Specialty Representative/Senior Specialty Representative -Rheumatology - Cleveland, OH

Amgen; Cleveland (OH); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Total Rewards Plan

Medical/Dental/Vision coverage

Flexible spending accounts

Job summary

Amgen is seeking a Specialty Representative to serve healthcare professionals in the Youngstown and Cleveland area. In this role you will provide current clinical knowledge of Amgen products and promote their benefits to physicians, with a focus on delivering value to patients.

You will lead sales efforts, develop territory plans, manage accounts, and collaborate with colleagues to share best practices while advancing a robust pipeline and mission-driven culture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree OR Associate degree with 4 years of sales experience OR High school diploma/GED with 6 years of sales experience.
• Senior: Bachelor’s degree with 3 years of sales/clinical healthcare experience OR Associate with 6 years sales/clinical experience.
• Preferred: knowledge of oncology, nephrology, dermatology, rheumatology, inflammation, cardiology, neurology, endocrinology, hepatology, gastroenterology or infectious diseases.

Responsibilities

• Provide current clinical knowledge of Amgen's products to medical professionals.
• Lead territory sales by delivering branded messages and programs.
• Manage accounts, ensure product access, resolve reimbursement issues, maintain contracts.
• Analyze business effectiveness and develop territory plans with the District Manager.
• Maintain passion for products throughout the sales cycle and build the brand.
• Share best practices and grow as a Senior Specialty Representative.
• Deliver results considering disease state awareness and industry changes.

Skills

Adaptability

Communication

Relationship building

Education

Bachelor's degree

Associate degree + 4 years sales experience

HS diploma/GED + 6 years sales experience

Job description

Territory covers: Youngstown and Cleveland

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. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline of medicines to treat cancer, heart disease, inflammatory conditions, rare diseases, and obesity 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 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.

Specialty Representative/Senior Specialty Representative

Live

What You Will Do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will be the liaison to our customers by providing clinical knowledge of our products to medical professionals.

Amgen's medicines treat serious illnesses and our research address diseases with a limited number of treatment options. With a robust and differentiated pipeline, Amgen remains committed to advancing science to dramatically improve people’s lives. As a values-based organization with a powerful sense of shared purpose toward our mission: to serve patients, we are actively searching for a Specialty Representative/Senior Specialty Representative to deliver on this commitment to patients.

Amgen supports and encourages our team members to have long term, fulfilling and meaningful careers through challenging assignments, career development, and valuable opportunities such as this opportunity to craft a long-term career with Amgen. The Specialty Representative/Senior Specialty Representative acts as the primary customer contact and is responsible for executing marketing strategy and promoting Amgen products as led by the District Manager.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide current and comprehensive clinical knowledge of Amgen's products and effectively communicate the clinical and economic benefits of the products to medical professionals
• Perform as a sales leader to achieve territory sales by executing and delivering branded sales messages strategies. This includes: delivering branded sales messages, executing planned programs, scheduling and following-up with medical educational programs, and achieving or exceeding sales targets
• Utilize internal and external relationships to service and manage accounts which includes: ensuring product access, resolving/triage reimbursement issues, and maintaining product contracts
• Analyze business effectiveness of sales activities and territory analysis, as well as develop territory plans with the District Manager
• Have passion for our products and sustain that passion through the entire sales cycle while always building our brand, never losing sight of how we serve patients
• Partner with other colleagues to share best practices and be in a state of continuous curiosity and learning to help grow as a Senior Specialty Representative
• Leverage passion for disease state awareness, industry, regulatory and competitive changes to deliver agreed results

Win

What We Expect Of You

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The sales professional we seek is a go-getter with these 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 experienceand/or clinical experience in healthcare / scientific field that is not sales relatedOR
• Associate degree and 6 years of sales experienceand/or clinical experience in healthcare / scientific field that is not sales relatedOR
• High school diploma / GED and 8 years of sales experienceand/or clinical experience in healthcare / scientific field that is not sales related

Preferred Qualifications:

• Two or more years of sales experience within pharmaceutical, biotech or medical device industry Product or hospital sales experience in the areas of oncology, nephrology, dermatology, rheumatology, inflammation, cardiology, neurology, endocrinology, hepatology, gastroenterology or infectious diseases; and the diseases and treatments involved with these specialties
• Local market knowledge
• A Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences or Business Administration
• Adaptability with our Core Competencies: Planning and Organizing; Leveraging Business, Industry, and Technical Knowledge; Communicating with Impact; Driving for Results; and Cultivating Internal and External Relationships.

Thrive

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 Specialty Representative in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is $95,167- $116,315. The expected annual salary range for Senior Specialty Representative in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is $122,769- $150,051. 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

In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.

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.

Sponsorship for this role is not guaranteed.

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.

Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation. Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider you without regard to your race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.