BioPharma with a Family Feel: This is Accord

By Chrys Kokino, President, Accord BioPharma

Accord BioPharma wants to be recognized as a company that does it right. The right approach, the right improvements, the right medicines delivered in the right way at the right time. It’s the foundation of who we are. It’s our culture. And it’s empowering us to build a team that’s poised to positively impact the full patient experience. You might think it would be difficult to create and enact such an ethos in today’s space—but really, it’s been a part of who we are since the formation of our parent company, Intas Pharmaceuticals.

Accord BioPharma is built to feel like a family, and this has been woven into our company culture. As we problem solve together, we leverage a heritage of compassion and collaboration. We know that’s not something you hear a lot in the corporate world, and we’re extremely proud—and fiercely protective—of that.

Our people make the difference; our people are our difference. I have hand-picked our senior leaders according to the same values on which we founded Accord BioPharma, and that approach trickles down throughout the team. Often, larger pharmaceutical companies look at their hierarchy in terms of titles rather than roles; we do just the opposite. We want to fill our team with people whose skills complement our own, whose experience matches our current and future needs. It might mean more in-depth evaluation of candidates, but that’s the way we want it. We’re always looking beyond the surface, to help us develop therapies that go beyond biology.

Many pharma companies today could only dream of building their culture from scratch, but with a team of seasoned professionals getting a fresh start, that’s exactly what we’ve done. We’ve taken lessons learned over the course of our careers—and values like humility, empathy, trust, and creativity—and baked them into our core. The result is that familial environment and a high degree of like-mindedness, not in the sense that we’re always going to agree, but in that we’re always aligned in working toward improved experiences and outcomes for patients.

It's a mindset you can find across the organization, where we encourage all our team members to contribute their ideas and perspectives. At Accord BioPharma, everyone’s voice matters. You won’t find people shirking responsibilities or leaving problems for “leadership” to figure out. We’re thinking through and solving challenges together. We always want to make informed business decisions, and we really believe the best way to do that is to incorporate everyone’s viewpoint. Our entrepreneurial spirit empowers this ability to both think deeply and activate quickly.

We feel we have tremendous potential due to possessing this entrepreneurial spirit while belonging to a larger parent company like Intas that’s been in the market for some time providing patient-centric solutions. We have the flexibility to adapt to an ever-evolving healthcare landscape, free of the barriers and politics you might find at a larger company. And, we have the backing to activate on the insights we glean, to manufacture medicines in-house and bring them to market.

Our culture is what makes Accord BioPharma such a great place to work. And it’s what makes our work so great. We offer prospective talent the opportunity to get in on the “ground floor” of work that is going to tangibly change lives. As we come together to improve the full patient experience, to enhance adherence, to manufacture new medicines, to address access and affordability, our people are leading the way. And we’re doing it the right way.

We invite you to come on this journey with us by following us here on LinkedIn and engaging in the conversation! We look forward to connecting.