Patient Advocacy Manager, Rare Diseases
2 months ago
**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.
Patient Advocacy Manager, Rare Diseases
Reports to: Director, Government Affairs and Advocacy
Location: Canada Remote Worker
**What you will do**
Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will support and advance Amgen Canada’s Rare Disease portfolio help shape solutions that provide equitable, optimal, and timely access for Amgen’s products.
The Patient Advocacy Manager positions Amgen as a reputable and ethical partner with relevant stakeholders, while developing and implementing customized collaborations to deliver measurable results.
The Patient Advocacy Manager collaborates with cross-functional internal stakeholders to develop and implement our partnership strategies in a way that meets the needs of and connects opportunities across the organization.
**Responsibilities**:
- Identify and build long term substantive relationships with advocacy groups and other partners to advance Amgen’s mission to serve patients rare disease and related portfolio based on values of trust, respect and transparency
- Build foundational advocacy landscape reviews for rare diseases and work with internal leadership and cross-functional teams to develop engagement strategies and patient group engagement plan to address patient needs
- Coordinate national and regional stakeholder activity for areas of responsibility
- Adhere to governance model and key principles for partner engagement as established through Global and local compliance SOPs
- Develop an advocacy strategy with each group that is aligned to internal organizational, access and policy objectives while respecting the independence of patient groups in decision-making
- Empower and mobilize advocacy organizations to increase patient education, and facilitate equitable, timely, and optimal access to appropriate therapies
- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to identify projects to include patient perspectives and help support execution of a patient-oriented plan.
- Work with internal communications and corporate affairs colleagues to build external and internal communication plans related to patients
- Provide input and advice to internal strategic plans and align advocacy internal functions to ensure One Amgen voice and priorities are incorporated into engagement plans
- Identifies and understands the drivers behind the official positions, priorities, and networks of influence of key patient and professional associations and advocacy groups to advise Amgen’s business strategies
- Incorporates simple and transparent systems for patient advocacy groups to understand Amgen’s partnership and funding requirements
**What we expect of you**:
**Basic Qualifications**:
Bachelors Degree
**Preferred Qualifications**:
- Experience in health, biotechnology, medical or pharmaceuticals sector
- Experience in managing diverse partners including patient advocates
- Superior communication skills to simplify complex concepts and issues
- Superior interpersonal ability and adaptability, working in a cross-functional and team-oriented framework
- Ability to work in teams, in a complex matrix environment and align with the business around objectives and desired outcomes
- Strong writing ability and project management skills, proficiency in online systems, social media, and corporate campaigns/ sponsorships
- Superior skill in building trusting relationships, to create opportunities to effectively shape and co-design advocacy strategies and partner coalitions to support patients.
- Undergraduate degree in Science, Biotechnology, Health Policy, or Communications is an asset.
- Bilingualism (French & English) is an asset.
**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.
In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards P
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