Merck KGaA Posted August 15, 2026

Key Account Executive (Cardiovascular Metabolism Care)

Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia FULL_TIME
Sales Cardiovascular / CVRM

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About this opportunity

Your Role

Builds and maintains long-term external relationships with a defined set of customers, increasing revenue spent per customer, identifying, developing and closing new sales opportunities. Creates demand for the organization's products and services at the customer.

What You Do

Serve as the primary liaison for key chain pharmacies and key hospital accounts involved in cardiovascular metabolism product portfolios.

Develop and execute Key Account Business Plans that align customer priorities (e.g., patient management/education programs, screening programs) with company objectives.

Build long-term strategic partnerships through joint business planning, focusing on patient care solutions.

Achieve and exceed sales and growth targets for the assigned therapeutic portfolio across key accounts.

Negotiate contract terms, listing agreements, and value-added initiatives that support category expansion in chronic care areas.

Drive product performance visibility at retail and institutional levels through data analysis and execution excellence.

Partner with Marketing, Medical, and Supply Chain to ensure timely execution of campaigns, CME programs, and educational initiatives

Collaborate with Field Force and KAM teams to translate national brand strategy into localized account tactics.

Ensure alignment with Market Access, Regulatory and Compliance teams for pricing, product availability, and compliance with promotional guidelines.

Identify and implement value-added services with chain pharmacies and/or key hospitals/key institutions

Train and engage pharmacists on disease awareness, patient counselling, and adherence programs to improve therapeutic outcomes.

Foster multi-brand synergy within accounts, cross-leveraging cardiovascular and metabolism portfolios for stronger account positioning.

Monitor market trends, competitor activities, and emerging healthcare models in chronic disease management.

Provide insightful business analytics to management, covering account performance, ROI of activities, and opportunity mapping.

Track program outcomes (e.g., number of screenings, conversion to prescriptions) to demonstrate value creation.

Who You Are

Tertiary level with science, paramedic, business or marketing background.

3- 5 years of Pharma sales experience.

Strong understanding of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, treatment guidelines, and patient management pathways.

Proven ability to manage key pharmacy and institutional accounts, negotiate contracts, and lead cross-functional collaborations.

Skilled in interpreting sales data, market share, and pharmacy sell-out trends to drive evidence-based decisions.

Focused on partnership value, delivering win–win outcomes for both company and customer.

Ability to balance commercial terms with strategic growth levers.

Strong interpersonal skills to engage pharmacists, procurement leads, and healthcare professionals.

Job details

Seniority
Not listed
Function
Sales
Therapeutic area
Cardiovascular / CVRM
Location
Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia
Employment type
FULL_TIME

How this role compares

Computed from every other active Sales role in our database, not just this employer's listings.

We currently track 2495 comparable Sales roles across 149 biopharma companies.

2495Comparable roles tracked
2391Currently active
149Companies hiring similar roles
69Countries represented

Salary context

652 of 2495 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)

Peers share this role's job function. This posting doesn't list a seniority level, so peers aren't narrowed by seniority either -- the range below may span more levels than usual.

This roleSubject Not listed on this posting
Lowest disclosed · Patient Coordinator 1 (PSC) · Novartis $37,200/yr – $69,200/yr
Highest disclosed · Vice President, Head of Oncology Sales · Novartis $274,400/yr – $509,600/yr
Peer group range $53,200 – $392,000 (median $135,500)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 2495 comparable roles

United States1320
China385
India85
Japan55
Taiwan55
Germany54

+ 63 more countries

Seniority mix

977 of 2495 peers have a known seniority level

Manager449
Senior429
Director67
Associate Director12
Intern/Fellow/Postdoc8
Associate7
Executive/VP4
Senior Director1

Therapeutic area mix

665 of 2495 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Oncology181
Cardiovascular / CVRM139
Neuroscience128
Dermatology & Aesthetics45
Vaccines & Infectious Disease44
Respiratory39
Immunology33
Rare Disease30
Gastroenterology22
Ophthalmology4

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How we calculate "similar"

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Every comparison starts from the same 100-point budget: 25 for working in the same function, 40 for the same therapeutic area, 20 for the same or adjacent seniority, 15 for the same country. A dimension we can't confirm on both sides contributes nothing, never a guess, never a free pass.

80%
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Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
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Unmatched or unknown dimensions score exactly the same: 0 points, never a partial guess. A role we know almost nothing about beyond its function bottoms out at 25%; it never inflates to 100% just because there's little to compare against. Seniority uses a defined ladder (Associate → Manager → Associate Director → Senior → Principal → Director → Senior Director → Executive/VP) so "Director" and "Senior Director" count as adjacent, but "Director" and "Executive/VP" do not.