Commercial Account Manager

At Argenta, we’re more than a company — we’re a global team, dedicated to healthier animals. We believe that when their lives are made better, we're all the better for it.

Founded in 2006, we support companies big and small to develop and manufacture health products for pets and livestock. Our trusted, innovative solutions and services cover every stage of the process, from molecule to market.

We’re in a unique position. We are the world’s only combined contract research and contract development and manufacturing organization (CRO/CDMO) dedicated to animal health.

Our uniqueness means:

We are ambitious, growing and building a ‘one team’ culture, guided by our values.

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  • We are team players;
  
  
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  • We are innovators.
  
  
  
  

We value diversity, as a global company, we get the richness of working with different people in different places whether it be location, stages of their career, their development, their role. We believe that when everyone works together and puts their best “paw” forward we will make the lives of the animals we care for, better.

With bases in New Zealand, the US, the UK and Europe, our 900+ colleagues are driven by our partnership approach and purpose: Healthy Animals. Let’s Make It Happen, Together.

TEAM PLAYERS who want to DO great work and find INNOVATIVE ways to make animals lives better through our CUSTOMER CENTRIC efforts should apply. 

Argenta is currently looking to fill the role of Commercial Account Manager at our Shawnee, KS location. This position manages commercial accounts, post market activities and new product launches as assigned and acts as key point of contact.  Primary responsibilities include contract management, project oversight, change management, customer orders maintenance, and commercial quotations to support customer needs.  Does so through effective cross-functional collaboration of both internal and external stakeholders respectively.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensures that project delivery methodologies, project management processes/principles and project management tools are utilized to achieve project goals. Has ownership in site project management business processes and works with the customer relationship leader to improve these processes.  Initiates and executes change controls using the quality management system.


• Responsible for managing the routine operational business relationship with customers.


• Maintains thorough knowledge and understanding of customer contractual requirements to ensure compliance and support effective operational execution.


• Oversee multiple, concurrent post market approval (PMA) / life cycle changes and projects impacting products in scope through the quality system change control process ensuring that changes are implemented compliantly and to avoid supply risks. 


• Compiles commercial quotations to support customer and regulatory required tasks.


• Responsible for routine project management of product maintenance activity or post-commercial approval change projects, including key life cycle projects and business excellence initiatives as assigned.


• Supports the routine completion of new business proposals accurately and on time by providing project management and technical leadership to populate standardized templates containing new opportunity scope, costs, and timelines.  This includes periodically leading technical calls with the customer relationship team and customer to align on new business opportunity scope and address open questions pertinent to completing the proposal.

Requirements

• Requires a bachelor’s degree related to a science or engineering field, business management, project management, or supply chain management.


• 4+ years’ experience working in regulated pharmaceutical manufacturing industry in a science or engineering field, supply chain or project management role.


• The ideal candidate has obtained minimally a Certified Associate Project Manager (CAPM) certification, or equivalent, from a recognized institute focused on Project Management methodologies


• Experience working in or managing a pharmaceutical laboratory, formulations, validation, research and development or production/packaging environment is beneficial in this role.


• Operating knowledge of cGMPs and regulatory requirements applicable to the domestic and global pharmaceutical manufacturing industry.


• Fundamental understanding of pharmaceutical manufacturing technologies and processes including for parenteral, oral solid dosage, soft chew, and non-sterile liquid dosage forms strongly preferred.

Argenta has strongly embedded company values which is key to who we are and how we deliver. We offer an opportunity to work for a successful and rapidly expanding global business where your input will be valued.  At Argenta we are a hard-working group who really enjoy the people we work with each day. That is why we support our people through a strong culture, great benefits, and growth opportunities.

Argenta is an equal-opportunity employer

To find out more about Argenta, click here: www.argentaglobal.com