Specialty Account Manager, Rheumatology-San Jose, CA

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** Career Category
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** Job Description**## 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.
** Specialty Account Manager, Rheumatology**##
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* *** What you will do
** Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will be responsible for representing Amgen products to physicians and healthcare professionals, establishing product sales, and performing total territory account management. This includes providing disease information and education to medical professionals and all external customers involved in the care of patients.
* Consistently achieve assigned sales objectives through the promotion of patient-centered disease and product education to HCPs to improve patient care while adhering to corporate compliance guidelines
* Implement goals of the marketing plan through execution of strategic account business plan.
* Demonstrated experience working in a matrix environment, which will encompass Case Managers, Medical Affairs, Patient access team, and other parties as deemed necessary.
* Effectively utilize all available resources and programs including peer to peer education and cross functional partners within the company to address identified knowledge gaps
* Proven ability to navigate and identify opportunities through the healthcare landscape including academic institutions, IDNs, accountable care organizations, private practices, and community hospital systems
* Establish productive business relationships with key local, regional, and national KOLs within the geographical coverage area and assigned therapeutic areas.
* Develops and maintains a high-level, in-depth disease and therapeutic clinical and scientific knowledge.
* Utilize a consultative selling approach involving a highly technical, solution oriented selling technique enabling the specialist to meet the needs of healthcare professionals Rare Disease patients.
* Execute all of the above with a strong understanding and adherence to compliance and corporate policies including appropriate documentation and reporting.##
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* *** What we expect of you
** We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek is a person with these qualifications.##
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* Basic Qualifications:

** Doctorate degree & 2 years of collective account management experience, sales, & commercial experience## OrMaster’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##
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* Preferred Qualifications:

*** Bachelor's degree strongly preferred;
Graduate business or healthcare related degree preferred.
* 7+ experience in biotech, specialty pharmaceutical, or rare disease sales.
* 3+ years of experience in one or more of the following:* ----Rare disease/orphan drug experience; ultra-orphan preferred;
Rare disease launch experience strongly preferred* ----Rheumatology experience preferred
* At least 3 years of in office injection/infusion sales selling a product that is a medical benefit requiring extensive coordination with patient access services.
* Previous experience…