Thought Leader Liaison, Director - KRYSTEXXA
About this opportunity
Career Category
Sales & Marketing Operations
Job Description
Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role, you will be a member of the US Marketing Leadership Team for KRYSTEXXA and will lead the strategic direction of the TLL organization for all relevant specialties. The TLL team is a commercial, field-based, customer-facing role focused on the identification and cultivation of relationships with both leading and emerging key opinion leaders (KOLs) as well as leading the development of key customers and speakers. This position will drive alignment to the KRYSTEXXA brand objectives to ensure the team delivers on key priorities in the near- and longer-term. This individual will make strategic commercial recommendations to optimize efforts across the team and ensure optimal use of resources.
The TLL Director will oversee a national team of TLLs and will be responsible for leading, developing, hiring, and training. The TLL Director will be expected to bring insights to help shape brand strategy, anticipate market events and champion cross functional collaboration with internal stakeholders.
This is an opportunity to join a dynamic organization at a pivotal time to shape the future of the TLL organization for KRYSTEXXA. This position will report to the Executive Director, Marketing for KRYSTEXXA.
Key responsibilities include:
Develop the strategic plan for the TLL organization aligning to the overarching brand strategy
Hire, develop, train and lead a high-performing TLL team to ensure clear accountability to achieving/exceeding objectives
Develop aligned MBOs that drive impact and accountability
Demonstrate that the TLL team has a comprehensive understanding of the disease state, competitive landscape and therapeutic management of uncontrolled gout
Generate insights to inform brand strategy
Participate in cross-functional team meetings ensuring knowledge of key priorities and metrics to help drive KRYSTEXXA business objectives
Partner with internal cross-functional teams including Marketing, Medical Affairs, Sales, Patient Services, R&D, Market Access, Site of Care, Advocacy and Commercial Operations in the development and execution of strategies and tactics to ensure long-term adoption of KRYSTEXXA
Understand gaps in the customer experience and provide recommendations for new business initiatives, trainings or interventions necessary to address the gaps
Contribute to the development of the annual brand plan with responsibility for defining and executing key areas within the associated tactical plans
Build and maintain business relationships at the necessary levels in the organization and interact with and/or influence key cross-functional stakeholders
Help the TLL team to execute strategic plans by ensuring the team is focused on key customers/accounts, training and developing speakers and executing on key initiatives
Identify, develop and lead opportunities for key strategic partnerships with targeted and relevant societies and conferences to support insight generation, educational outreach and collaboration
Partner with Marketing to determine what is needed to evolve and develop the Speaker Bureau across specialties
Lead the TLL team to operate to the highest standards in alignment with Amgen’s code of business conduct, ensuring all interactions with KOLs are on-label and consistent with commercial, regulatory, and legal guidelines
Identify opportunities to elevate the impact of the TLL role and build consistency in ways of working, strategic focus, and execution across the RDBU
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.
Basic Qualifications:
Doctorate degree and 4 years of marketing and/or other commercial function experience
Or
Master’s degree and 8 years of marketing and/or other commercial function experience
Or
Bachelor’s degree and 10 years of marketing and/or other commercial function experience
In addition to meeting at least one of the above requirements, you must have at least 4 years experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs, or directing the allocation or resources. Your managerial experience may run concurrently with the required technical experience referenced above.
Preferred Qualifications:
10+ years of relevant work experience with 7+ years of commercial function experience across multiple therapeutic areas
Experience leading a national TLL team strongly preferred
Experience in rheumatology or nephrology strongly preferred
Relationships with rheumatology or nephrology opinion leaders
Biotech/pharmaceutical industry experience required
Strong leadership capabilities and track record of developing team members
Outstanding analytical and data management skills
Excellent organizational skills with keen attention to detail and the abilities to take ownership of issues, to work independently with confidence and to meet deadlines
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Ability to maintain confidentiality and exercise judgment and discretion
Ability to work well with all levels of employees and demonstrate strong collaboration skills
Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
Professional, proactive demeanor
Strong interpersonal skills
Travel Requirements:
Requires approximately 30% travel, including overnight and some weekend commitments
. Salary Range
214,810.30USD -290,625.70 USD
Job details
How this role compares
Computed from every other active Marketing role in our database, not just this employer's listings.
We currently track 93 comparable Director Marketing roles across 17 biopharma companies.
Salary context
48 of 93 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.
Where these roles are based
Top locations among the 93 comparable roles
Seniority mix
93 of 93 peers have a known seniority level
Therapeutic area mix
30 of 93 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden
Similar opportunities
The closest matches from our peer group, ranked by how similar they are, not how well you'd qualify for them -- treat this as market context, not a guaranteed shortlist; a weak match is labeled as one below.
How we calculate "similar"
No black box, no LLM guesswork: a deterministic score built from four normalized attributes. Here's this role's own peer group at different match levels, so you can see the mechanism, not just the result.
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.
0 points, never a partial guess. A role we know almost nothing about beyond its function bottoms out at 25%; it never inflates to 100% just because there's little to compare against. Seniority uses a defined ladder (Associate → Manager → Associate Director → Senior → Principal → Director → Senior Director → Executive/VP) so "Director" and "Senior Director" count as adjacent, but "Director" and "Executive/VP" do not.