[Hiring] Long-Term Care Regional Account Manager @Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Role Description

The Long-Term Care Regional Account Manager serves as the strategic leader for regional and national LTC accounts, orchestrating collaboration across internal partners and external stakeholders to deliver an integrated, customer-centric approach across the LTC continuum. This is a field-based position requiring up to 70% travel.

• Manages key regional and national LTC accounts, including pharmacy providers, skilled nursing corporate chain accounts, associations, and integrated health systems.
• Responsible for developing key customer insights and identifying marketplace needs to maximize access, increase education around PDP diagnosis and treatment, and to build a consistent approach to interact with key Long-Term Care (LTC) customers.
• Responsible for coordinating resources to build enduring relationships with key LTC customers balancing both the short-term and long-term corporate goals.
• Demonstrates clinically accurate product and disease state knowledge during interactions with internal and external customers.
• Collaborates across the LTC Ecosystem—including Sales, Managed Markets, Medical, Marketing, and other internal partners—to align priorities and formulate integrated LTC account strategies.
• Develops and implements a geographic LTC business plan that drives regional execution and national impact.
• Identifies key influencers and stakeholders.
• Strengthens ACADIA’s reputation as a trusted partner.
• Provides dynamic, high-level in-service presentations to key account stakeholders at the regional/national level.
• Leads pull-through opportunities and projects through coordinated execution with cross-functional partners across the LTC Ecosystem.
• Develops and implements collaboration plans with internal stakeholders across Institutional, office-based, and other LTC teams to strengthen alignment, share insights, and advance common priorities.
• Provides guidance to LTC Sales team members on regional LTC accounts.
• Serves as a connector across the LTC Ecosystem, aligning Sales Leadership, Managed Markets, Marketing, Medical Affairs, and other internal stakeholders around an integrated strategy for major national accounts.
• Participates and contributes to regional calls and meetings as appropriate.
• Assists the LTC teams in creating strategic business plans for each assigned account, ensuring strong account knowledge that produces results focusing on product and ACADIA team access.
• Establishes work standards that are aligned with ACADIA's corporate culture, vision, and values.
• Adheres to all compliance and promotional guidelines.

Qualifications

• Requires a Bachelor’s degree in marketing, health care, life science, business administration or an equivalent combination of relevant education and experience may be considered.
• A minimum of 7 years of progressively responsible sales, account management and/or marketing experience in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry required.
• A minimum of 3 years’ experience working in a Long Term Care environment/channel and working in a field based position required.
• Experience interacting and developing relationships with KOL’s, Centers of Excellence (COE), or complex integrated health systems is strongly preferred.
• Experience with Fellowship and advocacy programs strongly desired.
• Requires excellent matrix management skills both internally and externally with client base.
• Must be in good standing with the FDA.
• CNS experience strongly preferred.

Requirements

• Broad-based managed markets experience covering a multi-state territory required.
• Demonstrated leadership and excellence in formulating strategies to address future competitive/industry developments.
• Creativity, situation analysis/problem solving skills and analytical skill ability.
• Strong teamwork skills with the ability to lead cooperative, cross-functional efforts across the LTC Ecosystem, organize resources around account priorities, and achieve shared team goals.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills, including genuine care and concern for others, with a proven ability to establish and maintain strong relationships with key accounts.
• Broad business perspective, including a solid working knowledge of office operations and systems.
• Ability to effectively communicate department or area issues and results within and across functional areas and conducting presentations of technical information concerning specific projects or timelines.
• Ability to gain cooperation of others.
• Ability to make and prioritize process and resource decisions based on overall team needs.
• Valid driver’s license and acceptable driving record.
• Ability to travel up to 70% of the time.

Benefits

• Competitive base, bonus, new hire and ongoing equity packages.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Employer-paid life, disability, business travel and EAP coverage.
• 401(k) Plan with a fully vested company match 1:1 up to 5%.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan with a 2-year purchase price lock-in.
• 15+ vacation days.
• 13 -15 paid holidays, including office closure between December 24th and January 1st.
• 10 days of paid sick time.
• Paid parental leave benefit.
• Tuition assistance.