Amgen USA Inc. Posted June 24, 2026

Senior Oncology Specialist - Sapphire - Boston, MA

Boston, United States Full time
Sales Oncology Senior

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About this opportunity

Career Category

Sales

Job Description

Territory covers Boston, Cambridge, Lawrence, Watertown

Relocation not provided for this role

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.

Senior Oncology Specialist

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will be the liaison to our customers by providing clinical knowledge of our products to medical professionals.

Amgen's medicines treat serious illnesses and our research address diseases with a limited number of treatment options. With a robust and differentiated pipeline, Amgen remains committed to advancing science to dramatically improve people's lives. As a values-based organization with a powerful sense of shared purpose toward our mission: to serve patients, we are actively searching for a Senior Oncology Specialist to deliver on this commitment to patients.

Amgen Oncology is committed to helping patients take on some of the toughest cancers, such as those that have been resistant to drugs, those that progress rapidly through the body and those where limited treatment options exist.

Amgen's supportive care treatments help patients combat certain side effects of strong chemotherapy, and our targeted medicines and immunotherapies focus on more than a dozen different malignancies, ranging from blood cancers to solid tumors. With decades of experience providing therapies for cancer patients, Amgen continues to grow its portfolio of innovative and biosimilar oncology medicines.  Amgen is a values-based organization with a powerful sense of shared purpose.  Our mission is to serve patients.

Amgen supports and encourages our team members to have long term, fulfilling and meaningful careers through challenging assignments, career development, and valuable opportunities such as this Senior Oncology Specialist opportunity in the territory.

You will act as the primary customer contact to provide current and comprehensive clinical knowledge of Amgen's products and effectively communicate the clinical and economic benefits of the products to medical professionals.

Our Senior Oncology Specialists achieve territory sales by utilizing their Oncology background and experience to:

Create and execute on a comprehensive territory plan, which includes delivering branded sales messages, executing planned programs, scheduling and following-up with medical educational programs, and achieving or exceeding sales targets.

Utilize your internal and external relationships to service and manage accounts, including ensuring product access, resolving/triage reimbursement issues, and maintaining product contracts.

Craft an effective marketing strategy to aid in driving sales

Analyze your business effectiveness of sales activities and territory analysis, as well as develop territory plans with your District Manager

Have the passion for our products to sustain that passion through the entire sales cycle while always building our brand and never losing sight of how we serve patients

Partner with other colleagues to share best practices and be in a state of continuous curiosity and learning to help you grow as a Sr. Oncology Specialist

Leverage your passion for Oncology and disease state awareness, Industry, regulatory and competitive changes to deliver agreed results

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The sales professional we seek is a go-getter with these qualifications.

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

Preferred Qualifications:

Preferred experience in Oncology

Three or more years of sales and/or marketing experience within pharmaceutical, biotech, healthcare, or medical device industries.

Product or hospital sales experience in the areas of oncology, nephrology, dermatology, rheumatology and inflammation. Neurology, endocrinology, hepatology, gastroenterology, or infectious diseases, and the diseases and treatments involved with these specialties.

Local Market knowledge.

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.

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.

The expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is $140,465 to $190,041. Actual salary will vary based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan, based on eligibility, comprising of 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 that may include:

A 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

Flexible work models, including remote and hybrid work arrangements, where possible

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Amgen does not have an application deadline for this position; we will continue accepting applications until we receive a sufficient number or select a candidate for the position.

As an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people around the world, Amgen fosters an inclusive environment of diverse, ethical, committed and highly accomplished people who respect each other and live the Amgen values to continue advancing science to serve patients. Together, we compete in the fight against serious disease.

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. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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Job details

Seniority
Senior
Function
Sales
Therapeutic area
Oncology
Location
Boston, 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 447 comparable Senior Sales roles across 39 biopharma companies.

447Comparable roles tracked
425Currently active
39Companies hiring similar roles
21Countries represented

Salary context

218 of 447 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)

Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.

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Highest disclosed · Associate Director, Autoinflammatory Diseases (AD-AID) - IL & WI · Novartis $168,000/yr – $312,000/yr
Peer group range $80,750 – $240,000 (median $125,000)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 447 comparable roles

United States354
China27
Hong Kong14
Vietnam8
Taiwan8
Mexico5

+ 15 more countries

Seniority mix

447 of 447 peers have a known seniority level

Senior436
Associate Director11

Therapeutic area mix

138 of 447 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Oncology48
Cardiovascular / CVRM44
Neuroscience17
Respiratory11
Dermatology & Aesthetics8
Vaccines & Infectious Disease5
Immunology3
Gastroenterology1
Rare Disease1

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How we calculate "similar"

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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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