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INTRODUCTION
MannKind Corporation (Nasdaq: MNKD) is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to transforming chronic disease care through innovative, patient-centric solutions. Focused on cardiometabolic and orphan lung diseases, we develop and commercialize treatments that address serious unmet medical needs, including diabetes, pulmonary hypertension, and fluid overload in heart failure and chronic kidney disease. With deep expertise in drug-device combinations, MannKind aims to deliver therapies designed to fit seamlessly into daily life.
Position Summary:
MannKind Corporation is seeking highly motivated Key Account Managers (KAM) to support FUROSCIX’s commercial growth within targeted Integrated Delivery Networks (IDNs), Academic Medical Centers (AMCs), and Hospital Networks. Reporting to the Executive or National Director of Key Accounts, these individuals will be responsible for executing region-specific account plans, managing day-to-day engagement with institutional stakeholders, driving discharge workflows/protocols related to transitions of care ensuring tactical alignment with broader regional and national access strategies, and participating in ongoing business development.
Principal Responsibilities:
Sales & Business Development:
- Identify opportunities for growth, negotiate contracts, and manage the entire sales process for key accounts to impact length of stay and 30-day readmissions.
Account Engagement & Execution:
- Manage assigned institutional accounts within your region, developing and maintaining strong, long-term, strategic relationships with clinical, administrative, and pharmacy decision-makers to support product access, demand generation, and ensure continued success.
Protocol & Pathway Integration:
- Act as the main point of contact and champion client needs by working directly with care teams, prescribers, and EMR stakeholders to support and provide tailored solutions for the inclusion of FUROSCIX in treatment protocols, care pathways, and formularies.
Tactical Account Planning:
- Support development and execution of detailed tactical plans for each account, aligned with broader regional strategy and business objectives. Maintain accurate and up-to-date account profiles.
Cross-Functional Coordination:
- Collaborate closely with Sales, Market Access, Trade, Field Reimbursement, Medical Affairs, Marketing, and Patient Support teams to address account-specific needs and drive FUROSCIX adoption.
Pull-Through Support:
- Identify and execute pull-through strategies in collaboration with internal and field partners, ensuring patients have access to FUROSCIX once formulary access is secured.
Market Insights & Reporting:
- Provide on-the-ground insights to the Director regarding barriers to access, emerging opportunities, and competitor activity within assigned institutions and territory. Analyze pertinent data sources to update and adjust account plans as needed to optimize performance.
Education and Experience Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree required, advanced degree a plus.
- 5–8 years of pharmaceutical or biotech industry experience, with at least 2–3 years in an institutional or account-based role.
- Proven track record engaging with IDNs, AMCs, or large specialty group practices.
- Strong understanding of formulary processes, care delivery models, and account-based selling strategies.
- Experience in collaborating across Sales, Access, Medical, and Marketing teams.
- Knowledge of the cardiorenal space preferred.
- Field based role with regular in-person customer engagements.
- Ability to work evenings and weekends as business dictates.
- Attend and represent MannKind at local, regional, national conferences, trade shows, and community events.
- Willingness to travel within assigned geography (50%–75%).
Power Competency Requirements:
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills.
- Teamwork & Leadership: Functional influencer; builds effective partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives; deliberately includes and inspires colleagues and team members.
- Execution: Leverages diverse resources to efficiently and effectively deliver consistent functional results; resilient and productive in face of unexpected challenges; holds self and others at functional level accountable to meet commitments.
- Solution Maker: Dissects functional process issues to discover opportunities for improvement; leverages resources to deliver function-level solutions/improvements; builds internal and external networks; demonstrates courage to ask questions, try new things and provide actionable feedback.
- Continuous improvement: Creates new ways for self and team to be effective; proactively leverages resources where appropriate; early adopter and implementer of technology and a student of the industry.
- Awareness: Leverages personal strengths and manages limitations; exhibits self-authority and resilience; demonstrates confidence and trust in self/strengths to meet challenges; appropriately adapts behavior to different and changing situations.
INTRODUCTION
MannKind Corporation (Nasdaq: MNKD) is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to transforming chronic disease care through innovative, patient-centric solutions. Focused on cardiometabolic and orphan lung diseases, we develop and commercialize treatments that address serious unmet medical needs, including diabetes, pulmonary hypertension, and fluid overload in heart failure and chronic kidney disease. With deep expertise in drug-device combinations, MannKind aims to deliver therapies designed to fit seamlessly into daily life.
Position Summary:
MannKind Corporation is seeking highly motivated Key Account Managers (KAM) to support FUROSCIX’s commercial growth within targeted Integrated Delivery Networks (IDNs), Academic Medical Centers (AMCs), and Hospital Networks. Reporting to the Executive or National Director of Key Accounts, these individuals will be responsible for executing region-specific account plans, managing day-to-day engagement with institutional stakeholders, driving discharge workflows/protocols related to transitions of care ensuring tactical alignment with broader regional and national access strategies, and participating in ongoing business development.
Principal Responsibilities:
Sales & Business Development:
- Identify opportunities for growth, negotiate contracts, and manage the entire sales process for key accounts to impact length of stay and 30-day readmissions.
Account Engagement & Execution:
- Manage assigned institutional accounts within your region, developing and maintaining strong, long-term, strategic relationships with clinical, administrative, and pharmacy decision-makers to support product access, demand generation, and ensure continued success.
Protocol & Pathway Integration:
- Act as the main point of contact and champion client needs by working directly with care teams, prescribers, and EMR stakeholders to support and provide tailored solutions for the inclusion of FUROSCIX in treatment protocols, care pathways, and formularies.
Tactical Account Planning:
- Support development and execution of detailed tactical plans for each account, aligned with broader regional strategy and business objectives. Maintain accurate and up-to-date account profiles.
