Advocacy Relations Senior Manager, Bone Health

Career Category

Corporate Services

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, Bone Health

What you will do

Let’s do this! Let’s change the world! In this vital role the Senior Manager of Advocacy Relations at Amgen is responsible for managing relationships with advocacy groups and other external stakeholders. They may lead campaigns, communicate with advocates, and work to build and maintain relationships that support the company's goals.

The following are key responsibilities and elements of the role:

• Energizes the advocacy community to drive towards Amgen’s ambition to prevent 3 million fractures by 2033

• Drives high-quality sponsorships that measurably address known barriers to osteoporosis screening and treatment

• Empowers patient groups to advocate for patients to receive guideline appropriate osteoporosis testing and treatment

• Mobilizes patient groups to advocate for equitable patient access to appropriate osteoporosis treatment

• Builds and maintains long term, substantive relationships with patient groups, professional associations and other key stakeholders based on values of trust, respect and transparency

• Brings the voice of patients and providers into Amgen’s capabilities, including Clinical Trial Design, Direct-to-Patient Marketing, Corporate Communications, Policy, and Value and Access

• Supports the implementation of the advocacy relations strategy for Amgen’s bone health portfolio

• Works cross-functionally as a strong partner and collaborator with global and US teams including Marketing, Medical, Value and Access, Policy and Corporate Communications

• Coordinate Amgen’s engagement strategies with stakeholders at Congresses

• Nimbly aligns advocacy strategic plans with internal functions to ensure One Amgen voice and priorities are incorporated into engagement plans

• Facilitates connections between patient advocacy groups with appropriate internal subject experts, including but not limited to Global and US Medical, US Business Units, Global Product Teams, Government Affairs, Healthcare Policy, Clinical Development, Health Economics/Outcomes Research, Value & Access, and Corporate Communications

• Identifies and understands the drivers behind the official positions, priorities, and networks of influence of key patient and professional associations and advocacy groups to advise Amgen’s business strategies

• Incorporates simple and transparent systems for patient advocacy groups to understand Amgen’s partnership and funding requirements

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The Advocacy professional we seek will have these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree and 2 years of advocacy, policy, marketing, or medical experience

Or

Master’s degree and 4 years of advocacy, policy, marketing, or medical experience

Or

Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of advocacy, policy, marketing, or medical experience

Or

Associate’s degree and 10 years of advocacy, policy, marketing, or medical experience

Or

High school diploma / GED and 12 years of advocacy, policy, marketing, or medical experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience with patient advocacy groups and/or professional (medical) associations.

• 3+ years of experience working for global pharmaceutical companies as a liaison with patient advocacy groups and/or professional associations.

• Sensitivity to diverse groups of people both internal and external with the ability to manage many different opinions and perspectives, inclu