Territory Coverage: Los Angeles (Chinatown, Koreatown, South Los Angeles)
Relocation is not offered 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. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline of medicines to treat cancer, heart disease, inflammatory conditions, rare diseases, and obesity and obesity-related conditions. 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.
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What you will do
Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will be the connection to our customers by providing clinical knowledge of our products to medical professionals and helping them navigate the complex payer environment.
We are actively searching for a Specialty Representative or Senior Specialty Representative to deliver on our commitment 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 opportunity to craft a long-term career with Amgen. The Specialty/Senior Specialty Representative acts as the primary customer contact and is responsible for implementing marketing strategy and promoting Amgen products as led by the District Manager.
Responsibilities include:
Provide current and comprehensive knowledge of Amgen’s products and effectively communicate the clinical benefits to medical professionals to drive appropriate utilization of the products.
Perform as a sales leader to achieve territory sales by delivering branded sales messages, conducting planned programs, scheduling and following up on medical educational programs, and achieving or exceeding sales targets through both in-person and virtual engagement.
Develop relationships to service and manage accounts, including customizing discussions and customer interactions based on an understanding of customer needs, ensuring product access, resolving or triaging reimbursement issues, and maintaining product contracts.
Provide feedback on marketing strategy, analyze the business effectiveness of sales activities and territory performance, and develop territory plans in partnership with the District Manager.
Partner with other colleagues to share best practices and continuously learn and grow as a Specialty Representative or Senior Specialty Representative.
Demonstrate passion for Amgen’s products and sustain that passion throughout the entire sales cycle, consistently building the brand while keeping patient impact at the forefront.
Uphold Amgen values by being science-based, competing intensely to win, creating value for patients, staff, and stockholders, acting ethically, fostering trust and respect, ensuring quality, working in teams, and collaborating, communicating, and remaining accountable.
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.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications - Specialty Representative:
Bachelor's Degree OR:
Associate's degree and 4 years of Sales experience OR:
High school diploma/GED and 6 years of Sales experience:
Basic Qualifications - Senior Specialty Representative:
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:
Two or more years of sales experience within the pharmaceutical, biotech or medical device industry.:
Product or hospital sales experience in cardiovascular or diabetes therapeutic areas, including knowledge of the associated diseases and treatments.:
Local market knowledge:
Established relationships in the territory:
A Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences or Business Administration:
What you can expect of us:
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 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.:
Work for Warriors is a no-cost employment program of the California Military Department for Service Members, Veterans, and military family members. The Veteran Staffing Consultant for Amgen is Shayal Prasad.
Making a positive difference, a dedication to help others and pride in what we do: These qualities unite military veterans and Amgen professionals. When you join the team, you can expect full support in your transition and more opportunities to develop your leadership skills. Through our Veterans Resource Group, you can connect with a network of military service colleagues who can help guide your next step.
We invite you to meet some of the veterans on our team and explore our resources to enhance your career transition and journey.
We have a presence in approximately 100 countries and regions worldwide and our innovative medicines have reached millions of people in the fight against serious illnesses.
LIVE. WIN. THRIVE.
Amgen is committed to unlocking the potential of biology for patients suffering from serious illnesses by discovering, developing, manufacturing and delivering innovative human therapeutics. This approach begins by using tools like advanced human genetics to unravel the complexities of disease and understand the fundamentals of human biology.
Our belief—and the core of our strategy—is that innovative, highly differentiated medicines that provide large clinical benefits in addressing serious diseases are medicines that will not only help patients, but also will help reduce the social and economic burden of disease in society today.
Amgen focuses on areas of high unmet medical need and leverages its expertise to strive for solutions that improve health outcomes and dramatically improve people's lives. A biotechnology innovator since 1980, Amgen has grown to be one of the world's leading independent biotechnology companies, has reached millions of patients around the world and is developing a pipeline of medicines with breakaway potential.
We focus on four therapeutic areas: oncology, inflammation, general medicine, and rare disease. Our medicines typically address diseases for which there are limited treatment alternatives, or they are medicines that provide a viable option to what is otherwise available. Click here to learn more about Amgen's pipeline.
We have helped shape the scientific world’s understanding of certain disease processes, and we have engineered new types of therapeutic platforms. As a company, we could not have accomplished all of this were it not for our deep commitment to building a culture that embraces science and innovation—a culture that continues to shape who we are today.
Amgen is transforming biotech to better understand human diseases—and how to fight them. It's a continuous journey that we've committed to as we tackle the challenges most won't. Here, success calls for a collaborative environment. One where science and business link together to assemble support for our mission, accomplishing more for those who rely on us.
Amgen has consistently been recognized as an employer of choice by organizations like Glassdoor, Great Place to Work, Forbes, Time Magazine, Newsweek, and more. Our employees are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work and empowered with the resources needed to build a meaningful career with flexible work-life balance.
Be Science-Based
Our success depends on superior scientific innovation, integrity and continuous improvement in all aspects of our business through the application of the scientific method. We see the scientific method as a multi-step process that includes designing the right experiment, collecting and analyzing data and rational decision making. It is not subjective or emotional, but rather a logical, open and rational process. Applying the scientific method in all parts of the organization is expected and highly valued.
Compete Intensely and Win
We compete against time, past performance and industry rivals to rapidly achieve high quality results. Winning requires taking risks. We cannot be lulled into complacency by previous achievements. Though we compete intensely, we maintain high ethical standards and demand integrity in our dealings with competitors, customers, partners and each other.
Create Value for Patients, Staff and Stockholders
We provide value by focusing on the needs of patients. Amgen creates a work environment that provides opportunities for staff members to reach their full potential. We strive to provide stockholders with superior long-term returns while balancing the needs of patients, staff and stockholders.
Be Ethical
We are relentless in applying the highest ethical standards to our products, services and communications.
Trust and Respect Each Other
Every job at Amgen is important and every Amgen staff member is important. We attract diverse, capable and committed people and provide an environment that fosters inclusion, respect, individual responsibility and values diversity. Trust is strengthened through personal initiative and by obtaining quality results rapidly.
Ensure Quality
Quality is a cornerstone of all of our activities. We seek the highest quality information, decisions and people. We produce high quality products and services. Quality is woven into the fabric of everything we do.
Work in Teams
Our teams work quickly to move scientific breakthroughs from the lab through the clinic to the marketplace and to support other aspects of our business. Diverse teams working together generate the best decisions for patients, staff and stockholders. Our team structure provides opportunities for Amgen staff to impact the direction of the organization, to gain broader perspective about other functions within Amgen and to reach their full potential.
Collaborate, Communicate and Be Accountable
Leaders at Amgen seek input and involve key stakeholders in important decisions. In gathering input, strong leaders will welcome diverse opinions, conflicting views and open dialogue for serious consideration. They will clearly communicate decisions and rationale openly and in a timely manner. Once a decision is made, the leader and members of the team will all be accountable for the results and for implementing the decision rapidly.
At Amgen, we know success comes from more than just what we do—it also how we do it. Our Leadership Attributes guide us in our mission to reliably deliver high-quality, innovative medicines to patients who need them and uphold how we engage with patients, shareholders and each other.
Inspire
Create a connected, inclusive and inspiring work environment that empowers talent to thrive.
Accelerate
Enable Speed that matches the urgency of patient needs by encouraging progress over perfection.
Integrate
Connect the dots to amplify the collective power of Amgen to drive results for patients, staff and shareholders.
Adapt
Lead through change by adapting to an ever-changing environment and defining a clear course of action to deliver results.