Sr Manager, Patient Advocacy (Uncontrolled Gout)

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.

Senior Manager, Patient Advocacy – Rare Disease

What you will do

Let’s do this. In this vital role, you will drive patient advocacy efforts focused on uncontrolled gout. Reporting to the Director, Advocacy Relations, you will help activate and maintain the U.S. patient advocacy strategy for uncontrolled gout. This includes maintaining and extending relationships with key patient advocacy groups, forging new alliances, and ensuring alignment with the broader Gout business unit's objectives. They will ensure that strategy and approach lines up to the overarching commercial strategy.

You will be part of a dynamic and collaborative advocacy team that works across therapeutic areas, geographies, and initiatives. Your mission is to amplify the patient voice, co-create meaningful solutions, and ensure that the real-world needs of people living with uncontrolled gout are represented in strategic decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a key contributor to Amgen’s U.S. Advocacy strategy and execution for uncontrolled Gout, including strategic programming, awareness month activations, patient events and national and/or local engagement opportunities with the advocacy community.

• Serves as primary relationship manager to gout related patient groups, cultivating high-trust, compliant, partnerships based on shared goals in awareness, education, and access.

• Collaborates cross-functionally to ensure advocacy organization insights inform medical, commercial, development, and policy strategies for Gout/rare disease.

• Represents Amgen in relevant coalitions and forums to elevate the Gout community’s voice and needs.

• Drives high-quality initiatives and shared goals to empower Gout patients to take a more active role in treatment decision-making with their HCPs.

• Proactively identify emerging trends, issues, and community needs related to uncontrolled gout, and formulate timely, collaborative responses.

• Support awareness, education, and empowerment efforts across the patient and caregiver communities.

• Represent the patient perspective internally, especially during cross-functional planning with R&D, Medical Affairs, Commercial, Communications, Legal, Market Access, and Government/Public Affairs.

• Champion inclusion, equity, and diversity of thought in all advocacy strategies.

• Create and execute collaboration plans with advocacy groups on mutually aligned goals, including public health and clinical education campaigns.

• Organize patient feedback mechanisms to ensure ongoing alignment with advocacy and overall business priorities.

• Travel up to 40% as needed, to engage in internal meetings, advocacy meetings, and conferences.

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we use our unique experiences to serve patients. The successful candidate will bring a deep understanding of advocacy, communication, and strategic collaboration.

Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree and 2 years of experience in patient advocacy, consumer marketing, communications, government affairs or public health

• OR Master’s degree and 4 years of relevant experience in patient advocacy, consumer marketing, communications, government affairs or public health

• OR Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of relevant experience in patient advocacy, consumer marketing, communications, government affairs or public health

• OR Associate’s degree and 10 years of relevant experience in patient advocacy, consumer marketing, communications, government affairs or public health

• OR High school diploma / GED and 12 years of r