Senior Oncology Specialist - Sapphire - Orange County, CA

Amgen • Los Angeles, CA

5d • $1,140,465 - $190,041 • Remote

About The Position

Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients. Amgen’s shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do. Since 1980, Amgen has helped pioneer the world of biotech in its fight against the world’s toughest diseases. With its focus on four therapeutic areas –Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease– Amgen reaches 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 Amgen researches, manufactures, and delivers innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives. Amgen's 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 Amgen and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career. In this vital role, you will be the liaison to our customers by providing clinical knowledge of our products to medical professionals. Amgen's medicines treat serious illnesses and its research addresses diseases with a limited number of treatment options. With a robust and differentiated pipeline, Amgen remains committed to advancing science to dramatically improve people's lives. As a values-based organization with a powerful sense of shared purpose toward its mission: to serve patients, Amgen is actively searching for a Senior Oncology Specialist to deliver on this commitment to patients. Amgen Oncology is committed to helping patients take on some of the toughest cancers, such as those that have been resistant to drugs, those that progress rapidly through the body and those where limited treatment options exist. Amgen's supportive care treatments help patients combat certain side effects of strong chemotherapy, and its targeted medicines and immunotherapies focus on more than a dozen different malignancies, ranging from blood cancers to solid tumors. With decades of experience providing therapies for cancer patients, Amgen continues to grow its portfolio of innovative and biosimilar oncology medicines. Amgen is a values-based organization with a powerful sense of shared purpose. Its mission is to serve patients. Amgen supports and encourages its team members to have long term, fulfilling and meaningful careers through challenging assignments, career development, and valuable opportunities such as this Senior Oncology Specialist opportunity in the territory. Amgen is committed to unlocking the potential of biology for patients suffering from serious illnesses by discovering, developing, manufacturing and delivering innovative human therapeutics. This approach begins by using tools like advanced human genetics to unravel the complexities of disease and understand the fundamentals of human biology. Amgen focuses on areas of high unmet medical need and leverages its biologics manufacturing expertise to strive for solutions that improve health outcomes and dramatically improve people's lives. A biotechnology pioneer since 1980, Amgen has grown to be one of the world's leading independent biotechnology companies, has reached millions of patients around the world and is developing a pipeline of medicines with breakaway potential.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 3 years of sales experience and/or clinical experience in healthcare / scientific field that is not sales related OR Associate degree and 6 years of sales experience and/or clinical experience in healthcare / scientific field that is not sales related OR High school diploma / GED and 8 years of sales experience and/or clinical experience in healthcare / scientific field that is not sales related
• Adaptability with our Core Competencies: Planning and Organizing; Leveraging Business, Industry, and Technical Knowledge; Communicating with Impact; Driving for Results; and Cultivating Internal and External Relationships.

Nice To Haves

• Preferred experience in Oncology
• Three or more years of sales and/or marketing experience within pharmaceutical, biotech, healthcare, or medical device industries.
• Product or hospital sales experience in the areas of oncology, nephrology, dermatology, rheumatology and inflammation.
• Neurology, endocrinology, hepatology, gastroenterology, or infectious diseases, and the diseases and treatments involved with these specialties.
• Local Market knowledge.
• A Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences or Business Administration.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary customer contact to provide current and comprehensive clinical knowledge of Amgen's products and effectively communicate the clinical and economic benefits of the products to medical professionals.
• Create and execute on a comprehensive territory plan, which includes delivering branded sales messages, executing planned programs, scheduling and following-up with medical educational programs, and achieving or exceeding sales targets.
• Utilize internal and external relationships to service and manage accounts, including ensuring product access, resolving/triage reimbursement issues, and maintaining product contracts.
• Craft an effective marketing strategy to aid in driving sales.
• Analyze business effectiveness of sales activities and territory analysis, as well as develop territory plans with your District Manager.
• Have the passion for our products to sustain that passion through the entire sales cycle while always building our brand and never losing sight of how we serve patients.
• Partner with other colleagues to share best practices and be in a state of continuous curiosity and learning to help you grow as a Sr. Oncology Specialist.
• Leverage your passion for Oncology and disease state awareness, Industry, regulatory and competitive changes to deliver agreed results.

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: High school or GED