Rare Disease Key Account Manager - Rheumatology-Nephrology - Southwest

Amgen•San Antonio, TX

About The Position

The Rare Disease Key Account Manager’s goal is to reduce time to diagnosis, increase appropriate patient identification, and improve speed to treatment by partnering with stakeholders in targeted accounts focused on therapeutic areas where Amgen’s Rare Disease products are indicated. The role addresses operational and access challenges related to appropriate therapies across assigned health systems, specialty clinics, infusion centers, and other sites of care, supporting rare disease business growth and a reliable patient and customer experience. The Key Account Manager identifies account-level barriers and executes strategies to enable appropriate access to therapy, strengthen clinic readiness, optimize buy-and-bill operations, and support patients throughout the rare disease treatment journey. The role coordinates with internal partners and customer stakeholders, develops account plans, supports compliant contracting, and provides actionable field insights. The position requires approximately 40–60% travel within an assigned geography for customer meetings, internal planning, and industry events.

Requirements

Doctorate degree and 2 years of sales experience and/or related account management experience; or master’s degree and 4 years; or bachelor’s degree and 6 years; or associate’s degree and 10 years; or high school diploma/GED and 12 years.
Approximately 40–60% travel within the assigned geography, including customer meetings, internal planning, and industry events.

Nice To Haves

Experience working with complex provider accounts, specialty clinics, health systems, infusion centers, or similar sites of care.
Experience in rare disease, specialty therapeutics, biologics, infusion, or other complex buy-and-bill environments.
Knowledge of reimbursement, coding, benefit verification, prior authorization, and clinic revenue-cycle considerations.
Prior contracting or account negotiation experience, or experience with IDNs, GPOs, specialty pharmacies, distributors, or alternate sites of care.
Understanding of clinic operations and site-of-care decision drivers.
Strong business acumen and ability to interpret account economics, reimbursement information, and performance data.
Executive communication, problem-solving, and influence skills across clinical and administrative stakeholders.
Ability to manage competing priorities, operate independently, and execute through cross-functional teams.
A patient-centered, compliant approach to customer engagement and solution development.

Responsibilities

Assess assigned accounts to identify access, operational, economic, and care-delivery barriers affecting appropriate rare disease therapy utilization and time to diagnosis or treatment.
Develop and execute account plans aligned with customer priorities, portfolio objectives, patient access, site-of-care needs, and treatment continuity.
Build stakeholder maps and engage clinical leaders, administrators, pharmacy, finance, revenue cycle, procurement, infusion operations, and care coordinators through proactive calls.
Translate account data and insights into opportunity hypotheses, action plans, and site performance reviews.
Lead commercial contracting opportunities for assigned accounts, coordinate internal approvals, and support compliant negotiation and execution.
Identify and address barriers involving contracting, customer membership, ordering, distribution channels, formulary or pathway decisions, and product availability.
Partner with market access, pricing, trade, reimbursement, and legal/compliance colleagues to support durable access solutions.
Support account business reviews covering contract performance, patient access, operational readiness, and appropriate commercial opportunities.
Evaluate buy-and-bill workflows, including acquisition, inventory, benefit verification, prior authorization, coding, billing, payment, and financial risk points.
Work with clinics and internal partners to improve reimbursement readiness, inventory practices, ordering processes, and patient financial navigation.
Engage sites of care through education, workflow support, and coordinated resources to strengthen readiness to initiate and maintain therapy.
Help customers identify operational gaps that may delay treatment, including referral handoffs, scheduling, infusion capacity, care coordination, and post-initiation follow-up.
Coordinate field execution with sales, medical, patient services, market access, trade, analytics, and brand partners.
Provide timely field insights on customer needs, competitive dynamics, reimbursement trends, and operational barriers to matrix colleagues.
Monitor account performance and adapt priorities to meet agreed objectives in a compliant manner.
Maintain accurate account plans, account affiliations, activity records, and opportunity documentation in required systems.
Lead matrix planning and follow-through for priority account initiatives, clarifying partner roles, decision points, owners, and timelines.

Benefits

Health and welfare plans for staff and eligible dependents.
Financial plans with opportunities to save toward retirement or other goals.
Career development opportunities.
Comprehensive employee benefits package.
Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions.
Group medical, dental, and vision coverage.
Life and disability insurance.
Flexible spending accounts.
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.