Thought Leader Liaison - UPLIZNA - NorthEast (Rare Disease)

Amgen Inc. (IR); New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 176,000 - 238,000; Full time

Job summary

Amgen Inc. is seeking an IgG4-RD Thought Leader Liaison Senior Manager for the Northeast region.

This role focuses on executing peer-to-peer strategies, building productive relationships with thought leaders, and coordinating with Sales, Site of Care, and Medical Affairs to align on customer needs. The position emphasizes thought leader engagement, cross-functional collaboration, and strategic planning to support brand strategy and lifecycle initiatives, with up to 80% travel within the

Qualifications

• Must have clinical or marketing/sales background with leadership in thought leaders and customers.
• Experience engaging key opinion leaders (KOLs) in neuroimmunology or related fields is preferred.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration with sales, medical affairs, and marketing.
• Proven ability to develop and execute peer-to-peer strategies and speaker programs.
• Evidence of strategic planning and relationship-building with thought leaders.

Responsibilities

• Significant customer-facing time building relationships with existing and new thought leaders.
• Create local peer-to-peer strategies coordinated with national and regional plans.
• Liaise with sales and marketing to address thought leader needs in a timely manner.
• Collaborate with the advocacy team to engage physician and patient organizations.
• Develop short and long-term KOL engagement plans and disseminate insights to stakeholders.

Skills

Customer facing

KOL engagement

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic thinking

Education

Doctorate degree

Master's degree

Bachelor's degree

Associate degree

High school diploma

Job description

Career Category Sales Job Description Territory Covers: New York, Northern NJ

HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?

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.

IgG4-RD Thought Leader Liaison Sr. Manager - NorthEast Live

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world! This critical role is a customer-facing role responsible for executing the customer aspects of the Neuroimmunology Business Unit’s peer to peer strategies and building productive relationships with speakers, thought leaders and other key influencers from key accounts in their assigned geography. The IgG4-RD Thought Leader Liaison (TLL) is responsible for compliantly liaising with Sales, Site of Care, and Medical Affairs to address customer needs, identify/initiate appropriate projects of mutual interest to Amgen and customers, anticipate market trends, and uncover competitive intelligence, ensuring delivery against the Business Unit objectives. The TLL will align across the Amgen organization to coordinate thought leader interactions and deliver a cohesive customer experience.

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 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.
• Disseminate thought leader insights to broader Amgen stakeholders, including marketing, sales, market access to drive development of new strategies and tactical approaches and to ensure a comprehensive view of market trends is integrated into overall planning
• Coordinate leadership interactions at all assigned national/regional, 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 marketing team on peer to peer programs including speaker training programs and contributes to ongoing refinement of U.S. speaker bureau
• Contributes to content development by providing customer insight and perspective, increasing program impact & relevance

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The marketing professional we seek is a collaborative partner with these qualifications.

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 Associates 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 rheumatology and/or gastroenterology therapeutic area, 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 any 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

Travel Requirements

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

What you can expect of us

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: 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 where possible.

Salary Range

175,831.00USD -237,889.00 USD

Sponsorship

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.

Equal Opportunity

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 committed to unlocking the potential of biology for patients suffering from serious illnesses by discovering, developing, manufacturing and delivering innovative human therapeutics. This approach begins by using tools like advanced human genetics to unravel the complexities of disease and understand the fundamentals of human biology. Amgen focuses on areas of high unmet medical need and leverages its biologics manufacturing expertise to strive for solutions that improve health outcomes and dramatically improve people's lives. A biotechnology pioneer since 1980, Amgen has grown to be one of the world's leading independent biotechnology companies, has reached millions of patients around the world and is developing a pipeline of medicines with breakaway potential. For more information, visit www.amgen.com and follow us on www.twitter.com/amgen