Strategic Account Manager - Radioligand Therapies
About this opportunity
As a Strategic Account Manager, you will lead engagement and business growth for RLT within key hospital accounts. This role goes beyond traditional sales - it requires strategic account leadership, building partnerships across multiple stakeholders such as healthcare professionals (HCPs), administrators, procurement teams, and technologists. You will lead the introduction of innovative therapies, shape disease management with multidisciplinary teams, ensure operational readiness for RLT programs and drive sustainable relationships that deliver long-term value for both Novartis and our customers.
Onboarding Location: Mumbai Work Location-Hyderabad / Bengaluru || Area of coverage: South zone.Key responsibilities: Develop and execute strategic account plans for hospitals with nuclear medicine capabilities; align on account objectives and implement dedicated action plans. Drive adoption of RLT through value-based discussions, referral network development, and stakeholder engagement across clinical, operational, and administrative functions. Negotiate contracts, guide key account initiatives, and provide strategic input on growth opportunities and programs. Analyze market dynamics, including competitive intelligence; share insights and identify regional opportunities for performance improvement. Drive several initiatives and educational programs independently or in collaboration with marketing/medical teams, aligned with tactical plans. Demonstrate deep understanding of radioligand therapy mechanisms, disease pathways, and clinical data, and clearly interpret complex scientific information to support evidence-based discussions and decision-making with multidisciplinary stakeholders. Contribute to stakeholder mapping, segmentation, and profiling; ensure accurate and timely data entry in Novartis CRM systems. Collaborate cross-functionally with marketing, market access, supply chain, and other teams to deliver annual business plans and operational readiness. Reporting of technical complaints/adverse events/special case scenarios Essential Requirements: Sales revenue and growth for Radioligand Therapies in designated accounts. Achievement of account objectives and operational readiness for RLT programs. Customer engagement metrics and quality of stakeholder relationships. Compliance with reporting timelines and CRM data accuracy. Desirable Requirements: 8–10 years in oncology and/or medical devices, preferably in multinational pharmaceutical companies. Proven experience in strategic account management and cross-functional collaboration. Strong understanding of MNC culture, compliance, and governance. Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy or related field. Skills: Excellent communication, negotiation, and relationship-building skills. Ability to interpret and present complex scientific information clearly. Strategic thinking and problem-solving capabilities. Languages: English (mandatory). Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion / EEO paragraph: Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams’ representative of the patients and communities we serve. Why Novartis: Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Ready to create a brighter future together? https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture Benefits and Rewards: Read our handbook to learn about all the ways we’ll help you thrive personally and professionally: https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards
Job details
How this role compares
Computed from every other active Sales role in our database, not just this employer's listings.
We currently track 436 comparable Manager Sales roles across 63 biopharma companies.
Salary context
85 of 436 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)
Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.
Where these roles are based
Top locations among the 436 comparable roles
+ 40 more countries
Seniority mix
436 of 436 peers have a known seniority level
Therapeutic area mix
123 of 436 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden
Similar opportunities
The closest matches from our peer group, ranked by how similar they are, not how well you'd qualify for them -- treat this as market context, not a guaranteed shortlist; a weak match is labeled as one below.
Open in 2 locations
How we calculate "similar"
No black box, no LLM guesswork: a deterministic score built from four normalized attributes. Here's this role's own peer group at different match levels, so you can see the mechanism, not just the result.
Every comparison starts from the same 100-point budget: 25 for working in the same function, 40 for the same therapeutic area, 20 for the same or adjacent seniority, 15 for the same country. A dimension we can't confirm on both sides contributes nothing, never a guess, never a free pass.
0 points, never a partial guess. A role we know almost nothing about beyond its function bottoms out at 25%; it never inflates to 100% just because there's little to compare against. Seniority uses a defined ladder (Associate → Manager → Associate Director → Senior → Principal → Director → Senior Director → Executive/VP) so "Director" and "Senior Director" count as adjacent, but "Director" and "Executive/VP" do not.