Cross-Functional Coordination:
- Collaborate closely with Sales, Market Access, Trade, Field Reimbursement, Medical Affairs, Marketing, and Patient Support teams to address account-specific needs and drive FUROSCIX adoption.
Pull-Through Support:
- Identify and execute pull-through strategies in collaboration with internal and field partners, ensuring patients have access to FUROSCIX once formulary access is secured.
Market Insights & Reporting:
- Provide on-the-ground insights to the Director regarding barriers to access, emerging opportunities, and competitor activity within assigned institutions and territory. Analyze pertinent data sources to update and adjust account plans as needed to optimize performance.
Education and Experience Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree required, advanced degree a plus.
- 5–8 years of pharmaceutical or biotech industry experience, with at least 2–3 years in an institutional or account-based role.
- Proven track record engaging with IDNs, AMCs, or large specialty group practices.
- Strong understanding of formulary processes, care delivery models, and account-based selling strategies.
- Experience in collaborating across Sales, Access, Medical, and Marketing teams.
- Knowledge of the cardiorenal space preferred.
- Field based role with regular in-person customer engagements.
- Ability to work evenings and weekends as business dictates.
- Attend and represent MannKind at local, regional, national conferences, trade shows, and community events.
- Willingness to travel within assigned geography (50%–75%).
Power Competency Requirements:
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills.
- Teamwork & Leadership: Functional influencer; builds effective partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives; deliberately includes and inspires colleagues and team members.
- Execution: Leverages diverse resources to efficiently and effectively deliver consistent functional results; resilient and productive in face of unexpected challenges; holds self and others at functional level accountable to meet commitments.
- Solution Maker: Dissects functional process issues to discover opportunities for improvement; leverages resources to deliver function-level solutions/improvements; builds internal and external networks; demonstrates courage to ask questions, try new things and provide actionable feedback.
- Continuous improvement: Creates new ways for self and team to be effective; proactively leverages resources where appropriate; early adopter and implementer of technology and a student of the industry.
- Awareness: Leverages personal strengths and manages limitations; exhibits self-authority and resilience; demonstrates confidence and trust in self/strengths to meet challenges; appropriately adapts behavior to different and changing situations.
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Who's Hiring
- サイネオス・ヘルス35
- Syneos Health Commercial Solutions33
- Amgen30
- UniFirst23
- Cintas19
Top Industries Hiring
- Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals16
- Manufacturing11
- Distribution & Wholesale9
- Chemicals & Materials8
- Staffing & Recruiting6
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in key account assistant jobs.
- One to three years of account management, sales support, or customer success experience
- Proficiency in CRM software to manage client records and track account activity
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for client-facing correspondence
- Ability to coordinate across internal teams including sales, logistics, and finance
- Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, communications, or a related field
- Experience preparing sales reports, presentations, or account review documentation
Tips for Your Key Account Assistant Job Search
Tailor your resume to account metrics
Key account assistant roles reward candidates who show measurable client impact. Quantify your contributions with retention rates, order accuracy, or revenue supported rather than listing duties. Hiring managers in this role scan for evidence you can protect and grow existing accounts.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists key account assistant openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Highlight CRM proficiency prominently
Most key account assistant postings require hands-on CRM experience. Name the specific platforms you have used and describe how you used them, such as logging activity, generating client reports, or tracking order pipelines. Vague CRM references rarely pass initial screening.
Target companies with named account tiers
Employers who segment customers into strategic or platinum tiers are most likely to have dedicated key account assistant roles. When researching openings, prioritize organizations in distribution, med-device, or CPG where named-account management is standard practice.
Prepare for scenario questions on client escalations
Interviewers for key account assistant positions commonly ask how you have handled a delayed shipment, a billing dispute, or a client threatening to leave. Prepare two or three specific examples that show calm communication and cross-functional coordination under pressure.
Negotiate by anchoring on account scope
When discussing offers, reference the revenue volume or number of accounts you will support. Candidates who frame their value around the accounts they manage rather than their years of experience tend to negotiate more effectively for key account assistant roles.
Key Account Assistant Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most key account assistants?
The most active employers for key account assistants right now are サイネオス・ヘルス, Syneos Health Commercial Solutions, and Amgen, and the most openings are in California, Texas, and Florida, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand tends to be highest in industries with large named-account programs, including consumer goods, pharmaceuticals, and logistics.
How many key account assistant jobs are remote?
About 79% of key account assistant openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the relationship-driven nature of the role. Functions focused on internal coordination, reporting, and CRM management are more likely to be remote, while positions with direct client visits or on-site account reviews tend to require in-person presence.
How do you become a key account assistant?
Start by building experience in customer-facing roles such as customer service, inside sales, or sales operations. Develop proficiency in a CRM platform and practice generating reports and client summaries. Apply to entry-level account coordinator or account support roles to get direct exposure to named-account processes, then move into key account assistant positions as you demonstrate client retention and coordination skills.
Can you get hired as a key account assistant with little experience?
Yes, employers in this role often hire candidates with limited direct account management experience if you can demonstrate strong organizational skills, client communication ability, and CRM familiarity. Internships in sales support, experience handling client inquiries in retail or hospitality, or administrative roles in B2B environments all transfer well and are worth calling out explicitly in your application.
What does the key account assistant interview process look like?
Most key account assistant interviews run two to three rounds. The first is typically a phone or video screen focused on your background and CRM experience. A second interview with a sales manager or account lead covers scenario-based questions about client escalations, cross-team coordination, and prioritization. Some employers add a short written exercise such as drafting a client summary or account update email.
Where can I find and apply to key account assistant jobs?
You can find and apply to key account assistant jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search for roles that match your experience and location, then apply directly to each listing that fits.
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