Specialty Representative/Senior Specialty Representative - Primary Care - Albuquerque, NM
About the Role
Join Amgen’s mission to serve patients living with serious illnesses. As a Specialty Representative or Senior Specialty Representative, you will act as the primary customer contact, promoting Amgen’s products—specifically Repatha—within primary care settings across New Mexico (excluding Las Cruces). This role requires frequent travel within the territory and the ability to drive and/or fly. Relocation is not offered, so candidates should ideally live in Albuquerque or within a reasonable daily commuting distance.
Amgen focuses on four therapeutic areas—Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease—and is advancing a broad pipeline of medicines to treat cancer, heart disease, inflammatory conditions, rare diseases, and obesity-related conditions. This role offers the opportunity to make a lasting impact on patients' lives while growing your career in a collaborative, innovative, and science-driven culture.
Responsibilities
- Provide current and comprehensive knowledge of Amgen’s products, effectively communicating clinical benefits to medical professionals to drive appropriate utilization.
- Act as a sales leader to achieve territory sales targets through branded sales messages, planned programs, medical educational initiatives, and both in-person and virtual engagement.
- Develop and maintain relationships with accounts, customizing interactions based on customer needs, ensuring product access, resolving reimbursement issues, and managing product contracts.
- Provide feedback on marketing strategy, analyze business effectiveness of sales activities, and develop territory plans in partnership with the District Manager.
- Collaborate with colleagues to share best practices and continuously grow as a Specialty Representative or Senior Specialty Representative.
- Demonstrate passion for Amgen’s products throughout the sales cycle, keeping patient impact at the forefront while building the brand.
- Uphold Amgen’s values: science-based decision-making, intense competition to win, creating value for patients and stakeholders, ethical behavior, fostering trust and respect, ensuring quality, teamwork, collaboration, communication, and accountability.
Requirements
- Ability to travel frequently within the territory (drive and/or fly).
- Ideal candidates live in Albuquerque or within a reasonable daily commuting distance.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications - Specialty Representative:
- Bachelor’s degree, OR
- Associate’s degree and 4 years of sales experience, OR
- High school diploma/GED and 6 years of sales experience.
Basic Qualifications - Senior Specialty Representative:
- Bachelor’s degree and 3 years of sales experience and/or clinical experience in a healthcare/scientific field (non-sales), OR
- Associate’s degree and 6 years of sales experience and/or clinical experience in a healthcare/scientific field (non-sales), OR
- High school diploma/GED and 8 years of sales experience and/or clinical experience in a healthcare/scientific field (non-sales).
Preferred Qualifications:
- Three or more years of sales experience within pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical device industries.
- Product or hospital sales experience in oncology, nephrology, dermatology, rheumatology, inflammation, cardiology, neurology, endocrinology, hepatology, gastroenterology, or infectious diseases.
- Local market knowledge and established relationships in the territory.
- Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences or Business Administration.
- Adaptability with core competencies: planning and organizing, leveraging business/industry/technical knowledge, communicating with impact, driving for results, and cultivating internal/external relationships.
Pay
The expected annual salary range for Specialty Representative in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is $89,880 - $121,602. The expected annual salary range for Senior Specialty Representative in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is $115,036 - $155,638. Actual salary will vary based on relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.
Benefits
- Comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions.
- Group medical, dental, and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts.
- Discretionary annual bonus program (or sales-based incentive plan for field sales representatives).
- Stock-based long-term incentives.
- Award-winning time-off plans.
- Flexible work models, including remote and hybrid work arrangements where possible.
- Career development opportunities, including challenging assignments and growth opportunities.