Advocacy Relations Senior Manager, Enterprise Capabilities

Amgen SA; United States; Remote; USD 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Amgen as an Advocacy Relations Senior Manager, focusing on advancing patient advocacy within a trusted organization. This remote role involves collaborating across various teams to enhance advocacy capabilities, manage stakeholder relationships, and contribute to strategic initiatives that impact patient engagement and health policy.

Benefits

Comprehensive employee benefits package

Discretionary annual bonus program

Stock-based long-term incentives

Award-winning time-off plans

Flexible work models

Qualifications

• 2 years of patient advocacy and/or healthcare policy experience (Doctorate).
• 4 years of experience (Master’s) or 6 years (Bachelor’s).

Responsibilities

• Support U.S. and global advocacy teams in advancing patient advocacy.
• Drive best-in-class advocacy capabilities across therapeutic areas.
• Manage relationships with external partners and vendors.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Stakeholder Engagement

Collaboration

Education

Doctorate degree

Master’s degree

Bachelor’s degree

Associate’s degree

High school diploma / GED

Job description

Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients

At Amgen, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. 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 our focus on four therapeutic areas –Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease– we reach millions of patients each year. 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 to help people live longer, fuller happier lives.

Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

Advocacy Relations Senior Manager, Enterprise Capabilities

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will support U.S. and global advocacy teams in advancing the organization’s goal of being a trusted partner of choice within the patient advocacy community. The Senior Manager will work across all of Amgen’s portfolios to support the consistent integration of patient advocacy throughout the organization. This role will help ensure alignment, coordination, and operational excellence across markets, contributing to a more connected, responsive, and patient-centered enterprise. This position is remote, with travel anticipated to support key meetings, events, and cross-functional collaboration, and will report to the Enterprise Director of Advocacy.

• Drive best-in-class advocacy capabilities across all therapeutic areas, enabling scalable, high-impact engagement with patient communities globally.
• Support the collaboration of patient advocacy across Amgen functions, including Medical and Commercial and others, ensuring alignment with therapeutic area strategies, public health initiatives and enterprise-wide priorities.
• Serve as the primary liaison to Clinical Program Operations (CPO) and the Patient Engagement, Recruitment & Retention (PER&R) teams to advance the role of advocacy in clinical trial design, recruitment, and retention.
• Support collaboration and coordination with Government Affairs to ensure advocacy efforts align with broader policy initiatives and key external organizational priorities.
• Contribute to the planning and execution of major advocacy and stakeholder events (e.g., stakeholder summits, medical congresses) across U.S. and global markets
• Lead development and implementation of advocacy capability-building programs to empower patient communities and elevate engagement impact.
• Design and deliver advocacy training, ensuring team understanding of community engagement strategies.
• Support development of internal and external advocacy communications to enhance visibility, alignment, and partner engagement, including serving as the point of contact for the Patient Voices team.
• Manage core compliance and regulatory processes for advocacy, communicating relevant Compliance, Legal, Medical and Regulatory updates to the advocacy team.
• Oversee day-to-day advocacy team operations, including budget oversight, resource planning, and process optimization to drive team efficiency.
• Manage relationships with external partners and vendors, ensuring alignment with advocacy strategy and high-quality execution across initiatives.

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The Advocacy professional we seek is an individual with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree and 2 years of patient advocacy and/or healthcare policy experience

Or

Master’s degree and 4 years of patient advocacy and/or healthcare policy experience

Or

Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of patient advocacy and/or healthcare policy experience

Or

Associate’s degree and 10 years of patient advocacy and/or healthcare policy experience

Or

High school diploma / GED and 12 years of patient advocacy and/or healthcare policy experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• 7+ years of progressive experience in patient advocacy, public affairs, healthcare strategy, or related fields, including demonstrated leadership in cross-functional or external stakeholder engagement.
• Ability to build and sustain trusted relationships with patient advocacy organizations, community leaders, and individuals with lived experience.
• Experience collaborating with advocacy partners across the product lifecycle—from clinical development and trial design through regulatory milestones, access planning, launch, and post-approval engagement.
• Strong ability to navigate and unify diverse advocacy perspectives to build alignment and drive shared goals.
• Demonstrated agility in ambiguous, fast-evolving policy, access, or therapeutic landscapes, particularly in the context of novel or first-in-class treatments.
• Exceptional communication, storytelling, and influence skills to elevate the patient voice and catalyze internal action.

What you can expect of us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for your professional and personal growth and well-being. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we’ll support your journey every step of the way.

The expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is posted. Actual salary will vary based on several factors including but not limited to, relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan, based on eligibility, comprising of 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 that may include:

• A 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
• Flexible work models, including remote and hybrid work arrangements, where possible

Apply now and make a lasting impact with the Amgen team.

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Application deadline

Amgen does not have an application deadline for this position; we will continue accepting applications until we receive a sufficient number or select a candidate for the position.

As an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people around the world, Amgen fosters an inclusive environment of diverse, ethical, committed and highly accomplished people who respect each other and live the Amgen values to continue advancing science to serve patients. Together, we compete in the fight against serious disease.

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