Therapeutic Area Manager (TAM), Respiratory/Immunology – Michigan Ecosystem
Genentech
Summary
As a Therapeutic Area Manager (TAM), you will play a pivotal role in delivering innovative healthcare solutions directly to healthcare providers, clinical teams, and health systems within our local ecosystem model. You are empowered to make a meaningful difference in the lives of patients by identifying community-level needs, driving clinical education, and expanding access to life-changing therapies.
Job description
The Opportunity
As a Therapeutic Area Manager (TAM), you will play a pivotal role in delivering innovative healthcare solutions directly to healthcare providers, clinical teams, and health systems within our local ecosystem model. You are empowered to make a meaningful difference in the lives of patients by identifying community-level needs, driving clinical education, and expanding access to life-changing therapies.
- Engage directly with Healthcare Providers (HCPs) and multidisciplinary account teams to communicate role-approved clinical data, on-label disease education, and therapeutic value.
- Navigate and resolve operational barriers to patient care, delivering actionable insights on payer coverage, distribution, acquisition, reimbursement pathways, and patient assistance programs.
- Develop, tailor, and execute local ecosystem business plans that drive clinical demand, advance health equity for diverse and underserved populations, and achieve key organizational milestones.
- Harness digital capabilities and omnichannel tools to deliver personalized, customer-centric interactions across accounts.
- Synthesize and share actionable field insights with cross-functional internal partners to shape regional and national brand strategy.
- Collaborate seamlessly with internal account partners to triage specialized customer needs, ensuring an integrated and unified customer experience.
- Uphold the highest ethical and professional standards, fully adhering to compliance regulations and Genentech Operating Principles.
Who you are
- You hold a Bachelor's degree, at minimum.
- You bring 6+ years of experience in healthcare, pharmaceuticals, or adjacent industries, including direct engagement with patients, HCPs, payers, health systems, or life sciences organizations.
- You possess an established history of coaching, mentoring, and elevating peer performance within a team environment.
- You demonstrate resilience and agility, thriving within dynamic, evolving environments while independently solving complex customer problems.
Preferred
- Previous experience within Immunology or Respiratory.
- Experience working in a sales role with HCPs, ideally representing multiple products and working across a complex specialty clinic or healthcare system environment.
- Prior Account Management experience.
- Deep knowledge of specialty market access, Buy-and-Bill mechanics, Part B/Part D reimbursement dynamics, and specialty pharmacy fulfillment.
- Proven track record of successfully launching high-science portfolios or complex clinical products.
- Ability to rapidly flex and learn new disease states, articulating highly complex clinical data and scientific mechanisms of action to specialist physicians.
- Demonstrated cross-functional life sciences industry experience navigating ecosystem stakeholders such as integrated health systems, hospitals, and clinical networks.
- History of consistently achieving financial and quantitative targets, as well as qualitative goals.
- Proficiency in addressing operational issues related to the delivery of healthcare products, including reimbursement and supply, while ensuring strict compliance with external laws, codes, and company policies.
- Advanced clinical credential (e.g., RN, BSN, Advanced Practice Nurse / APN, PharmD, or an equivalent clinical background).
Location
- The territory will cover Eastern and Central Michigan; it is preferred that candidates live in the Eastern Michigan/Detroit area for consideration.
- No relocation benefits are available for this position.
This is a field-based position. Overnight travel may be required. This position requires significant driving of either a company provided or personal vehicle as well as prolonged periods of sitting, both of which are part of the essential duties and responsibilities of the role. As a result, Genentech, Inc. (Company) from time to time will check your motor vehicle record for purposes of determining your eligibility for driving a Company vehicle or driving any vehicle on Company business.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree, at minimum
- 6+ years of experience in healthcare, pharmaceuticals, or adjacent industries
- Direct engagement with patients, HCPs, payers, health systems, or life sciences organizations
- History of coaching, mentoring, and elevating peer performance within a team environment
- Resilience and agility in dynamic, evolving environments
- Independently solving complex customer problems
Benefits
- Incentive Compensation
- Health Insurance
- Retirement Benefits
Company overview
Genentech, founded in 1976 and now a member of the Roche Group, is widely recognized as the pioneer of the biotechnology industry. The company has been at the forefront of scientific innovation for nearly 50 years, using human genetic information to develop novel medicines for serious and life-threatening diseases. Genentech's transformational discoveries include the first targeted antibody for cancer and the first medicine for primary progressive multiple sclerosis. With over 10,000 employees, the company operates from its South San Francisco headquarters and maintains a strong focus on oncology, immunology, neuroscience, ophthalmology, and infectious diseases. Genentech continues to pursue groundbreaking science while maintaining its startup spirit within the Roche organization, consistently delivering on its promise to improve patients' lives through innovative biopharmaceutical solutions.