Senior Manager, Payer Marketing, Rare Disease (Remote)

Amgen • Thousand Oaks, CA

27d • Remote

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. 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. Senior Manager, Payer Marketing, Rare What you will do Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will support the US Value & Access team's mission to secure coverage for our brands and to support patient access. In a dynamic healthcare environment, the Payer Marketing team is ready to meet the evolving needs of our payer customers. This unique position will join a dynamic team focused on strengthening the payer value proposition to better develop and drive messaging during key strategic value discussions with those responsible for the selection of medications for coverage or reimbursement. The Senior Manager, Payer Marketing will support the development and execution of the value marketing strategy for products within the general medicine and/or inflammation. They will lead the development of tools/resources to communicate the disease burden, clinical efficacy and safety, and healthcare economic messaging to best position Amgen products to key stakeholders within the payer marketplace. Additionally, you will lead US-RWE workstreams to align with Global, HEOR, CfOR, Medical, and Brand for their specific brands. The objective of these RWE workstreams will be to contribute to study design and objectives to: Defend payer coverage Improve payer quality of coverage Support growth of patient identification and treatment (e.g., via consistent with label design of HEOR/CfOR RWE)

Requirements

• Doctorate degree and 2 years of directly related experience OR Master’s degree and 4 years of directly related experience OR Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of directly related experience OR Associate’s degree and 10 years of directly related experience OR High school diploma / GED and 12 years of directly related experience

Nice To Haves

• Strong business acumen, analytical skills, and strategic thinking ability
• Strong marketer to synthesize complex clinical and economic messaging into a differentiated value story
• Strong problem solving and analytic skills to provide advice in developing and shaping RWE and HCEI analysis
• Solid understanding of US health care system, US Payers and reimbursement
• Experience in pharmaceutical/biotech industry

Responsibilities

• Align and/or lead cross-functional workstreams to support business initiatives for payers
• Develop value narratives by working cross functionally with Brand Marketing, Coverage & Pricing (C&P) team, Market Access (MAT), Medical Value & Populations Health (MVPH), Health Economics Outcomes Research (HEOR), Center for Observational Research (CfOR) and U.S. Medical teams
• Lead regular US RWE meetings to develop and evaluate RWE studies that will support US payer objectives (as well as brand goals)
• Develop key value resources that incorporate DSE, clinical, pharmacoeconomic, and real-world evidence for use with payers to position the value of covering and utilizing Amgen’s products
• Partner with internal legal, regulatory, and medical to obtain approval of core resources and training via the Materials Approval and Compliance (MAC) process
• Effectively rollout and train the Market Access team (field account executives) and/or Key Account Managers (KAMs) on programs and resources and provide support to field staff to address questions.
• Develop and manage the payer marketing budget for select products
• 5-10% travel may be required

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: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree