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Business Account Executive - Chicago

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals alnylam.com Open · verified Sep 17, 2026
Cambridge Mid-level Account Executive

At a glance

Mid-level Account Executive role at Alnylam Pharmaceuticals. Cambridge · $144,500–$195,500 base.

SalaryStated by Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
$144,500 – $195,500
Base salary for this role, in USD per year, as published in the posting.
RoleAccount Executive
SeniorityMid-level
LocationCambridge
Base pay$144,500–$195,500
Role brief

Growth Roles summary, based on the employer's posting.

What you'll do

  • Build territory and account plans that identify patients, expand disease awareness, and grow brand recognition
  • Work with academic and community healthcare professionals, office staff, and key accounts across assigned sites of care
  • Coordinate patient services, reimbursement, and other commercial partners so medication access and administration logistics are ready
  • Run speaker programs, sponsorships, displays, and exhibits across physician offices, infusion centers, and academic institutions
  • Share territory trends, prescriber views, and competitive activity with the Regional Business Director

What you bring

  • A bachelor’s degree is required for this role
  • At least five years of successful work in biotech, specialty pharmaceuticals, or medical devices
  • You bring strong business analytics, data analysis, communication, listening, and compliant case-management skills
  • You understand site-of-care identification, development, and education, plus the relevant biotech and pharmaceutical regulations
  • You hold a valid driver’s license and can work with complex territory-level business planning

Who this fits

This role suits a field-based commercial professional who can build physician and account relationships while coordinating several internal and external stakeholders. Overnight travel is required, including trips to Boston, congresses, and broad geographic territories. You must live in the assigned territory and hold a valid driver’s license.】【。 } **Note:** The listing names the role location as Chicago in the title but gives Cambridge, United States as the location field.

From the employer

Overview

We are looking for an experienced and talented Business Account Executive (BAE) to commercially represent GIVLAARI® and OXLUMO® in the United States and have a significant impact on the lives of AHP patients. AHP’s represent a sub-group of Porphyrias, characterized by the occurrence of neuro-visceral attacks with or without cutaneous manifestations. AHP’s include four disorders: acute intermittent porphyria (the most common), variegate porphyria, hereditary coproporphyria, and a genetic deficit of delta-aminolaevulinic acid dehydratase. PH1 is a rare, life-threatening disease that can cause serious damage to kidneys and progressively to other organs. PH1 is a little-known condition and patients often spend years undiagnosed and misdiagnosed.

The BAE will be principally responsible for driving physician and patient identification, disease awareness, overall market development, and brand awareness within their ascribed territory. The BAE will be responsible for achieving territory targets and other business objectives through account and customer strategies, while also partnering & collaborating very closely with internal and external stakeholders to effectively manage all aspects of the regional business. The achievement of targets will be based in Alnylam’s values: our commitment to people, sense of urgency, passion for excellence, innovation & discovery, and open culture as well as our unwavering commitment to integrity.

The BAE will report to the Regional Business Director (RBD) for their respective region.

Key Responsibilities

  • Drive patient identification through appropriate HCP driven strategies including market development, increase brand awareness through building and executing a territory strategy/account plan; continuously assess opportunities within markets and accounts to launch successfully.
  • Effectively prioritize and manage time, activities, and resources in order to optimize access to academic and community HCPs.
  • Build and maintain relationships with HCPs and office staff by maximizing their time through planning, leveraging insights, and conducting post-call analysis refining tactics based on opportunities.
  • Proactively build effective working relationships with internal/external stakeholders; drive agreement/decisions from multiple stakeholders; demonstrated high level of emotional intelligence adapting communication based on different stakeholders.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders across all commercial departments including; patient services, field reimbursement, and others to ensure access at site of care and that logistics are in place to administer medications.
  • Collaborate with key accounts and physicians to build individual account plans to drive patient identification through market development and physician education; achieve sales goals, and maintain relationships in order to maximize sales results.
  • Execute speaker programs, local sponsorships, displays and exhibits, both in and out of office across multiple account types: academic institutions, physician offices, infusion centers, and alternate site locations.
  • Routinely report territory-level market dynamics and trends, including prescriber opinion and competitive activity to RBD as required.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree required
  • 5+ years of demonstrated success in biotech, specialty pharmaceuticals, or medical devices.
  • Experience, success and relationships in Rare Disease, Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Neurology, Hematology/Oncology, pediatric and adult Nephrology and/or Urology are preferred but not required.
  • Buy & Bill understanding and experience working with HUB patient services preferred but not required.
  • Thorough understanding of site of care identification, development and education.
  • Strong examples of applied entrepreneurial mindset, business analytics and data analysis required.
  • Experience supporting biologic therapy administered by designated HCPs preferred.
  • Experience driving, leading and delivering upon territory-level cross functional business planning.
  • Must be familiar with relevant legal and regulatory environment in biotech/pharmaceutical industry.
  • Strong communication and listening skills.
  • Effective at managing complex individualized cases in a compliant manner.
  • Overnight travel required including travel to Boston, congresses and large geographical territories
  • Candidates must have a valid driver's license.
  • Must live in the assigned territory.

U.S. Pay Range

$144,500.00 - $195,500.00

The pay range reflects the full-time base salary range we expect to pay for this role at the time of posting. Base pay will be determined based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience, skills, and education. This role is eligible for an annual short-term incentive award (e.g., bonus or sales incentive) and an annual long-term incentive award (e.g., equity).

Alnylam’s robust Total Rewards package is designed to support your overall health and well-being. We offer comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, a lifestyle reimbursement program, flexible spending and health savings accounts and a 401(k)with a generous company match. Eligible employees enjoy paid time off, wellness days, holidays, and two company-wide recharge breaks. We also offer generous family resources and leave. Our commitment to your well-being reflects our belief that caring for our people fuels the impact we create together.

Learn more about these and additional benefits offered by Alnylam by visiting the Benefits section of the Careers website: https://www.alnylam.com/careers

About Alnylam

We are the leader in RNAi therapeutics – a revolutionary approach with the potential to transform the lives of people with rare and common diseases. Built on Nobel Prize-winning science, Alnylam has delivered the breakthroughs that made RNAi therapeutics possible and are just at the beginning of what’s possible. Our deep pipeline, late-stage programs, and bold vision reflect our core values: fierce innovation, passion for excellence, purposeful urgency, open culture and commitment to people. We're proud to be a globally recognized top employer, where an authentic, inclusive culture and breakthrough thinking fuel one another.

At Alnylam, we commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equal employment opportunity. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their sex, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, religion, creed, physical or mental disability, pregnancy status or related conditions, genetic information, veteran or military status, marital or familial status, political affiliation, age, or any other factor protected by federal, state, or local law. Alnylam is an E-Verify Employer.

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