Thought Leader Liaison Sr. Manager - Dermatology - Central

Career Category

Sales & Marketing Operations

Job Description

Territory covers: Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Arizona, California (San Diego), New Mexico

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.

Dermatology Thought Leader Liaison Sr. Manager, Central

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world! This critical role will focus on maintaining and building relationships with external Opinion Leaders and large medical centers in Dermatology.

The Central Thought Leader Liaison (TLL) Sr. Manager will report into the Director of Professional Relations with a dotted line to the West Regional Sales Director. They will join the National team of Dermatology Thought Leader Liaisons in the inflammation Business Unit. The TLL will be a critical member of the Otezla Brand Marketing Team and will coordinate closely with the Otezla field sales team. The TLL will be responsible for the following, but not limited to:

OL Development and Management

• Identify, cultivate, and maintain professional relationships with established and up-and-coming regional Opinion Leaders in Dermatology

• Work cross functionally to drive and develop aligned external engagement strategies across multiple cross functional teams including medical, training, marketing, and sales

• Manage OL Speaker bureau relationships including supporting speaker training, compliance, and product theater speaker management

• Manage regional speaker bureau, including providing speaker recommendations

• Identify and manage relationships with key national Dermatology Accounts and Psoriasis Centers

Conference Management

• Attend and manage brand activity at key regional and national Dermatology conferences, including managing product theaters, and other ancillary brand activities

• Manage overall regional sponsorship budget, including working with organizations to secure sponsorships, and owning regional congress plan

• Coordinate executive meetings with OLs at national conferences

• Complete all necessary conference and speaker contract requirements in a timely manner

• Coordinate with marketing to ensure all congress materials are delivered on time

Coordinate with sales and marketing

• Coordinate closely with the sales team to ensure alignment with conference OL engagement plan as well as other OL/account engagement

• Provide customer and market insights back to the marketing team and provide input into P2P development, advisory boards, and strategy

• Partner with the HCP Marketing team to develop advisory board strategy, content, advisory recommendations, and attend advisory boards as appropriate

• Provide insights summary from key congresses to the marketing team

Additional Information:

• Significant business travel, by air or car, is regularly required (Greater than 50%)

• Willingness to work evenings and select weekends is required

• Located near a hub airport is recommended

• Role will cover the Western United States; CA, NV, AZ, WA, UT, OR

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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:

• 5+ years of experience wo