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Key Accounts Manager-Jaipur

Posted date Feb. 26, 2026
Contract type Full time
Job ID R-246797
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Why choose AstraZeneca India?

Help push the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines to patients. After 45 years in India, we’re continuing to secure a future where everyone can access affordable, sustainable, innovative healthcare.

The part you play in our business will be challenging, yet rewarding, requiring you to use your resilient, collaborative and diplomatic skillsets to make connections. The majority of your work will be field based, and will require you to be highly-organised, planning your monthly schedule, attending meetings and calls, as well as writing up reports.

Who do we look for?

Calling all tech innovators, ownership takers, challenge seekers and proactive collaborators. At AstraZeneca, breakthroughs born in the lab become transformative medicine for the world's most complex diseases. We empower people like you to push the boundaries of science, challenge convention, and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. You'll embrace differences and take bold actions to drive the change needed to meet global healthcare and sustainability challenges.

Here, diverse minds and bold disruptors can meaningfully impact the future of healthcare using cutting-edge technology. Whether you join us in Bengaluru or Chennai, you can make a tangible impact within a global biopharmaceutical company that invests in your future. Join a talented global team that's powering AstraZeneca to better serve patients every day.

Success Profile

Ready to make an impact in your career? If you're passionate, growth-orientated and a true team player, we'll help you succeed. Here are some of the skills and capabilities we look for.

Tech innovators

Make a greater impact through our digitally enabled enterprise. Use your skills in data and technology to transform and optimise our operations, helping us deliver meaningful work that changes lives.

Ownership takers

If you're a self-aware self-starter who craves autonomy, AstraZeneca provides the perfect environment to take ownership and grow. Here, you'll feel empowered to lead and reach excellence at every level — with unrivalled support when you need it.

Challenge seekers

Adapting and advancing our progress means constantly challenging the status quo. In this dynamic environment where everything we do has urgency and focus, you'll have the ability to show up, speak up and confidently take smart risks.

Proactive collaborators

Your unique perspectives make our ambitions and capabilities possible. Our culture of sharing ideas, learning and improving together helps us consistently set the bar higher. As a proactive collaborator, you'll seek out ways to bring people together to achieve their best.

Responsibilities

Job ID R-246797 Date posted 02/26/2026

About AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of prescription medicines for some of the most serious diseases worldwide. But we’re more than one of the foremost pharmaceutical companies internationally.

Introduction to role:

Are you ready to turn scientific evidence into real-world impact and develop the local patient journey within respiratory and immune system care? In this role, you will bring science, strategy, and relationships together to ensure appropriate patients receive the right treatment at the right time.

As Key Accounts Manager in Jaipur, you will develop local account plans, build deep partnerships with healthcare professionals and collaborators, and elevate knowledge across multidisciplinary teams. Your work will drive responsible adoption of our therapies, strengthen partner confidence, and deliver balanced growth.

You will thrive in a fast-moving, collaborative setting where scientific conversations and commercial execution go hand in hand. How will you use your network and insight to unlock access and accelerate evidence-based change?

Accountabilities:

  • Account Strategy and Planning: Identify local opportunities to improve the way the division dedicated to research and development’s products at AZ are positioned. Partner with the Sales Manager to develop and apply community-focused strategies and operational plans that reach desired outcomes and elevate product presence.

  • Initiate discussions with clinical practitioners participating in research and innovation on authorized uses and therapeutic outcomes. Discuss safety considerations and treatment approaches to enhance on-label prescribing for appropriate patients. Build and sustain long-term, cooperative relationships with partners.

  • Insight Sharing: Gain collaborator insights and share them within AZ to improve product creation, promotional strategies, and revenue generation activities, growing impact across the organization.

  • Capability Building within the Healthcare Network: Increase understanding of AZ’s exploration and inventive efforts value proposition and labeled indications among multidisciplinary groups and decision-making teams interested parties. Use varied communication methods to conduct science-based discussions, arrange multidisciplinary workshops, and coordinate educational sessions including clinical advocates and key opinion leaders. Actively support R&I nurses through relevant training.

  • Performance and Budget Accountability: Drive sales performance, ensuring forecasts meet or go above and beyond while leading all aspects of allocated budgets. Promote the benefits associated with AZ’s R&I brands by delivering messages that maintain fair balance alongside the right blend of promotional elements. Ensure the efficient use of products according to national and local guidelines and product licenses.

  • Compliance and Training: Complete all required training, including product examinations. Follow external regulations and enforce internal policies that include the AZ Code of Ethics, guidelines related to cross-border external relations, and Privacy Policy and Standards. Pay particular attention when interacting with Patient Groups.

Essential Skills/Experience:

  • Shown ability to develop account strategies and plans, working in conjunction with a Sales Manager to build local strategies and business plans that meet targets.

  • Experience improving the positioning of R&I products at a local level through opportunity identification and targeted initiatives.

