Thought Leader Liaison - UPLIZNA - Pacific Northwest (Rare Disease)

Role Summary

Thought Leader Liaison - Pacific Northwest. Territory includes Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Sacramento.

Responsibilities

• Significant customer-facing time, building relationships with existing and new thought leaders for involvement in current and future commercial activities
• Creates local peer to peer strategies in coordination with national and regional strategic marketing and sales business plans
• Liaise with sales and marketing to ensure thought leader concerns/needs are addressed in a timely and thorough manner
• Collaborates closely with the Amgen advocacy team to develop relationships with key physician and patient organizations
• Creates and executes short term and long-term KOL engagement plans
• Captures, synthesizes and shares key thought leader insights to help shape brand strategy and prepare for future life cycle management and competitor entry into the marketplace
• Identifies evidence gaps across product and disease education through appropriate thought leader discussions and podium observations
• Disseminate thought leader insights to broader Amgen stakeholders, including marketing, sales, market access to drive development of new strategies and tactical approaches and to ensure a comprehensive view of market trends is integrated into overall planning
• Coordinate leadership interactions at all assigned national/regional, state society conferences
• Initiates and pursues opportunities to involve Amgen in meaningful programs with thought leaders to ensure Amgen is strategically and strongly positioned in the market
• Assists with speaker events, including selection of speakers, training for speakers and reviewing current speaker programs ensuring consistent messaging and compliant execution
• Collaborates with marketing team on peer to peer programs including speaker training programs and contributes to ongoing refinement of U.S. speaker bureau
• Contributes to content development by providing customer insight and perspective, increasing program impact & relevance

Qualifications

• Basic Qualifications:
  • Doctorate degree and 2 years of marketing or sales experience
  • Or Master‚Äôs degree and 4 years of marketing or sales experience
  • Or Bachelor's degree and 6 years of marketing or sales experience
  • Or Associates degree and 10 years of marketing or sales experience
  • Or High school diploma / GED and 12 years of marketing or sales experience
• Preferred Qualifications:
  • Customer facing pharmaceutical or biotech industry experience (field sales, product marketing, medical or clinical experience in the same or related therapeutic area) is required
  • Experience in the neurology, rheumatology and/or gastroenterology therapeutic area
  • Exposure to multiple sclerosis and key MS centers, strongly preferred
  • Clinical experience in rare diseases or specialty biologics strongly preferred
  • Thought leader or demonstrated KOL leadership experience a plus
  • Proven track record of consistent achievement or exceeding expectations in assigned responsibilities, goals, objectives and any other relevant metrics, especially involving cross functional matrix teams
  • Previous experience in multiple commercial functions beneficial
  • Demonstrated experience customizing and executing timely action plans across various initiatives
  • Demonstrates leadership, strategic agility and persuasive aptitude
  • Exceptional ability to collaborate and/or lead cross functional teams
  • Ability to present ideas effectively by consolidating and customizing information
  • Strong organizational, analytic and time management planning skills
  • Exceptional clinical/business acumen

Additional Requirements

• Travel Requirements: Willingness to travel up to 80% of the time, inclusive of conferences on weekends, overnight programs as well as attendance at key internal meetings
• Individual must reside within territory boundaries given travel requirements