Respiratory and PD Hospital Executive

“I account manage 13 hospital trusts, which means I deal with 22 hospitals in total. My main role is to market and promote our respiratory and Parkinson’s Disease products. I've also helped to launch a new product and the main priority has been looking at maximising the use of our portfolio within the hospitals.

My role involves developing a rapport with the key healthcare professionals who become advocates of our products and to create new prescribing opportunities with other healthcare professionals. I have one to one meetings with them or presentations detailing the clinical data of our products to groups from 3 to 33+. Sometimes I work in the evening, to support the speakers that I have sourced for "speaker meetings".

I have also special project work which I am developing. This can take the form of an interest group, which is a way for the healthcare professionals in respiratory/PD to share best practice and an opportunity for them to have protected time to develop protocols or for educational needs. The satisfaction for working for Boehringer is that the company allows you to use your initiative to get business; it's not a rigid structured approach.

Boehringer is a good company to work for as it offers support and really encourages personal development. My aim is to specialise in respiratory medicine, so I recently completed a Diploma, paid for by Boehringer. There's also an excellent company car system, so at least when I'm stuck in a traffic jam on the M1, it's more bearable!

I really can't see myself wanting to work for another pharmaceutical company, as Boehringer is quite special - you're never a just a territory number, you're always a person.”