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

About this role

Career Category Sales & Marketing Operations Job Description Territory covers: Denver, Salt Lake City, Minneapolis, MN, Kansas City, KS

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. HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION? If you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. At Amgen, our shared mission—to serve patients—drives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies. We are global collaborators who achieve together—researching, manufacturing, and delivering ever-better products that reach over 10 million patients worldwide. It’s time for a career you can be proud of. Thought Leader Liaison -Rocky Mountains

Live What you will do

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 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

Win 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 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 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, strateg

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