Portfolio Account Specialist - Immunology (QLD + WA)

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Hiring Remotely in Queensland, AUS
Remote
Mid level
Biotech • Pharmaceutical
The Role
This role focuses on driving sales growth in immunology by building customer relationships, understanding their needs, and collaborating with internal teams while adhering to compliance standards.
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Job Description Summary

Are you driven by making a meaningful impact for customers, patients, and the healthcare system? Do you bring a growth mindset, strong account management capability, and the confidence to take smart, considered risks in a complex hospital and specialist environment?
We are looking for a Portfolio Account Specialist to join our existing high-performing Immunology team, promoting our foundational immunology therapy and working closely with dermatologists across Queensland and Western Australia. This role will support our PsO and HS indications, partnering with healthcare professionals and key stakeholders to deliver value, improve customer experience, and support better patient outcomes in a compliant and ethical way.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone with strong external experience in the hospital ecosystem, deep customer engagement skills, and a passion for building trusted relationships across specialist care.
As a Portfolio Account Specialist, you will be a leading driver of customer interactions and sales performance. You will represent our customer experience approach, building deep, insight-led relationships that deliver value for healthcare professionals, customers, and patients.
You will use data, customer insights, and strong account planning to identify opportunities, prioritise high-potential customers, and orchestrate meaningful engagements across multiple channels. Working closely with cross-functional teams, you will help design and deliver solutions that address customer needs and support the patient journey.


 

Job Description

  • Drive competitive sales growth across your territory, with a focus on Queensland and Western Australia.

  • Identify and prioritise high-potential healthcare professionals and stakeholders who influence treatment decisions.

  • Build and maintain strong relationships with dermatologists, opinion leaders, and key stakeholders within the hospital and specialist ecosystem.

  • Engage customers through value-based conversations, both in person and virtually, to understand their challenges, priorities, pain points, and opportunities.

  • Develop tailored customer engagement plans that reflect customer preferences and leverage available content and channels.

  • Create memorable, customer-centric experiences by listening deeply and understanding the healthcare environment in which customers operate.

  • Partner with healthcare professionals to support sustained, ethical, and compliant collaboration over time.

  • Gather and apply deep customer insights to inform territory, account, and customer interaction plans.

  • Share customer insights with internal stakeholders to support relevant product, indication, campaign, and engagement planning.

  • Collaborate compliantly with cross-functional teams to develop solutions that address unmet customer and patient needs.

  • Act as a trusted partner to customers, bringing integrity, transparency, and a value-add mindset to every interaction.

  • Uphold the highest standards of professional ethics, compliance, and company values.

  • Report technical complaints, adverse events, and special case scenarios related to company products within required timeframes.

  • Support distribution of marketing samples where applicable and compliant.

What we’re looking for

We are seeking someone who is commercially sharp, externally focused, and motivated by impact. You will be confident operating in a complex healthcare environment and skilled at building trusted relationships with specialist customers.

You will bring:

  • Experience in healthcare, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or a related commercial environment.

  • Strong account management experience, ideally within hospital, specialist, or dermatology settings.

  • Established relationships within the target customer group, desirable but not essential.

  • Experience working across complex healthcare ecosystems with multiple stakeholders.

  • Strong commercial acumen and the ability to translate insights into action.

  • A growth mindset and willingness to take smart, considered risks.

  • Excellent communication, influencing, and negotiation skills.

  • Strong customer insight generation and account planning capability.

  • Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

  • High standards of compliance, ethics, and professional integrity.

  • Product or immunology experience, desirable but not essential.

Why join us?

You will join a high-performing, collaborative, and purpose-driven team with a strong commitment to customers, patients, and ethical business growth. This role offers the opportunity to make a real impact in immunology, working with leading dermatology customers across Queensland and Western Australia while contributing to a culture focused on performance, accountability, and innovation.

If you are an experienced healthcare sales professional who thrives in specialist environments, builds meaningful customer partnerships, and is motivated by improving the patient journey, we would love to hear from you.


 

Skills Desired

Account Management, Commercial Excellence, Communication Skills (Inactive), Compliance (Inactive), Conflict Management, Cross-Functional Coordination, Customer Insights, Ethics, Influencing Skills, Selling Skills (Inactive), Technical Skills (Inactive)

Skills Required

  • Established network in target customer group
  • Sales experience in Healthcare or Pharma
  • Specific product knowledge

Novartis Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Novartis and has not been reviewed or approved by Novartis.

  • Healthcare Strength Pay and benefits are described as a strong overall package, supported by medical, dental, and vision insurance alongside FSAs/HSAs and disability and life coverage. Mental-health support is reinforced through an employee assistance program with psychological support and a network of mental health first aiders.
  • Retirement Support Retirement support is positioned as a standout element, with an automatic company contribution plus dollar-for-dollar matching in the 401(k). Additional retirement funding is described through an age-based defined contribution program and access to an employee share purchase plan discount.
  • Parental & Family Support Family-related benefits are framed as robust, including a global minimum of paid parental leave for new parents following birth or adoption. Added supports include domestic partner coverage, dependent-care resources, and benefits such as adoption assistance and child/elder care options.

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The Company
HQ: Basel
110,000 Employees
Year Founded: 1996

What We Do

Novartis is an innovative medicines company. Every day, working to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives so that patients, healthcare professionals and societies are empowered in the face of serious disease. Our medicines reach more than 250 million people worldwide.

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