Head of Key Account & Trade Strategy - Pharma

Posted:
1/25/2026, 5:51:29 PM

Location(s):
Bangkok, Thailand

Experience Level(s):
Expert or higher ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Business & Strategy ⋅ Growth & Marketing ⋅ Sales & Account Management

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
Implement a key account and trade strategy for one or more of the organization's more complex, controversial, or strategically significant products/services in order to meet established sales or market share targets.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Direct the activities of the key account group for the achievement of short and long term business objectives, increased profit and market share.
  • Translating marketing strategies into day to day working sales and promotional strategy and driving this through Sales Managers. Maximize sales force effectiveness to ensure that those strategies are well implemented with feedback/inputs from market are communicated and documented for sales & marketing management to tackle with those issues.
  • Closely monitor actual sales vs. forecast and conduct root cause analysis if there might be any deviation to ensure that marketing strategies and activities fit with the plan. Ensure those KPI related to sales are in-line with target.
  • Maintain necessary contact with key customers, industry associations and government representatives to achieve the objectives of the division.
  • Develop and manage the expense budget within plan by allocating monies appropriately and regularly monitoring performance.  
  • Give education on necessary knowledge and skill to the team. Manage the people issues e.g. recruitment, retention, development plans, succession planning, training etc.
  • Actively seek, identify, analyze, and present new business opportunities and improvement ideas to senior management on an ongoing basis.


QUALIFICATIONS

  • Tertiary Qualifications in a science, business or management discipline or equivalent
  • Minimum 10 years appropriate trade sales/ key account management experience in pharma with nationwide area.
  • Comprehensive industry knowledge.

     

The base pay for this position is

N/A

In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

     

JOB FAMILY:

Product Management

     

DIVISION:

EPD Established Pharma

        

LOCATION:

Thailand > Bangkok : Q-House Lumpini Building

     

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

     

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

     

TRAVEL:

Yes, 50 % of the Time

     

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

Yes

     

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:

Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Continuous standing for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)

     

     

     

Abbott

Website: https://abbott.com/

Headquarter Location: Illinois City, Illinois, United States

Employee Count: 1001-5000

Year Founded: 1944

IPO Status: Public

Last Funding Type: Post-IPO Debt

Industries: Biotechnology ⋅ Emergency Medicine ⋅ Genetics ⋅ Health Care ⋅ Health Diagnostics ⋅ Manufacturing ⋅ Medical ⋅ Medical Device ⋅ Nutrition ⋅ Pharmaceutical