Medical Value Access Director - National Accounts, Kaiser
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 Medical Science Liaison and/or Payer/PBM experience
- Master’s degree and 7 years of Medical Science Liaison and/or Payer/PBM experience
- Bachelor’s degree and 9 Medical Science Liaison and/or Payer/PBM experience
Nice To Haves
- Pharm.D., Ph.D., M.D., D.O. or Master’s Degree (Other Doctoral & Master’s Degrees considered)
- ≥ 5 years of related Payer/PBM/Pathways/Trade/Specialty Pharmacy customer experience
- ≥ 2 years Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) experience
- Evidence of significant impact & rapport with Payer accounts
- Leadership experience & demonstrated ability to inspire, coach & develop talent
- Deep knowledge of managed markets, pharmacoeconomics, population health and broad healthcare & healthcare policy/legislation trends
- Excellent strategic perspective, communication and presentation skills
- Strong background of partnering with Medical & Commercial cross-functional colleagues to provide value to customers
Responsibilities
- Lead therapeutically aligned activities to develop strategic objectives & tactics in collaboration with Medical for National Accounts and prioritized regional accounts.
- Develop and maintain professional relationships with targeted Payer, Pathways, GPO, Trade & Specialty Pharmacy population health decision makers relative to the Amgen portfolio.
- Lead continuing integration of comprehensive value & total cost of care models with Field Medical organization to enhance the level of internal/external payer & pathways engagements.
- Liaise and support strategic relationship between targeted National and Regional payer/pathways executives and senior Amgen executives.
- Synthesize customer insights to inform short- and long-term strategy and integrate customer-specific research needs into evidence generation plans.
- Serve as Medical Value & Access lead contact for US V&A, GV&A, Government Affairs, CfOR, and Scientific Communications regarding medical value and access content.
- Participate in strategy discussions with Market Access & Trade for payer engagements.
- Lead internal training initiatives to support comprehensive value across integrated Field Medical team and Scientific Communications.
- Serve as Oncology/Rare/Orphan Disease strategic point of contact to assigned Commercial National & Regional account directors to embed Medical strategic engagement priorities.
- Lead the review of (and provide input when clinically appropriate) on utilization/prior authorization & criteria for use with medical policies developed by the national Payer account as well as downstream policies to ensure appropriate clinically supported alignment.
- Support Managed Care/Payer advisory boards, congresses and professional association meetings.
- Serve as Principal Medical point of contact with Government Affairs on key policy issues & legislation related to improving patient access and health outcomes.
- Support understanding of HCEI communication principles across the medical organization and adherence to relevant SOPs.
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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
