Amgen USA Inc. Posted July 16, 2026

Rare Disease - Thought Leader Liaison – Southeast

Orlando, United States Full time
Sales Rare Disease

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About this opportunity

Career Category

Marketing

Job Description

Coverage of Southeast: Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee

HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?

If you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. At Amgen, our shared mission, to serve patients, drives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies. We are global collaborators who achieve together, researching, manufacturing, and delivering ever-better products that reach over 10 million patients worldwide. It’s time for a career you can be proud of.

Rare Disease Vasculitis Thought Leader Liaison – Sr. Manager (Southeast)

Live

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. This critical role will focus on maintaining and building relationships with external Opinion Leaders and large medical centers involved in vasculitis, and the broader Rheumatology and Nephrology provider landscape.

The Thought Leader Liaison (TLL) Sr. Manager will report into the Director of Professional and Marketplace Engagement and will join the National team of Rare Disease Inflammation Thought Leader Liaisons in the Inflammation Business Unit. The TLL will be a critical member of the Brand Team and will coordinate closely with field teams. The TLL will be responsible for the following, but not limited to:

OL / Strategic Customer Development and Management

Identify, cultivate, and maintain professional relationships with established and up-and-coming regional Opinion Leaders in ANCA Vasculitis (Rheumatology / Nephrology / other specialties diagnosing and managing vasculitis)

Support deep engagement of key customers (ex. Navigating IDNs / Centers of Excellence, Professional Organizations, Foundations/Patient Organizations)

Manage OL Speaker bureau relationships including supporting speaker training, compliance, and product theater speaker management

Manage regional speaker bureau, including providing speaker recommendations

Identify, map, and manage relationships with key national Vasculitis Centers and other large treatment facilities (includes the detailed mapping of referral patterns, key relationships, and influencers)

Coordinate and leading all one-to-one exchanges between brand team and KOLs across key initiatives and events

Congress / Key Event Management

Attend and manage brand activity at key regional and national inflammation conferences (may encompass Rheumatology, Nephrology, Pulmonology), including managing product theaters, and other ancillary brand activities

Manage overall regional sponsorship budget, including working with organizations to secure sponsorships, and owning regional congress plan

Coordinate executive meetings with OLs at national conferences

Complete all necessary conference and speaker contract requirements in a timely manner

Coordinate with marketing to ensure all congress materials are delivered on time

Coordinate with sales, marketing, and medical affairs

Work cross functionally to drive and develop aligned external engagement strategies across multiple cross functional teams including medical, training, marketing, and sales

Coordinate closely with the sales team to ensure alignment with conference OL engagement plan as well as other OL/account engagement

Provide customer and market insights back to the marketing team and provide input into P2P development, advisory boards, and strategy

Partner with the HCP Marketing team to develop advisory board strategy, content, advisory recommendations, and attend advisory boards as appropriate

Provide insights summary from key congresses to the marketing team

Drive key initiatives

Leading peer-to-peer marketing initiatives such as advisory boards, speaker bureau & product theater content development

Shaping team content development needs include disease state

Participate in strategic discussions with brand team

Additional Information:

Business travel, by air or car, is regularly required (50% - 65%)

Willingness to work evenings and select weekends is required

Located near a hub airport is recommended

Win

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The marketing professional we seek is a manager with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree and 2 years of marketing, sales, relevant clinical or medical experience

Or

Master's degree and 4 years of marketing, sales, relevant clinical or medical experience

Or

Bachelor's degree and 6 years of marketing, sales, relevant clinical or medical experience

Or

Associates degree and 10 years of marketing, sales, relevant clinical or medical experience

Or

High school diploma / GED and 12 years of marketing, sales, relevant clinical or medical experience

Preferred Qualifications:

5-10 years of experience working in Rheumatology, Nephrology, Rare Disease in customer facing roles (sales, district manager, medical affairs/MSL, marketing opinion leader management, etc.)

Experience developing and executing HCP key customer strategies

Proven ability to develop and execute KOL mapping and plans, as well as building KOL advocacy in the rheumatology, nephrology, or vasculitis space

Prior experience in thought leader engagement, regional marketing, sales, medical affairs, or sales leadership

Clinical, technical, and scientific knowledge and proficiency in complex disease states

Existing relationships with key customers (opinion leaders, centers of excellence etc.)

Strong relationship building skills, with proven ability to build and maintain lasting relationships with OLs and navigate strategic accounts (Integrated Delivery Networks, Academic Medical Centers, Centers of Excellence, etc.)

Ability to exercise strong decision-making skills and live up to the highest ethical standards.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills including confident executive presence

Ability to build productive partnerships and collaborate effectively in a matrix organization.

Ability to creatively address

problems in an organized, systematic way

High degree of organizational awareness, ability to connect the dots to understand all the interdependency and big picture

Exceptional critical thinking to help identify educational gaps, analyze findings, and make recommendations while articulating next steps

Strong understanding of legal and regulatory environment in pharmaceutical promotions, pharma industry guidelines and other compliance-related issues

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 annual salary range for this opportunity in the U.S. is $175,831.00USD - $237,889.00 USD

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan comprising health and welfare plans for staff and eligible dependents, financial plans with opportunities to save towards retirement or other goals, work/life balance, and career development opportunities including:

Comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions, group medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts.

A discretionary annual bonus program, or for field sales representatives, a sales-based incentive plan

Stock-based long-term incentives

Award-winning time-off plans and bi-annual company-wide shutdowns

Flexible work models, including remote work arrangements, where possible

Apply now

for a career that defies imagination

In our quest to serve patients above all else, Amgen is the first to imagine, and the last to doubt. Join us.

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. Salary Range

175,831.00USD -237,889.00 USD

Job details

Seniority
Not listed
Function
Sales
Therapeutic area
Rare Disease
Location
Orlando, United States
Employment type
Full time

How this role compares

Computed from every other active Sales role in our database, not just this employer's listings.

We currently track 2393 comparable Sales roles across 138 biopharma companies.

2393Comparable roles tracked
2162Currently active
138Companies hiring similar roles
65Countries represented

Salary context

636 of 2393 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)

Peers share this role's job function. This posting doesn't list a seniority level, so peers aren't narrowed by seniority either -- the range below may span more levels than usual.

This roleSubject Not listed on this posting
Lowest disclosed · Patient Coordinator 1 (PSC) · Novartis $37,200/yr – $69,200/yr
Highest disclosed · Vice President, Head of Oncology Sales · Novartis $274,400/yr – $509,600/yr
Peer group range $53,200 – $392,000 (median $135,500)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 2393 comparable roles

United States1304
China403
India71
Japan56
Taiwan54
Germany50

+ 59 more countries

Seniority mix

956 of 2393 peers have a known seniority level

Senior437
Manager420
Director68
Associate Director11
Intern/Fellow/Postdoc9
Associate6
Executive/VP5

Therapeutic area mix

650 of 2393 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Oncology186
Cardiovascular / CVRM135
Neuroscience118
Dermatology & Aesthetics47
Vaccines & Infectious Disease41
Respiratory38
Immunology32
Rare Disease29
Gastroenterology20
Ophthalmology4

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Every comparison starts from the same 100-point budget: 25 for working in the same function, 40 for the same therapeutic area, 20 for the same or adjacent seniority, 15 for the same country. A dimension we can't confirm on both sides contributes nothing, never a guess, never a free pass.

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