About the Role
Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients. 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. The Specialty Representative/Senior Specialty Representative acts as the primary customer contact and is responsible for implementing marketing strategy and promoting Amgen products.
Responsibilities
- Provide current and comprehensive knowledge of Amgen’s products and effectively communicate the clinical benefits to medical professionals to drive appropriate utilization of the products.
- Perform as a sales leader to achieve territory sales by delivering branded sales messages, conducting planned programs, scheduling and following up on medical educational programs, and achieving or exceeding sales targets through both in-person and virtual engagement.
- Develop relationships to service and manage accounts, including customizing discussions and customer interactions based on an understanding of customer needs, ensuring product access, resolving or triaging reimbursement issues, and maintaining product contracts.
- Provide feedback on marketing strategy, analyze the business effectiveness of sales activities and territory performance, and develop territory plans in partnership with the District Manager.
- Partner with other colleagues to share best practices and continuously learn and grow as a Specialty Representative or Senior Specialty Representative.
- Demonstrate passion for Amgen’s products and sustain that passion throughout the entire sales cycle, consistently building the brand while keeping patient impact at the forefront.
- Uphold Amgen values by being science-based, competing intensely to win, creating value for patients, staff, and stockholders, acting ethically, fostering trust and respect, ensuring quality, working in teams, and collaborating, communicating, and remaining accountable.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree OR Associate's degree and 4 years of Sales experience OR High school diploma/GED and 6 years of Sales experience (Specialty Representative)
- 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 (Senior Specialty Representative)
- Three or more years of sales experience within pharmaceutical, biotech or medical device industry
- Product or hospital sales experience in the areas of oncology, nephrology, dermatology, rheumatology, inflammation, cardiology, neurology, endocrinology, hepatology, gastroenterology or infectious diseases; and the diseases and treatments involved with these specialties
- Local market knowledge
- Established relationships in the territory
- A Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences or Business Administration
- 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.
Skills
- Clinical knowledge of Amgen's products
- Sales leadership
- Territory sales management
- Branded sales messaging
- Account management
- Customer interaction
- Reimbursement issue resolution
- Marketing strategy feedback
- Business effectiveness analysis
- Territory planning
- Best practice sharing
- Continuous learning
- Sales cycle management
- Brand building
- Patient impact focus
Location
- Middletown, Kingston, Poughkeepsie NY
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Specialty Representative
- Senior Specialty Representative
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree
- Associate's degree
- High school diploma/GED
Salary/Compensations
- $89,880 - $121,602 (Specialty Representative)
- $115,036 - $155,638 (Senior Specialty Representative)
Benefits
- Comprehensive employee benefits package
- Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions
- Group medical, dental and vision coverage
- Life and disability insurance
- Flexible spending accounts
- Discretionary annual bonus program
- Sales-based incentive plan (for field sales representatives)
- Stock-based long-term incentives
- Award-winning time-off plans
- Flexible work models, including remote and hybrid work arrangements, where possible
About the Company
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
- We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
- Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider you without regard to your race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.
