Thought Leader Liaison - UPLIZNA - Rocky Mountains (Rare Disease)

Territory covers: Denver, Salt Lake City, Minneapolis, MN, Kansas City, KS

About the role

Join Amgen’s mission of serving patients. At Amgen, our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do. Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. With a focus on four therapeutic areas—Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease—we reach millions of patients each year. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline of medicines to treat cancer, heart disease, inflammatory conditions, rare diseases, and obesity-related conditions.

As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines. Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science-based. If you have a passion for challenges and opportunities, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team.

Responsibilities

• Significant customer-facing time, building relationships with existing and new thought leaders for involvement in current and future commercial activities.
• Creates local peer-to-peer strategies in coordination with national and regional strategic marketing and sales business plans.
• Liaise with sales and marketing to ensure thought leader concerns/needs are addressed in a timely and thorough manner.
• Collaborates closely with the Amgen advocacy team to develop relationships with key physician and patient organizations.
• Creates and executes short-term and long-term Key Opinion Leader (KOL) engagement plans.
• Captures, synthesizes, and shares key thought leader insights to help shape brand strategy and prepare for future life cycle management and competitor entry into the marketplace.
• Identifies evidence gaps across product and disease education through appropriate thought leader discussions and podium observations.
• Disseminates thought leader insights to broader Amgen stakeholders, including marketing, sales, and market access, to drive development of new strategies and tactical approaches.
• Coordinates leadership interactions at all assigned national/regional and state society conferences.
• Initiates and pursues opportunities to involve Amgen in meaningful programs with thought leaders to ensure Amgen is strategically and strongly positioned in the market.
• Assists with speaker events, including selection of speakers, training for speakers, and reviewing current speaker programs ensuring consistent messaging and compliant execution.
• Collaborates with the marketing team on peer-to-peer programs, including speaker training programs, and contributes to the ongoing refinement of the U.S. speaker bureau.
• Contributes to content development by providing customer insight and perspective, increasing program impact and relevance.

Requirements

Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree and 2 years of marketing or sales experience, or
• Master's degree and 4 years of marketing or sales experience, or
• Bachelor's degree and 6 years of marketing or sales experience, or
• Associate's degree and 10 years of marketing or sales experience, or
• High school diploma/GED and 12 years of marketing or sales experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Customer-facing pharmaceutical or biotech industry experience (field sales, product marketing, medical, or clinical experience in the same or related therapeutic area) is required.
• Experience in the neurology, rheumatology, and/or gastroenterology therapeutic area.
• Exposure to multiple sclerosis and key MS centers, strongly preferred.
• Clinical experience in rare diseases or specialty biologics strongly preferred.
• Thought leader or demonstrated KOL leadership experience a plus.
• Proven track record of consistent achievement or exceeding expectations in assigned responsibilities, goals, objectives, and other relevant metrics, especially involving cross-functional matrix teams.
• Previous experience in multiple commercial functions beneficial.
• Demonstrated experience customizing and executing timely action plans across various initiatives.
• Demonstrates leadership, strategic agility, and persuasive aptitude.
• Exceptional ability to collaborate and/or lead cross-functional teams.
• Ability to present ideas effectively by consolidating and customizing information.
• Strong organizational, analytic, and time management planning skills.
• Exceptional clinical/business acumen.

Schedule

• Willingness to travel up to 80% of the time, inclusive of conferences on weekends, overnight programs, and attendance at key internal meetings.
• Individual must reside within territory boundaries given travel requirements.

Benefits

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan comprising health and welfare plans for staff and eligible dependents, financial plans with opportunities to save towards retirement or other goals, work/life balance, and career development opportunities, including:

• 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.
• A discretionary annual bonus program, or for field sales representatives, a sales-based incentive plan.
• Stock-based long-term incentives.
• Award-winning time-off plans and bi-annual company-wide shutdowns.
• Flexible work models, including remote work arrangements, where possible.