Therapeutic Account Manager (TAM) - Rare Cholestatic Liver Diseases
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Mirum Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to transforming the treatment of rare diseases. They are seeking a Therapeutic Account Manager (TAM) with 5+ years of progressive sales experience in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry.
Position Summary
The Therapeutic Account Manager (TAM) is responsible for delivering strong, sustainable business performance and meaningful patient impact across an assigned territory. This role focuses on rare cholestatic liver diseases and Mirum’s Liver portfolio. The ideal candidate is a clinically credible, insight-led partner who engages healthcare professionals as a peer, challenges clinical inertia, and influences change across complex accounts. The TAM collaborates closely with the Regional Business Director and cross-functional partners to connect customer needs, patient journeys, referral pathways, access dynamics, and business opportunities.
Job Functions & Responsibilities
Territory Strategy & Business Performance
- Develop and execute a focused territory business plan aligned with national, zone, and regional priorities, including clear objectives, customer priorities, resource allocation, and measures of success.
- Use performance data, customer insights, market intelligence, access dynamics, and competitive trends to identify opportunities, anticipate barriers, and make timely adjustments to territory strategy and execution.
- Deliver territory business objectives through disciplined prioritization, high-quality customer engagement, effective resource stewardship, and accountability for behaviors and results.
- Maintain accurate and timely customer records, forecasts, expense reporting, administrative documentation, and business updates.
Strategic Account Management & Network Development
- Identify, prioritize, and develop high-opportunity accounts, health systems, centers of excellence, and referral networks across pediatric and adult hepatology and gastroenterology.
- Create and execute customized account plans reflecting local patient journeys, key stakeholders, clinical decision-making, referral patterns, access considerations, customer needs, and competitive realities.
- Build trusted relationships with physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, pharmacists, office staff, and other members of the care team.
- Map influence and decision-making within complex accounts, establish clear objectives, and secure appropriate next steps.
- Coordinate compliant account actions across Mirum field partners, clarify ownership, and maintain momentum against agreed priorities.
Clinical Aptitude & Customer Engagement
- Develop and maintain deep knowledge of rare cholestatic liver disease, diagnostic pathways, mechanisms of action, clinical data, product profiles, approved uses, safety information, patient support pathways, access and reimbursement, and the evolving competitive landscape.
- Communicate complex scientific and clinical information clearly, accurately, and credibly, tailoring discussions to the knowledge, needs, and priorities of each healthcare professional and account.
- Engage healthcare professionals as a clinically credible peer by asking insightful questions, listening actively, uncovering unmet needs, and connecting relevant evidence and resources.
- Execute approved promotional programs, resources, and customer engagements with consistency, clinical relevance, sound judgment, and full adherence to company policies and regulatory requirements.
Influence & Impact
- Help customers recognize gaps in disease awareness, patient identification, referral, treatment consideration, and ongoing support.
- Use high emotional intelligence, curiosity, credibility, and thoughtful questioning to build trust with skeptical or change-resistant healthcare professionals.
- Influence multiple stakeholders without authority, navigate resistance constructively, and balance persistence with judgment, empathy, and respect.
Customer, Patient & Caregiver Impact
- Keep patients and caregivers at the center of territory and account decisions, understanding the journey from disease recognition through treatment initiation and persistence.
- Support a customer experience grounded in trust, empathy, responsiveness, urgency, and reliable follow-through.
- Collaborate compliantly with Market Access and Patient Services partners to help care teams understand available resources and navigate barriers.
- Identify recurring customer, access, and patient-support barriers; elevate them objectively and promptly; and partner with internal teams to improve execution and support.
Cross-Functional Collaboration & Field Insights
- Build productive partnerships with Medical Affairs, Market Access, Patient Services, Marketing, Commercial Training and Effectiveness, Operations, Analytics, and Advocacy.
- Work seamlessly across field roles to coordinate account strategy, align priorities, clarify responsibilities, and ensure consistent follow-through.
- Capture and communicate timely, objective, and actionable field insights to inform strategy, messaging, training, resource development, customer experience, and execution priorities.
- Contribute actively to business reviews, training programs, team meetings, launch readiness, and cross-functional initiatives.
Entrepreneurial Drive, Resilience & Culture
- Operate with high ownership, self-motivation, resourcefulness, and initiative in an unstructured, rapidly evolving rare disease environment.
- Create engagement opportunities in underdeveloped accounts, test new approaches, learn quickly, and translate insights into action.
- Maintain sustained drive, discipline, and performance through pressure, uncertainty, obstacles, delays, and discouragement.
- Demonstrate curiosity, coachability, and a commitment to continuous learning.
- Model Mirum’s values and ethical conduct, compliance, transparency, inclusion, and respect in every interaction.
Qualifications
Education/Experience
- A Bachelor’s degree is required; an advanced degree is preferred.
- 5+ years of progressive sales experience in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry.
- Demonstrated track record of consistently delivering business results in a complex specialty, rare disease, orphan drug, or high-science market.
- Rare disease experience is highly preferred; experience in hepatology, gastroenterology, pediatric specialty care, or another complex specialty market is highly desirable.
- Strong clinical aptitude and demonstrated ability to learn, retain, and communicate complex disease-state, diagnostic, mechanism-of-action, clinical-data, and product information.
- Experience with account-based selling across health systems, centers of excellence, multidisciplinary care teams, referral networks, and influential healthcare professionals.
- Demonstrated ability to use insight-led or challenger-style selling to constructively challenge the status quo, influence behavior, and advance customer decision-making.
- Working knowledge of access and reimbursement dynamics, patient support pathways, and the role of patient services in rare disease markets.
- Strong business acumen and ability to interpret performance data, identify insights, develop territory and account strategies, and translate plans into consistent field execution.
- Exceptional interpersonal skills, emotional intelligence, communication, presentation, judgment, and ability to build trust with diverse and highly sophisticated customers.
- Proven self-motivation, resourcefulness, resilience, organization, and ability to prioritize and perform independently in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.
- Demonstrated success partnering cross-functionally with Medical Affairs, Market Access, Patient Services, Marketing, Commercial Training and Effectiveness, Operations, and Analytics.
- Commitment to ethical conduct, compliance, and approved promotional practices, with sound judgment in complex customer and patient-related situations.
- Valid driver’s license and ability to travel up to 70%, including frequent overnight travel and occasional weekend commitments.
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Mirum Pharmaceuticals
View Company ProfileMirum Pharmaceuticals (operating at mirumpharma.com) is a biopharmaceutical company engineered for developing and delivering treatments for rare diseases. Founded in Not specified by Chris Peetz and Eric Bjerkholt and headquartered in Not specified, Mirum Pharmaceuticals focuses on conditions where the urgency and sustained commitment are required. Under the hood, the company conducts clinical trials to investigate potential treatments for rare diseases. This allows patients and families affected by rare diseases to access high-impact medicines. Backed by up to $210 million funding arrangement with Oberland Capital.
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