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

Amgen
Full-time
Remote friendly (Seattle, WA)
United States
Marketing

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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 Masterβ€šΓ„Γ΄s 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
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