Thought Leader Liaison, KRYSTEXXA, Mid-Atlantic (Washington DC, Charlotte)

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Job Description

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this critical role, you will focus on building and maintaining relationships with external opinion leaders and large medical centers treating uncontrolled gout across rheumatology and nephrology. The TLL role is a commercial, field-based, customer-facing role focused on the identification and cultivation of relationships with both leading and emerging key opinion leaders (KOLs) as well as leading the development of key customers and speakers.

You will be a critical member of the Brand Team and will coordinate closely with field sales and field medical. It will be important for you to drive alignment to the KRYSTEXXA brand objectives and strategic imperatives. Additionally, you will be expected to bring insights to help shape the brand strategy, anticipate market events and champion cross functional collaboration with internal team members.

In this role, you will report into the TLL Director for KRYSTEXXA and will be part of the Rare Disease Business Unit.

• 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

What we expect of you

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

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree and 2 years of marketing, sales, relevant clinical or medical experience

Or

Master's degree and 4 years of marketing, sales, relevant clinical or medical experience

Or

Bachelor's degree and 6 years of marketing, sales, relevant clinical or medical experience

Or

Associates degree and 10 years of marketing, sales, relevant clinical or medical experience

Or

High school diploma / GED and 12 years of marketing, sales, relevant clinical or medical experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of experience working in rheumatology, nephrology or Rare Disease in customer facing roles (sales, district manager, medical affairs/MSL, marketing opinion leader management, etc.)
• Experience developing and executing HCP key customer strategies
• Relationships with rheumatology or nephrology opinion leaders
• Biotech/pharmaceutical industry experience required
• Strong relationship management capabilities
• Ability to understand scientific literature and key publications
• Excellent organizational skills with keen attention to detail and the abilities to take ownership of issues and to work independently with confidence and to meet deadlines
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work well with all levels of employees and demonstrate strong collaboration skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Professional, proactive demeanor
• Strong interpersonal skills

Travel Requirements:

• Requires approximately 50-65% travel by air or car is regularly required
• Individual must reside within territory boundaries given travel requirements
• Willingness to work some evenings and select weekends is required
• Located near a hub airport is recommended

Thrive

What you can expect of us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for our teammates’ professional and personal growth and well-being.

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan comprising health and welfare plans for staff and eligible dependents, financial plans with opportunities to save towards retirement or other goals, work/life balance, and career development opportunities including:      

Comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions, group medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts. 

A discretionary annual bonus program, or for field sales representatives, a sales-based incentive plan

Stock-based long-term incentives  

Award-winning time-off plans and bi-annual company-wide shutdowns 

Flexible work models, including remote work arrangements, where possible

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for a career that defies imagination

In our quest to serve patients above all else, Amgen is the first to imagine, and the last to doubt. Join us.

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Application deadline

Amgen anticipates accepting applications until June 16, 2025 however, we may continue accepting applications beyond this date if we do not receive a sufficient number of candidates.

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