Sr Manager, Patient Advocacy (Uncontrolled Gout)

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Senior Manager, Patient Advocacy– Rare Disease

What you will do

Let’s do this. In this vital role, you will drive patient advocacy efforts focused on uncontrolled gout. Reporting to the Director, Advocacy Relations, you will help activate and maintain the U.S. patient advocacy strategy for uncontrolled gout. This includes maintaining and extending relationships with key patient advocacy groups, forging new alliances, and ensuring alignment with the broader Gout business unit's objectives. They will ensure that strategy and approach lines up to the overarching commercial strategy.

You will be part of a dynamic and collaborative advocacy team that works across therapeutic areas, geographies, and initiatives. Your mission is to amplify the patient voice, co-create meaningful solutions, and ensure that the real-world needs of people living with uncontrolled gout are represented in strategic decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a key contributor to Amgen’s U.S. Advocacy strategy and execution for uncontrolled Gout, including strategic programming, awareness month activations, patient events and national and/or local engagement opportunities with the advocacy community.

• Serves as primary relationship manager to gout related patient groups, cultivating high-trust, compliant, partnerships based on shared goals in awareness, education, and access.

• Collaborates cross-functionally to ensure advocacy organization insights inform medical, commercial, development, and policy strategies for Gout/rare disease.

• Represents Amgen in relevant coalitions and forums to elevate the Gout community’s voice and needs.

• Drives high-quality initiatives and shared goals to empower Gout patients to take a more active role in treatment decision-making with their HCPs.

• Proactively identify emerging trends, issues, and community needs related to uncontrolled gout, and formulate timely, collaborative responses.

• Support awareness, education, and empowerment efforts across the patient and caregiver communities.

• Represent the patient perspective internally, especially during cross-functional planning with R&D, Medical Affairs, Commercial, Communications, Legal, Market Access, and Government/Public Affairs.

• Champion inclusion, equity, and diversity of thought in all advocacy strategies.

• Create and execute collaboration plans with advocacy groups on mutually aligned goals, including public health and clinical education campaigns.

• Organize patient feedback mechanisms to ensure ongoing alignment with advocacy and overall business priorities.

• Travel up to 40% as needed, to engage in internal meetings, advocacy meetings, and conferences.

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we use our unique experiences to serve patients. The successful candidate will bring a deep understanding of advocacy, communication, and strategic collaboration.

Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree and 2 years of experience in patient advocacy, consumer marketing, communications, government affairs or public health

• OR Master’s degree and 4 years of relevant experience in patient advocacy, consumer marketing, communications, government affairs or public health

• OR Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of relevant experience in patient advocacy, consumer marketing, communications, government affairs or public health

• OR Associate’s degree and 10 years of relevant experience in patient advocacy, consumer marketing, communications, government affairs or public health

• OR High school diploma / GED and 12 years of relevant experience in patient advocacy, consumer marketing, communications, government affairs or public health

Preferred Qualifications:

• Minimum of 3 years of experience working in rheumatology and/or nephrology, ideally in relation to chronic or inflammatory diseases.

• Experience developing and leading patient advocacy programs in patient communities with high unmet need and a complex diagnostic journey.

• Prior experience in the pharmaceutical, biotech, CRO, or research sectors.

• Track record of scaling strategic advocacy engagement for a late-stage commercial product.

• Previous experience of working in a disease state with evolving landscape of evolving therapeutic options.

• Ability to manage multiple projects and coordinate across internal and external partners.

• Strong project management, interpersonal, and communication skills.

• A strategic, solutions-focused mindset with a collaborative and inclusive work style.

What you can expect of us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for your professional and personal growth and well-being. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we’ll support your journey every step of the way.

The expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is posted. Actual salary will vary based on several factors including but not limited to, relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan, based on eligibility, comprising of health and welfare plans for staff and eligible dependents, financial plans with opportunities to save towards retirement or other goals, work/life balance, and career development opportunities that may include:

• 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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Application deadline

Amgen does not have an application deadline for this position; we will continue accepting applications until we receive a sufficient number or select a candidate for the position.

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