Account Manager / Specialty Account Manager - UPLIZNA - Albuquerque, NM (Rare Disease), Neurology

Responsibilities

The Specialty Account Manager is responsible for driving product demand for UPLIZNA by educating healthcare professionals and managing territory accounts. They coordinate with internal teams to address access, reimbursement, and site-of-care needs while meeting annual sales goals.

Requirements

Candidates must have a minimum of a Bachelor's degree and several years of sales experience in the pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical device industry. Preferred qualifications include experience with buy-and-bill models, biologics, and rare disease states.

Skills

• Account Management
• Sales
• Rare Disease Knowledge
• Neurology
• Biotech Sales
• Reimbursement
• Relationship Building
• Strategic Planning
• Territory Management
• Product Promotion
• Clinical Education
• Microsoft Office
• Communication Skills
• Interpersonal Skills
• Compliance

Benefits

• Health Insurance
• Dental Coverage
• Vision Coverage
• Retirement and Savings Plan
• Life Insurance
• Disability Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Annual Bonus Program
• Sales-based Incentive Plan
• Stock-based Long-term Incentives
• Paid Time Off
• Company-wide Shutdowns

About this role

Career Category
Sales
Job Description
HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?
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. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline of medicines to treat cancer, heart disease, inflammatory conditions, rare diseases, and obesity and obesity-related conditions. 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.

Specialty Account Manager - Rare Disease
Live
What you will do
Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will be responsible for representing UPLIZNA to physicians and health care professionals, establishing product sales, and performing total territory account management.
The Specialty Account Manager is responsible for providing account management support to accounts within a specific geography in the designated marketplace with a focus on issues specific to their designated accounts. The SAM acts as central account manager; responsible for driving product demand and coordinating relevant field teams to address account needs.

Develops a comprehensive and effective territory business plan aimed at achieving and exceeding annual sales goals established by sales and business unit leadership.
Promotes UPLIZNA within approved labeling in a comprehensive, fair and ethical manner that is consistent with industry specific and corporate legal and regulatory guidelines.
Addresses issues related to access, pull-through, and reimbursement by coordinating with key stakeholders and matrix team members.
Develops strong customer relationships by better understanding the customer’s needs and goals and communicating those needs and goals to other team members.
Consistently meets or exceeds corporate sales goals.
Communicates territory activity in an accurate and timely manner as directed by management.
Drive product demand among targets through education on disease state and product information.
Provides feedback to sales and business unit leadership, colleagues, and other internal departments about changing environment and results.
Adheres to the Company’s compliance policies and guidelines as well as any other applicable guidelines, including but not limited to the PhRMA code.
Must be able to work closely with patient services and market access team members, and understand their roles, to achieve overall business goals,
Coordinate between accounts and relevant Amgen field teams to support full range of account needs,
Educate healthcare professionals and office staff on site of care options.
Attends medical congresses and society meetings as needed.
Manages efforts within assigned promotional and operational budget.
Maximizes use of approved resources to achieve territory and account level goals
Successfully completes all Company training classes.
Completes administrative duties in an accurate and timely fashion.
Functions as a contributing member of a high-performance team.
Perform such other tasks and responsibilities as requested by the Company.

Win
What we expect of you
We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The Specialty Account Manager we seek is a motivated professional with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications (Account Manager – Level 4)
Bachelor's Degree and 3 years of sales experience within pharmaceutical, biotech or medical device industry or hospital sales experience
OR
Associate degree and 6 years of sales experience within pharmaceutical, biotech or medical device industry or hospital sales experience
OR
High school diploma/GED and 8 years of sales experience within pharmaceutical, biotech or medical device industry or hospital sales experience

Basic Qualifications (Specialty Account Manager – Level 5)
Doctorate degree & 2 years of collective account management experience, sales, & commercial experience
OR
Master’s degree & 6 years of collective account management experience, sales, & commercial experience
OR
Bachelor’s degree & 8 years of collective account management experience, sales, & commercial experience
OR
Associate degree & 10 years of collective account management experience, sales, & commercial experience

Preferred Qualifications:

Buy-and-bill experience with documented success and/or biologic/infusion experience strongly preferred.
Sales experience in rare/specialty disease states preferred.
Site of care and reimbursement experience strongly preferred.
Experience working with institutions and integrated delivery networks preferred.
Pharma account management selling experience essential; must be able to coordinate across field teams to address full range of account needs.
Approximately 80% travel (may vary by territory), including some overnight and weekend commitments.
Proficient in Microsoft Office.
Professional, proactive demeanor.
Strong interpersonal skills.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Thrive
What you can expect of us
As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for our teammates’ professional and personal growth and well-being. The expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is (Account Manager – Level 4) $145,311 - $196,597 (Specialty Account Manager – Level 5) $158,931 - $215,025. In a...

About Amgen

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