Advocacy Relations Senior Manager, Respiratory

Role Summary

Advocacy Relations Senior Manager, Respiratory will lead Amgen’s external engagement and patient advocacy strategy for respiratory patients, collaborating with our co-commercial partner AstraZeneca. Based in the United States and fully remote, the role focuses on shaping patient engagement in asthma and other chronic respiratory diseases through cross-functional collaboration with Amgen and AstraZeneca.

Responsibilities

• Strategy & Partnership
  • Develop and execute comprehensive U.S. advocacy strategy plans for respiratory therapeutic areas, aligned with business goals, patient needs, and the evolving healthcare environment.
  • Champion and lead meaningful engagement with respiratory patients and advocacy organizations, navigating a highly collaborative environment with the co-commercialization partner to ensure alignment on shared strategy, stakeholder engagement, and co-branded initiatives.
  • Build and manage strategic, compliant relationships with national and community-based respiratory advocacy organizations, including those focused on education and access.
  • Partner closely with Medical Affairs, Commercial, Access, Corporate Affairs, Government Affairs, and Compliance to ensure patient perspectives are integrated into internal planning and external programming.
  • Position Amgen (and the broader co-commercialization partnership) as a trusted and credible partner to organizations advocating for policy, access, and disease awareness.
• Cross-Company & Community Collaboration
  • Engage in regular coordination with advocacy counterparts at the partner company to co-create programs, ensure consistent messaging, and avoid duplication of effort.
  • Represent the partnership in joint industry forums, coalitions, and patient-centered alliances.
  • Develop scalable, high-impact frameworks for collaborative engagement with advocacy organizations that lead to measurable impact in education, policy, and patient empowerment.
• Access Support & Community Engagement
  • Support the development of patient access strategies through partnerships with advocacy groups addressing barriers to diagnosis, treatment initiation, and sustained disease management.
  • Represent Amgen for engagements with respiratory coalitions focused on Medicaid access, formulary coverage, and community-based care delivery.
  • Co-create culturally relevant educational tools and digital resources with advocacy partners to improve patient understanding and disease self-management.
  • Monitor and inform the adaptation of strategies in response to changes in the policy landscape, patient needs, and healthcare delivery trends.
• Patient Voice Integration & Insight Generation
  • Champion the integration of patient and caregiver insights into clinical development, lifecycle management, market access planning, and commercial strategy.
  • Lead efforts to collect, analyze, and translate qualitative patient insights into actionable business recommendations.
  • Oversee patient storytelling initiatives that elevate real-world experiences, with a focus on amplifying diverse perspectives and unmet needs.
  • Advocate internally for patient-centered thinking, helping shape a culture of empathy, equity, and innovation.

Qualifications

• Required: Doctorate degree and 2 years of patient advocacy and/or healthcare policy and access experience
• Required: Master’s degree and 4 years of patient advocacy and/or healthcare policy and access experience
• Required: Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of patient advocacy and/or healthcare policy and access experience
• Required: Associate’s degree and 10 years of patient advocacy and/or healthcare policy and access experience
• Required: High school diploma / GED and 12 years of patient advocacy and/or healthcare policy and access experience
• Preferred: 5+ years of progressive experience in patient advocacy, public affairs, healthcare strategy, value and access or related fields, including demonstrated leadership of cross-functional or external engagement teams.
• Preferred: Proven track record of building and sustaining trusted relationships with patient advocacy organizations, community leaders, and individuals with lived experience.
• Preferred: Understanding of the role patient perspectives play in shaping health policy, access, and clinical trial awareness.
• Preferred: Experience engaging advocacy partners across the full product lifecycle—from clinical development and trial design through regulatory milestones, access planning, launch, and post-approval engagement.
• Preferred: Demonstrated success in building trust-based relationships with advocacy organizations and community leaders, especially in competitive or stigmatized disease areas.
• Preferred: Strategic thinker with the ability to align advocacy strategies to business priorities while staying grounded in patient insights and community needs.
• Preferred: Ability to build consensus across diverse groups of people both internal and external with the ability to manage different opinions and perspectives.
• Preferred: Comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-changing policy and payer environments, especially in the context of emerging or first-in-class therapies.
• Preferred: Excellent communication, storytelling, and influencing skills to elevate patient perspectives and inspire organizational action.
• Preferred: Recognized internally and externally for executive presence, sound judgment, and commitment to authentic, empathetic patient partnerships.
• Preferred: Understands the pharma/biotech business model, regulatory process & compliance guidelines.

Additional Requirements

• Domestic travel is expected.