Rare Disease Vasculitis Thought Leader Liaison – Sr. Manager (Northwest)

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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.

Rare Disease Vasculitis Thought Leader Liaison - Senior Manager

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 involved in vasculitis, and the broader Rheumatology and Nephrology provider landscape.

The Thought Leader Liaison (TLL) Sr. Manager will report into the Director of Professional and Marketplace Engagement and will join the National team of Rare Disease Inflammation Thought Leader Liaisons in the Inflammation Business Unit. The TLL will be a critical member of the Brand Team and will coordinate closely with field teams. The TLL will be responsible for the following, but not limited to:

OL / Strategic Customer Development and Management

• Identify, cultivate, and maintain professional relationships with established and up-and-coming regional Opinion Leaders in ANCA Vasculitis (Rheumatology / Nephrology / other specialties diagnosing and managing vasculitis)
• Support deep engagement of key customers (ex. Navigating IDNs / Centers of Excellence, Professional Organizations, Foundations/Patient Organizations)
• Manage OL Speaker bureau relationships including supporting speaker training, compliance, and product theater speaker management
• Manage regional speaker bureau, including providing speaker recommendations
• Identify, map, and manage relationships with key national Vasculitis Centers and other large treatment facilities (includes the detailed mapping of referral patterns, key relationships, and influencers)
• Coordinate and leading all one-to-one exchanges between brand team and KOLs across key initiatives and events

Congress / Key Event Management

• Attend and manage brand activity at key regional and national inflammation conferences (may encompass Rheumatology, Nephrology, Pulmonology), 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, marketing, and medical affairs

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

Drive key initiatives

• Leading peer-to-peer marketing initiatives such as advisory boards, speaker bureau & product theater content development
• Shaping team content development needs include disease state
• Participate in strategic discussions with brand team

Additional Information:

• Business travel, by air or car, is regularly required (50%- 65%)
• Willingness to work evenings and select weekends is required
• Located near a hub airport is recommended
• Coverage of Northwest Region: Northern CA, OR, WA, ID, HI, and AK

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