UK Country Manager

Headquartered in the vibrant city of Galway, Ireland, with offices around the world, Aerogen is proud to be the world leader in acute care aerosol drug delivery. Recognised through multiple MedTech awards and ten-time winner of the Zenith award for Respiratory Care Excellence in North America, collectively our employees make a difference to patients' lives every day, having already reached 20 million patients in over 80 countries.

Our talented and skilled team collaborate to innovate, challenge and test not only in relation to our products but every facet of how we work. We lead the way, finding innovative solutions to even the most complex problems, all in the name of delivering better patient care.

Our business is growing rapidly across the globe and as we grow, our core culture of "We Care" universally connects us. We believe that your ambition and integrity fuels ours and we are committed to supporting our employees to reach their full potential through tangible investment in their careers. Join us as we continue to .

What is the role?

The Country Manager (CM) will lead a field sales and clinical education team to meet revenue targets within the United Kingdom. The CM will lead the hiring, development, and management of the sales and clinical education team to implement growth strategies and initiatives as defined by Commercial leadership and supported by Marketing resources. The CM is also responsible for ensuring consistent profitable sales growth that achieves Aerogen's plan commitments by not only driving the topline revenue growth, but also by managing expenses and costs within the area of responsibility. The CM is the fundamental link between strategy and execution within Aerogen's sales team. They demonstrate success by recruiting exceptional talent, coaching, and developing their team to excellence, and driving proven sales processes to profitably expand market share within their assigned area. In addition, the role requires the development of collaborative and results orientated relationships with Aerogen marketing, Medical Scientists, and the broader management team.

What are the key responsibilities?

• Full responsibility for the UK Profit and Loss (P&L) management.
• Responsible for driving the sales strategy and revenue across assigned geography.
• Build and aggressively execute plan for achieving sales revenue and operating budget for Aerogen within the region.
• Leverage all provided Sales Excellence tools to maximize sales effectiveness in the region.
• Develop, mentor, manage team by establishing and executing individual performance goals aligned with corporate objectives as well as development plans for the team.
• Conduct territory field visits, coaching calls, individual territory business reviews to ensure plan achievement.
• Support marketing, clinical areas to launch new products, executing according to global marketing guidelines, in combination with established objectives.
• Ensure strong customer engagement in key markets including systematic KOL engagement and close liaison with MSL (Medical Science Liaison) teams to support and address necessary evidence gaps.
• Ownership of marketing budget and executing marketing plan.
• Acquire and develop value based and strategic selling skills; ability to develop team in these areas.
• Identify, manage, and develop key contractual relationship in the region to drive sales results.

What Education and Experience are required?

• Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent education level in country/region) or equivalent working experience.
• Experience working with key accounts, frameworks.
• Proven track record of consistently overperforming and excelling.

What key skills will make you great at the role?

• Excellent communication (verbal and written), interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Strong problem solving and negotiation skills.
• Maintain established care business hours with additional hours and weekends as warranted by project assignment, required travel or business demands.
• Proficiency in use of desktop software applications, such as MS office.
• Clinical background and training.
• Strong leadership, organizational, communication, analytical business acumen, learning application and team development skills.
• Demonstrate a proven track record of hiring and developing top talent.
• The CM is expected to cover the entire region with frequent travel and overnight trips required (at least 50%)
• Cross functional teamwork and collaboration with to achieve agreed company goals.
• High energy, self driven, and persuasive and effective communicator to collaboratively achieve team results and retain talent.
• Strong region management skills and proven ability to drive multiple opportunities across geography.
• Ability to manage a complex sales process that has clinical, financial, and executive customers.
• Demonstrate a high degree of influencing skills with peers, clinicians, economic buyers, and physicians.

What is it like to work at Aerogen?

Our purpose is to transform patient lives and our ethos is to . This also translates to how we look after our people. We want talented, passionate and engaged people to join Aerogen and build your career with us. We understand that your life evolves through different stages, and we are here to support our global team with a range of financial and non financial rewards and benefits. There's something for everyone! Here is an idea of what we offer:

• Opportunities for development and professional growth.
• Aerogen Connect - our employee led program that helps our global teams unite and have fun.
• We donate 1% of profits and time to charities and organizations.

Check Out our career's website for more information about life at Aerogen.

Aerogen is committed to promoting diversity, inclusion and equality in the workplace. If you have any difficulty using our application process, please contact us by emailing . Please include your name and preferred method of contact.