  • Strong capability to engage R&I HCPs in science-based dialogue on approved indications, efficacy and safety profiles, and treatment protocols to support on-label prescribing.

  • Track record of establishing and maintaining long-term collaborative relationships with interested parties and sharing their points of view to advise product innovation, market outreach, and commercial operations.

  • Experience building knowledge across multiple areas and decision-making groups through varied communication approaches. These approaches include prioritizing multidisciplinary workshops, coordinating speaker programs with physician advocates and KOLs, and supporting nurse training.

  • Proven success driving sales performance, meeting or exceeding forecasts, leading assigned budgets, and promoting brands using fair balance messages and the appropriate mix of promotional tools.

  • Ability to ensure products are efficiently used following country-specific and local standards along with the product license.

  • Proven dedication to completing required training and product evaluations. Observes applicable laws and company policies, such as ethical guidelines found within the Arizona Compliance Code, Global External Interactions guidelines, and Privacy frameworks.

Desirable Skills/Experience:

  • Established relationships with R&I HCPs and partners across Jaipur and the surrounding region.

  • Experience facilitating cross-functional collaboration and circulating collaborator insights to strengthen product development, marketing, and sales activities.

  • Familiarity with MDT and DMU dynamics, tailoring communication to diverse clinician and decision-maker audiences.

  • Experience coordinating physician advocate and KOL speaker programs and delivering multidisciplinary workshops.

  • Hands-on support of nurse education in respiratory and immunology pathways.

When we bring together diverse groups convened in a common setting, we unleash high-reaching thinking with the power to encourage the creation of life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and high-reaching world.

Why AstraZeneca:

Here, your work supports the full patient journey—from awareness and prevention to better diagnosis and real-world adoption—so your impact is felt where it matters most. You will operate at the intersection of science and business, collaborating across functions to turn evidence into practice at pace. Our culture brings together courageous thinking and practical execution, with unexpected teams in the same room to spark new ideas and move them into the clinic. We value persistence alongside ambition, and we equip you with pioneering science, strong partnerships, and the support to influence change across the healthcare ecosystem.

So, what’s next?

  • Are you already imagining yourself joining our team? Good, because we can’t wait to hear from you.

  • Are you ready to bring new ideas and fresh thinking to the table? Brilliant! We have one seat available, and we hope it’s yours.

Where can I find out more?

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Date Posted

26-Feb-2026

Closing Date

02-Mar-2026

AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity.  We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills.  We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.  We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics.  We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.

Reasons to Join

Thomas Mathisen

There are many things I enjoy when working at AstraZeneca, mainly the Speak up culture, the great colleagues that are in my teams, the great products that AstraZeneca provides to our patients and the challenging conversations I have around our medicines.

Sales Representative Oslo, Norway

There are many things I enjoy when working at AstraZeneca, mainly the Speak up culture, the great colleagues that are in my teams, the great products that AstraZeneca provides to our patients and the challenging conversations I have around our medicines.

Christine Recchio

Working at AstraZeneca has impacted my life in such a positive way. I now have an improved work-life balance through creating my own schedule and time management, I feel a balance that I didn’t have before.

Sales Representative California, United States

Working at AstraZeneca has impacted my life in such a positive way. I now have an improved work-life balance through creating my own schedule and time management, I feel a balance that I didn’t have before.

Stephanie Ling

There are a lot of reasons why I enjoy working in AstraZeneca, my colleagues being one of them. My team members and the managers have provided a great deal of guidance in helping me to be more confident in my daily work.

Sales Representative Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

There are a lot of reasons why I enjoy working in AstraZeneca, my colleagues being one of them. My team members and the managers have provided a great deal of guidance in helping me to be more confident in my daily work.

What we offer

We're driven by our shared values of serving people, society and the planet. Our people make this possible, which is why we prioritise diversity, safety, empowerment and collaboration. Discover what a career at AstraZeneca could mean for you.

Lifelong learning

Our development opportunities are second to none. You'll have the chance to grow your abilities, skills and knowledge constantly as you accelerate your career. From leadership projects and constructive coaching to overseas talent exchanges and global collaboration programmes, you'll never stand still.

Autonomy and reward

Experience the power of shaping your career how you want to. We are a high-performing learning organisation with autonomy over how we learn. Make big decisions, learn from your mistakes and continue growing — with performance-based rewards as part of the package.

Health and wellbeing

An energised work environment is only possible when our people have a healthy work-life balance and are supported for their individual needs. That's why we have a dedicated team to ensure your physical, financial and psychological wellbeing is a top priority.

Inclusion and diversity

Diversity and inclusion are embedded in everything we do. We're at our best and most creative when drawing on our different views, experiences and strengths. That's why we're committed to creating a workplace where everyone can thrive in a culture of respect, collaboration and innovation.

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