Advocacy & Stakeholder Relations Manager or Senior Manager

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.

Advocacy & Stakeholder Relations Manager or Sr. Manager

Reports to: Government Affairs Director

Location: Mississauga Flexible Commuter

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. The Advocacy and Stakeholder Relations Manager or Senior Manager will be responsible for:

• Patient and professional group relations strategic planning and management
• Building advocacy related partner relations plans with a focus on new products and issues management
• Representing Canadian advocacy on global/regional teams
• Lead strategies and relationships with relevant patient and professional advocacy groups, organizations, societies
• Build long term relationships with partners to support identified therapeutic areas
• Develop strategic plan based on patient advocacy engagement for pre-commercialization-stage and in-line products as well as policy
• Serve as a key relationship manager with patient advocacy organizations for early stage assets and ensure productive ongoing partnerships
• Partner collaboratively with business functions (including, but not limited to: Commercial, Medical, Policy and Government Affairs) to determine opportunities and needs for advocacy engagement
• Coordinate related national and regional partner activity
• Establish governance model and key principles for partner engagement
• Develop an advocacy strategy with each group that is aligned to marketing, reimbursement and policy strategies and objectives
• Develop non-financial metrics for measuring relationship success to determine the effectiveness of partner relations
• Develop a formal goal-review process to identify return on partner relations
• Build strong relationships with internal Amgen “partners” to align functional strategies and form close partnerships
• Oversee Advocacy budget activity from both marketing and reimbursement budgets
• Develop strong cross-functional relationships with all interested parties internally, and become an integral member of brand, VA&P and relevant strategic decision-making teams
• Align and form close communications between brand/marketing, public affairs and reimbursement

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek is an innovative leader with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Science, Communications, Business or related field
• 10 + years of experience in partner relations, with a deep understanding of the current Canadian pharmaceutical/biotechnology reimbursement and regulatory landscape, along with an established network of relationships with key agencies and partner/advocacy groups

Preferred Qualifications:

• Solid strategic capabilities that enable the individual to prospectively identify critical threats, opportunities and trends, to formulate insightful and effective action plans, and to make the appropriate trade-offs to balance short and long term considerations
• The ability to work effectively in a complex cross functional work environment characterized by matrixed team management and informal lines of authority
• Proven leadership and the ability and desire to mentor colleagues
• Superior verbal and written communications skills in order to effectively convey complex concepts and issues at the highest levels of partner groups and industry
• Superior influence and persuasion skills necessary to build partner coalitions in advancing and defending Amgen’s commercial and policy agenda through partners in the complex multi-stakeholder healthcare environment
• Record of accomplishment in supporting product launches and public reimbursement through patient and professional advocacy strategies in challenging circumstances and advancing important policy issues
• Familiarity with biotechnology, basic pharmacology and therapeutics
• Strong interest in health policy and biopharmaceutical policy landscape in Canada

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.

Amgen is proud to have been recognized as one of LinkedIn Top 25 Companies in Canada for career growth. Click HERE for more details. 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.

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards Plans that are aligned with local industry standards

Apply now and make a lasting impact with the Amgen team.

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As an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people around the world, Amgen fosters an inclusive environment of diverse, ethical, committed and highly accomplished people who respect each other and live the Amgen values to continue advancing science to serve patients. Together, we compete in the fight against serious disease.

Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

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