Director, Market Access Employer Engagement

Amgen • Thousand Oaks, CA

11h

About The Position

Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients. 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. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline of medicines to treat cancer, heart disease, inflammatory conditions, rare diseases, and obesity and obesity-related conditions. 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 4 years of Sales, Marketing and/or Payor experience OR Master’s degree and 8 years of Sales, Marketing and/or Payor experience OR Bachelor’s degree and 10 years of Sales, Marketing and/or Payor experience
• Deep expertise in U.S. market access , with strong experience in employer and/or payer engagement
• Proven success influencing coverage, reimbursement, or benefit design decisions
• Experience supporting product launches or major access inflection points
• Strong understanding of obesity, cardiometabolic, or specialty market dynamics
• Ability to operate at both strategic and execution levels , leading through influence
• Executive presence with experience engaging C-suite or senior external stakeholders
• Comfortable with ambiguity and a fast-paced, highly dynamic environment
• Must be a team leader with demonstrated success in inspiring and leading cross-functional business initiatives
• Translates strategy into execution across multiple stakeholders and teams
• Influences decisions beyond immediate function, including external partners
• Leads through others, aligning cross-functional efforts to achieve business outcomes
• Contributes to strategic planning while driving operational excellence

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the national strategy to expand employer coverage of GLP-1 therapies for obesity and related conditions, and other product(s) as assigned
• Identify, segment and prioritize key employer stakeholders, including Jumbo Employers, HR/Benefit leaders, Employer Benefit Consultants, and employer coalitions for tailored, routine obesity engagement and other therapeutic areas/products, as warranted.
• Shape employer-focused value propositions that communicate clinical outcomes, economic impact, and long-term healthcare savings.
• Partner with HEOR teams to leverage outcomes data and real-world evidence (RWE) to support employer coverage and access decisions
• Drive initiatives to reduce formulary access, clinical, and economic barriers to access
• Serve as a key market access leader supporting launch planning, execution, and post-launch optimization
• Hire employer market account team and guide employer engagement priorities and communications
• Support compliant development of employer-specific training resources, engagement materials, and B2B promotional strategies
• Partner with Sales Leadership to strengthen customer engagement strategies and sales enablement efforts.
• Anticipate access barriers and design strategies to accelerate coverage adoption
• Partner cross-functionally (Brand, HEOR, Medical, Policy, Sales, Legal, Regulatory) to ensure aligned and differentiated value delivery
• Establish and maintain executive-level relationships with employers, employer benefits consultants, and national coalitions,
• Partner with employer groups and national employer benefit consultants to shape obesity management as a chronic disease requiring treatment and proactively influence obesity benefit design strategies
• Represent Amgen in high-impact external industry forums, customer engagements, and policy discussions to influence benefit design trends, improved access, and policy direction
• Manage performance against business objectives, key performance indicators, and coverage expansion targets
• Translate employer insights and competitive market intel into actionable recommendations for the account management team, cross-functional teams
• Lead development of account strategies that align access, contracting, and value to support a positive Patient journey
• Monitor employer market trends, market segmentation changes, legislative changes, and competitive class dynamics to proactively identify growth opportunities
• Provide strategic direction to field teams to ensure consistent and high-impact engagement
• Integrate employer insights into brand strategy, access planning, and POA development

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: Director
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree