Renal Therapy Specialist PD - West Midland & Wales

Vantive: A New Company Built On Our Legacy

Baxter is on a journey to separate our ~$5B Kidney Care segment into a standalone company. Vantive* will build on our nearly 70-year legacy in acute therapies and home and in-center dialysis to provide best-in-class care to the people we serve. We believe Vantive will not only build our leadership in the kidney care space, it will also offer meaningful work to those who join us.

At Vantive, you will become part of a community of people who are focused, courageous and don’t settle for the mediocre. Each of us are driven to help improve patients’ lives worldwide. Join us as we revolutionize kidney care and other vital organ support.

*Completion of the proposed separation of Kidney Care from Baxter into a standalone company (to be named Vantive) remains subject to the satisfaction of customary conditions.

The role

As a champion for the preferred patient pathway, you will successfully promote this to healthcare professionals to ensure all dialysis patients are able to access the right therapy at the right time in the right place according to their individual needs and circumstances. Working together with healthcare professionals within Renal Units with a focus on peritoneal dialysis, you will drive clinical practice efficiencies and effectiveness, along with the appropriate use of therapies/products in line with ABPI Code of Practice.

What you'll be doling

• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with key external stakeholders (e.g. clinical professionals, procurement teams etc) whilst driving quality improvement opportunities for the patient & hospital.
• Delivering clinical messaging about the renal therapies, key differentiators, and services effectively through an evidence-based approach.
• Achieve sales targets and qualitative business objectives for the assigned therapy as defined by the Commercial team and aligned with the territory Account Manager.
• Support the marketing team with the rollout of new product launches, key marketing campaigns & activities, by delivering effective clinical messaging and provide customer feedback for continuous improvement
• Lead and facilitate peer-to-peer networking opportunities across the territory for renal staff to encourage best in class evidence-based practice.
• Maintain up-to-date customer records through effective and timely use of our Customer Relationship Management Tool.
• Be the subject matter expert by maintaining continuous professional development & knowledge of the therapy environment, products, therapies and their application.
• Collaborate with internal teams (e.g. Marketing, Medical Affairs) to identify and develop Key Opinion Leaders in the renal therapy areas both regionally and nationally.
• Deliver internal training activities as subject matter experts to drive clinical excellence amongst the renal team (e.g. sales, customer services).

What you'll bring

Qualifications   

• Recognised nursing qualification at degree level or equivalent
• Hold professional nursing registration within the operating country
• ABPI certification or working towards  

Skills

• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Strong influencing skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent collaboration skills
• Good problem solving skills
• Good attention to detail
• Highly confident and clinically credible
• Good commercial awareness and business acumen

Experience

• Successful experience of delivering presentations to various audiences (e.g. clinical/functional teams)
• Proven experience in achieving business/operational targets
• Successful experience in implementing change management
• Demonstrable experience in driving continuous improvement in action would be advantageous
• Previous experience in using data systems/customer relationship management systems
• Successful experience in developing strong relationships with clinicians and key hospital stakeholders
• Successful experience of training health care professionals and patients

Knowledge

• Good knowledge of clinical therapies, ideally in a peritoneal dialysis setting
• Good practice knowledge and principles of delivering clinical education

Job Requirements

• Travel mainly across the territory of West Midlands and Wales with occasionally travelling outside this geographical area
• Overnight stays on occasion

Reasonable Accommodations

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