Advocacy Relations Senior Manager, Enterprise Capabilities

Amgen • Washington, DC

224d • Remote

About The Position

At Amgen, if you feel like you're part of something bigger, it's because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do. Since 1980, we've helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world's toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas -Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease- we reach millions of patients each year. As a member of the Amgen team, you'll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives. Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you'll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

Requirements

• Doctorate degree and 2 years of patient advocacy and/or healthcare policy experience.
• Master's degree and 4 years of patient advocacy and/or healthcare policy experience.
• Bachelor's degree and 6 years of patient advocacy and/or healthcare policy experience.
• Associate's degree and 10 years of patient advocacy and/or healthcare policy experience.
• High school diploma / GED and 12 years of patient advocacy and/or healthcare policy experience.

Nice To Haves

• 7+ years of progressive experience in patient advocacy, public affairs, healthcare strategy, or related fields, including demonstrated leadership in cross-functional or external stakeholder engagement.
• Ability to build and sustain trusted relationships with patient advocacy organizations, community leaders, and individuals with lived experience.
• Experience collaborating with advocacy partners across the product lifecycle—from clinical development and trial design through regulatory milestones, access planning, launch, and post-approval engagement.
• Strong ability to navigate and unify diverse advocacy perspectives to build alignment and drive shared goals.
• Demonstrated agility in ambiguous, fast-evolving policy, access, or therapeutic landscapes, particularly in the context of novel or first-in-class treatments.
• Exceptional communication, storytelling, and influence skills to elevate the patient voice and catalyze internal action.

Responsibilities

• Support U.S. and global advocacy teams in advancing the organization's goal of being a trusted partner of choice within the patient advocacy community.
• Work across all of Amgen's portfolios to support the consistent integration of patient advocacy throughout the organization.
• Ensure alignment, coordination, and operational excellence across markets, contributing to a more connected, responsive, and patient-centered enterprise.
• Drive best-in-class advocacy capabilities across all therapeutic areas, enabling scalable, high-impact engagement with patient communities globally.
• Support collaboration of patient advocacy across Amgen functions, including Medical and Commercial, ensuring alignment with therapeutic area strategies, public health initiatives, and enterprise-wide priorities.
• Serve as the primary liaison to Clinical Program Operations (CPO) and the Patient Engagement, Recruitment & Retention (PER&R) teams to advance the role of advocacy in clinical trial design, recruitment, and retention.
• Support collaboration and coordination with Government Affairs to ensure advocacy efforts align with broader policy initiatives and key external organizational priorities.
• Contribute to the planning and execution of major advocacy and stakeholder events (e.g., stakeholder summits, medical congresses) across U.S. and global markets.
• Lead development and implementation of advocacy capability-building programs to empower patient communities and elevate engagement impact.
• Design and deliver advocacy training, ensuring team understanding of community engagement strategies.
• Support development of internal and external advocacy communications to enhance visibility, alignment, and partner engagement.
• Manage core compliance and regulatory processes for advocacy, communicating relevant Compliance, Legal, Medical and Regulatory updates to the advocacy team.
• Oversee day-to-day advocacy team operations, including budget oversight, resource planning, and process optimization to drive team efficiency.
• Manage relationships with external partners and vendors, ensuring alignment with advocacy strategy and high-quality execution across initiatives.

Benefits

• A 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.
• Flexible work models, including remote and hybrid work arrangements, where possible.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Chemical Manufacturing
• Education Level: Master's degree