzing product performance against key metrics while providing key recommendations for accelerating growth
- Position Taro/Sun as a key competitor in the specialty space
- Identify key opportunities and potential partnerships to grow the specialty portfolio
- Establish and maintain business relationships with key stakeholders, including drug access navigators, professional and patient associations, nurses, patient support program coordinators, hospitals and specialty pharmacy
- Develop key advocates and KOLs for peer to peer selling opportunities
- Assist with removing barriers to access by working collaboratively with cross functional colleagues where appropriate
- Profile customers and segment migration in CRM
- Accurate and timely reporting of customer and business records through CRM system using agreed upon performance metrics
- Demonstrated ability to manage accounts in both a virtual setting while maintaining engagement through in person and digital channels
- Work with Business Development and Marketing to identify potential pipeline opportunities
- Identify best practices and value-added opportunities; build/enhance selling processes and procedures
- Organize local and regional educational opportunities including OLAs, symposia and conferences
- Manage territory expenses appropriately and within budget
Additional Responsibility (Only Applicable To Customer Facing Roles) Report any adverse event received from customers for company products to the pharmacovigilance department / Drug Safety on the same day or within 1 business day
Qualifications
- College/University degree
- 5 years of Key Account experience
- Specialty experience a significant asset
- 5 years + Hospital pharmacy sales experience
- Product focus on specialty therapeutic areas that include orals, biologics, and injectables; biosimilars an asset
- Oncology experience preferred
- Knowledge of regulatory, health authority, provincial cancer agency guidelines and policies in a given province
- Ability to identify customer needs, competition within highly regulated environment
- Solving customer service issues and territory challenges with a positive solution -based approach
- Creativity in differentiating Taro/Sun from competitors
- Manage account profitability
Working conditions
- Generally good working conditions
- Travel as required
Physical Requirements Field based
Direct reports NA
Apply Now »
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- Start applying with LinkedIn
- Please wait...
About SUN PHARMA
Sun Pharma is the world's fourth-largest speciality generic pharmaceutical company and No. 1 in India. We provide high-quality, affordable medicines trusted by customers and patients in over 100 countries. Sun Pharma's global presence is supported by more than 40 manufacturing facilities spread across 5 continents, R&D centres across the globe, and a multicultural workforce comprising over 50 nationalities. Sun Pharma fosters excellence through innovation supported by strong R&D capabilities comprising around 3,000 scientists and R&D investments of over 6-8% of annual revenues.
At Sun, our people are our greatest asset. Ours has never been a story of individual brilliance but of cultivating a culture of realising collective potential. In our journey, everyone is enabled to take charge in an environment that offers limitless growth opportunities. We are with you every step of the way, so you can shine for years to come.
With the launch of our Employee Value Proposition (EVP), we define our promise to ‘Create Your Own Sunshine'—driven by the three pillars of Better Every Day, Take Charge, and Thrive Together. These pillars drive progress at Sun so that people can achieve what they would have thought impossible. Learn more about our EVP here: https://sunpharma.com/careers/