Role Summary
Senior Manager, Payer Marketing, Rare Disease (Remote) will support the US Value & Access team's mission to secure coverage for Amgen's brands and to support patient access. The role focuses on strengthening the payer value proposition and driving messaging during strategic payer discussions. It also leads US-RWE workstreams aligned with Global, HEOR, CfOR, Medical, and Brand teams to inform payer decisions.
Responsibilities
- Align and/or lead cross-functional workstreams to support business initiatives for payers
- Develop value narratives by working cross-functionally with Brand Marketing, Coverage & Pricing (C&P) team, Market Access (MAT), Medical Value & Populations Health (MVPH), Health Economics Outcomes Research (HEOR), Center for Observational Research (CfOR), and U.S. Medical teams
- Lead regular US RWE meetings to develop and evaluate RWE studies that will support US payer objectives (as well as brand goals)
- Develop key value resources that incorporate DSE, clinical, pharmacoeconomic, and real-world evidence for use with payers to position the value of covering and utilizing Amgen's products
- Partner with internal legal, regulatory, and medical to obtain approval of core resources and training via the Materials Approval and Compliance (MAC) process
- Effectively rollout and train the Market Access team (field account executives) and/or Key Account Managers (KAMs) on programs and resources and provide support to field staff to address questions
- Develop and manage the payer marketing budget for select products
Additional Requirements
- 5-10% travel may be required
Qualifications
- Required: Doctorate degree and 2 years of directly related experience; OR Master's degree and 4 years of directly related experience; OR Bachelor's degree and 6 years of directly related experience; OR Associate's degree and 10 years of directly related experience; OR High school diploma / GED and 12 years of directly related experience
- Preferred: Strong business acumen, analytical skills, and strategic thinking ability
- Preferred: Strong marketer to synthesize complex clinical and economic messaging into a differentiated value story
- Preferred: Strong problem solving and analytic skills to provide advice in developing and shaping RWE and HCEI analysis
- Preferred: Solid understanding of US health care system, US Payers and reimbursement
- Preferred: Experience in pharmaceutical/biotech industry
Skills
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Development of payer value resources and messaging
- Communication of disease burden, clinical efficacy and safety, and health economics data to payers
- RWE study design and evaluation