Executive Director, Account Management

National Leader Of The Ophthalmology Account Management Team

Our company is building the commercial foundation in anticipation of an exciting launch in ophthalmology and this role is at the forefront of it. As the National Leader of the Ophthalmology Account Management Team, you will lead and manage a field team of Account Directors purposefully built around our two late-stage pipeline assets.

This is an opportunity to establish how our company shows up in the evolving ophthalmology market, develop deep strategic partnerships and orchestrate cross functional engagement across teams. You will be a central leader in our customer engagement model, overseeing account managers responsible for key consolidated Retina practices, large managed-service organizations or PE backed networks.

You will play a crucial role in establishing our company as an industry gold standard, supporting healthcare partners and providers, improving patient health outcomes and becoming a trusted resource. This role will report into the US Franchise Leader of Ophthalmology and participate in the Franchise Leadership Team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Team Leadership:
  Establish, recruit and oversee our company's Ophthalmology Account Management Team, including National Account Directors responsible for key corporate accounts and Key Account Managers assigned to districts to engage key retina practices within their responsible geographies
• Strategic Vision:
  Participate as a member of the US Ophthalmology Leadership Team to shape the strategic direction, capabilities and performance of the Ophthalmology franchise
• Account Management:
  Serve as the internal expert on key ophthalmology engagements, providing insights and counsel to senior leadership and representing account segments in business planning forums
• Executive Engagement:
  Provide strategic oversight and executive sponsorship for key organized customer accounts, maintaining selective, high-level engagement with C-suite and clinical leadership, while empowering the account management team to serve as the primary owners of ongoing operational relationships
• Talent Development:
  Coach and mentor a high-performing field team, establishing a culture of accountability and continuous professional development
• Cross-functional collaboration:
  
  Coordinate cross functional execution across SAMs, BEMs, Field Sales, Field Reimbursement and Medical to ensure seamless pull-through across the customer network to meet customer needs while upholding high standards of compliance to company policy
• Launch Excellence and Market Shaping:
  Provide strategic oversight of customer engagement plans, optimize resource allocation and champion collaborations with other field-facing teams

Core Competencies:

Business Literacy Acumen

• Demonstrates expertise in market and landscape understanding: anticipates healthcare market trends, synthesizes complex data from multiple sources and applies insights to shape strategic plans
• Applies strong commercial acumen: interprets customer business priorities, healthcare business models and financial metrics to identify opportunities that improve patient outcomes and drive product access
• Represent our company's ophthalmology franchise to the highest ethical and professional standards, in full compliance with applicable laws, regulations and company policies

Customer Focus

• Excels at people and process mapping: expertly navigates clinical and business decision-making networks across different sites of care to ensure product and patient access
• Builds trusted professional relationships: serves as a trusted advisor to customers by demonstrating deep understanding of their business and professional goals, establishing long-term relationships based on mutual success
• Shapes approaches: develops…