Account Executive, Specialty Pharmacy

Career Category

Sales & Marketing Operations

Job Description

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.

Account Executive, Specialty Pharmacy

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What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. As a member of the US Value & Access team the Account Executive (AE), Specialty Pharmacy, reports in to the Director, Specialty Pharmacy. This role will be responsible for managing the pharmacy relationships across key national and regional accounts, often in collaboration with our payer and patient services teams. The AE is a strategic partner to our brand teams and the primary point of contact to the pharmacies for all activities. The AEs responsibilities entail but are not limited to Specialty Pharmacies contract development, establishing fee for service programs, monitoring and improving performance, tactical problem solving, working through technical issues, specialty pharmacy data analysis, product launches, brand escalations, optimizing service and ensuring high quality standards.

As part of a broader management team, the AE will partner with Director to influence business unit decision makers, or function leads to drive strategies and objectives to effectively consult and make recommendations to senior management on significant issues, prepare and present project updates, and exercises independent judgement in developing methods, techniques, and evaluation criterion for obtaining results. This role is highly cross-functional and requires a high degree of collaboration across account teams, brand, data, and patient services.

• Responsible for managing the pharmacy relationships across key national and regional accounts, often in collaboration with our payer team
• Serve as the primary point of contact for specialty pharmacy activities including contracting, and implementing fee for service programs including operations and performance management
• Lead the planning, tracking and implementation of Specialty Pharmacy programs by serving as the business unit liaison with cross functional teams
• Support the implementation of complex projects spanning across business units where research/analysis requires evaluation of business requirements, development of achievable short/long term objectives, and coordination of interdependent activities to ensure the successful implementation of program initiatives.
• Support program development, value proposition, oversight, and day-to-day management for specialty pharmacy programs include:
• Pharmacy based patient clinical management programs
• Provider programs
• Pharma services (Adherence Program, Patient Assistance, Hub Triage, Value Based Contracting)
• Pharmacy and Medical Benefit Clinical Programs
• Travel to Specialty Pharmacies to ensure successful implementations.
• Report program performance against expectation and influence changes to programs to improve competitive position and optimize performance.
• Lead or help develop program or project scope statements, in consultation with applicable stakeholders (e.g., Brand Teams, PAR, CAPS, MAT, GSS, and Legal).
• Establish/apply quality objectives, criteria, standards, and levels using appropriate quality management methods, with stakeholder input (e.g., key performance indicators, scope definition).

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What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek is a collaborative person with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree and 2 years of pharmacy channel and negotiation experience.

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Master’s degree and 6 years of of pharmacy channel and negotiation experience.

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Bachelor’s degree and 8 years of pharmacy channel and negotiation experience.

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Associate’s degree and 10 years of pharmacy channel and negotiation experience.

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High school diploma / GED and 12 years of pharmacy channel and negotiation experience.

In addition to meeting at least one of the above requirements, you must have a minimum of 2 years experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs, or directing the allocation or resources. Your managerial experience may run concurrently with the required technical experience referenced above

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