Medical Marketing, Sjögren’s Disease - Opinion Leader Engagement & Peer-to-Peer , Senior Manager

Amgen • Oak Park, IL

1d • $149,349 - $202,061

About The Position

Amgen is seeking a Senior Manager to lead U.S. opinion leader (OL) engagement and peer-to-peer (P2P) strategy, the Sjögren’s Disease Speaker Bureau, and marketing-led HCP education. Dazodalibep, an investigational medicine in Phase 3 development, may address significant unmet need in Sjögren’s disease. The role will translate brand priorities into an integrated external engagement model that builds strategic relationships, customer confidence, brand differentiation, and effective field execution as the brand prepares for launch.

Reporting to the Director of Medical Marketing, the Senior Manager will set the strategy for OL engagement and peer-to-peer education, build relationships across the expert community, and convert customer and field insights into launch priorities. The role works in a fast-moving, highly cross-functional environment. Advisory boards and other primary insight-generation forums are led by the Insights & Congress Strategy Senior Manager; this position translates those learnings into engagement plans.

The position manages speaker and education programs, congress-related engagement, content and resources, external partners, and budgets. It uses program data, customer feedback, field insights, and competitive intelligence to evaluate performance and inform brand and tactical planning. Amgen describes its culture as collaborative, innovative, and science based, and offers competitive benefits, career development opportunities, and flexible work models where possible.

Requirements

• Meet one of the stated education and experience combinations: doctorate degree and 2 years of aligned marketing and/or business experience; master’s degree and 4 years; bachelor’s degree and 6 years; associate’s degree and 10 years; or high school diploma/GED and 12 years.
• Strong strategic thinking, analytical rigor, project management, and communication skills.
• Ability to synthesize complex information, lead through influence, and deliver across multiple cross-functional workstreams.
• Ability to clearly articulate strategy and influence stakeholders, with strong communication skills and self-awareness of leadership style.
• Ability to build positive relationships and collaborate effectively in a matrix organization across cross-functional and external partners.

Nice To Haves

• Strong Medical Marketing, opinion leader engagement, and peer-to-peer expertise, including opinion leader mapping and engagement planning, Speaker Bureau operations, speaker training, marketing-led HCP education, promotional content development, and multichannel education.
• Experience leading peer-to-peer and marketing-led opinion leader/HCP engagements end-to-end, including congress-based programs, speaker strategy, faculty management, program design, agency/vendor management, budget oversight, performance optimization, and promotional review through systems such as Veeva PromoMats.
• Rheumatology experience.
• Rare disease experience.
• Launch or in-line brand experience.

Responsibilities

• Set and evolve the U.S. opinion leader engagement and peer-to-peer strategy for Sjögren’s disease, translating brand priorities, customer needs, and the evolving treatment landscape into launch and ongoing engagement priorities.
• Map and segment established and emerging opinion leaders, partnering with Medical Affairs, Field Medical, TLLs, and HCP Marketing on a coordinated, insight-led engagement plan.
• Build trusted relationships across the opinion leader community to deepen customer understanding, identify opportunities, and inform brand and launch decisions.
• Lead the Sjögren’s Disease Speaker Bureau, including speaker recruitment, onboarding, segmentation, activation, and ongoing optimization.
• Manage marketing-led HCP education programs, including speaker programs, Peer Discussion Groups, ITUs, and other approved educational initiatives.
• Lead speaker training and development, including curriculum design, content preparation, faculty training, and ongoing capability building.
• Shape marketing-led opinion leader engagement at congresses, including symposia, product theaters, ITUs, faculty activities, and other approved programs.
• Coordinate priority engagements with TLLs and cross-functional partners, ensuring appropriate follow-up and integration with broader congress plans.
• Partner with the TLL Lead and Commercial Training to shape TLL onboarding and training curriculum for effective customer engagement and field execution.
• Oversee development and lifecycle of peer-to-peer content and resources, guiding agency partners through development, review and approval, rollout, and updates.
• Use program data, customer feedback, field insights, and competitive intelligence to assess performance, identify opportunities, and improve the peer-to-peer and opinion leader engagement approach.
• Synthesize opinion leader, customer, and program insights into actionable input for brand and tactical planning; communicate learnings, opportunities, and risks to cross-functional stakeholders.
• Manage budgets, agencies, and external partners with financial stewardship, prioritization, compliance, and attention to quality.
• Promote scientific curiosity, customer centricity, ownership, collaboration, and innovation while modeling Amgen Values and maintaining high standards across the brand team and cross-functional partnerships.

Benefits

• Comprehensive employee benefits package, including retirement and savings plan with company contributions, group medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts.
• Discretionary annual bonus program, or a sales-based incentive plan for field sales representatives.
• Stock-based long-term incentives.
• Award-winning time-off plans.
• Flexible work models where possible.
• Career development opportunities.
• Health and welfare plans for staff and eligible dependents, and financial plans with opportunities to save for retirement or other goals.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed