The posting
Job Title: Sr. Manager - UPLIZNA Neurology Medical Marketing Insights & Congress Strategy
Job Location: Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States
Job Location Type: Remote
Job Contract Type: Full-time
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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.
Senior Manager, Neurology Medical Marketing - Insights & Congress Strategy
What you will do
Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will lead U.S. Neurology external insight generation and the broader congress activation strategy across gMG and NMOSD.
Reporting to the Neuro Medical Marketing Lead, this individual will ensure customer, scientific, field, and congress learnings are translated into clear strategic implications that shape franchise strategy, indication planning, customer engagement, content, and investment decisions.
This role has end-to-end accountability for advisory board strategy and execution, a structured field-insight model with the Thought Leader Liaison (TLL) team, insight synthesis and communication, and the strategic activation of the congress portfolio. Within the Neuro Medical Marketing Lead's integrated U.S. congress strategy, the Senior Manager owns sponsorship strategy, activation planning, and cross-functional pull-through while leading and developing the team members responsible for assigned workstreams. Professional Marketing retains ownership of booth-related and sales-driven assets, including development and deployment of Tier 3 local conference kits.
Key Responsibilities
Lead External Insight Strategy and Advisory Boards
- Set and evolve the U.S. Neurology external insight strategy across gMG and NMOSD, defining priority business questions and an integrated plan to generate actionable learning throughout the year.
- Own the end-to-end strategy and execution of Neurology advisory boards, including objective development, advisor strategy, content and stimulus development, agency and vendor management, meeting execution, insight synthesis, and action planning.
- Ensure advisory board insights are rapidly synthesized and translated into clear recommendations that inform franchise strategy, indication plans, customer engagement, content, and investment decisions.
- Partner with Analytics & Insights, Medical Affairs, Global, and other functions to integrate advisory board learning with market research, competitive intelligence, scientific developments, and other relevant sources of insight.
Lead Field Insights with the TLL Team
- Establish and lead a structured field-insight model with the TLL team, including clear learning priorities, collection mechanisms, synthesis processes, and feedback loops to ensure field observations inform business decisions.
- Partner with TLL leadership to identify emerging customer needs, OL dynamics, scientific developments, competitive activity, and account-level themes across the evolving Neurology treatment landscape.
- Translate field intelligence into focused, decision-ready insights and recommendations for Medical Marketing, HCP Marketing, Medical Affairs, Sales, and franchise leadership.
- Build processes and tools that improve the quality, consistency, visibility, and strategic value of insights collected from the field.
Lead Congress Strategy, Sponsorships, and Activation
- Within the Neuro Medical Marketing Lead's integrated U.S. congress strategy, lead the annual congress activation plan across gMG and NMOSD, including business objectives, priority meetings, customer and insight goals, investment recommendations, activation requirements, and success measures.
- Own congress sponsorship strategy and selection, including opportunity evaluation, investment recommendations, contracting coordination, activation requirements, vendor management, and post-event assessment.
- Lead the broader cross-functional congress activation strategy and execution plan, integrating insights, OL engagement, scientific priorities, promotional opportunities, field priorities, competitive intelligence, and post-congress follow-through.
- Establish clear accountability, timelines, and decision rights across Medical Marketing's congress workstreams. Partner with the Opinion Leader Engagement & P2P lead, who owns all marketing-led OL-facing engagement at congresses, to integrate those programs into the activation plan.
- Lead strategic prioritization and activation requirements for Tier 3 local meetings. Partner with Professional Marketing, which owns development and deployment of sales-driven local conference kits, to ensure those kits and booth-related assets are aligned with overall congress objectives.
- Ensure congress insights and competitive learnings are rapidly synthesized, communicated, and translated into implications and actions for gMG and NMOSD.
Lead Cross-Functional Strategy and Investment
- Contribute to annual brand planning, long-range planning, quarterly priorities, and tactical plans by bringing forward customer, scientific, field, and congress implications.
- Manage insights and congress budgets, agencies, and external vendors with strong financial stewardship, rigorous prioritization, and accountability for timely, high-quality delivery.
- Represent Insights and Congress Strategy Medical Marketing in key franchise forums and communicate emerging risks, opportunities, and recommendations to senior leadership.
- Identify opportunities to modernize insight generation, field intelligence, congress planning, activation measurement, and knowledge sharing through new capabilities, technologies, analytics, and AI.
Lead and Develop a High-Performing Team
- Directly lead, coach, and develop team members responsible for insights, advisory boards, congress activation, and related Medical Marketing workstreams; establish clear priorities, decision rights, accountability, and development plans.
- Create an operating model that balances strategic leadership with disciplined execution, enabling the team to manage complex workstreams while maintaining a strong customer and business focus.
- Foster a culture of scientific curiosity, customer centricity, ownership, collaboration, innovation, and high standards of execution. Live and role model Amgen Values across the UPLIZNA brand team and cross-functional partners.
What We Expect of You
Basic Qualifications
- Doctorate degree and 2 years of marketing and/or business experience in a role aligned with a Marketing/Sales commercial organization; OR
- Master's degree and 4 years of marketing and/or business experience in a role aligned with a Marketing/Sales commercial organization; OR
- Bachelor's degree and 6 years of marketing and/or business experience in a role aligned with a Marketing/Sales commercial organization; OR
- Associate's degree and 10 years of marketing and/or business experience in a role aligned with a Marketing/Sales commercial organization; OR
- High school diploma / GED and 12 years of marketing and/or business experience in a role aligned with a Marketing/Sales commercial organization.
Preferred Qualifications
- MBA or other advanced degree preferred.
- Demonstrated direct people-management experience, including coaching and developing talent, setting priorities, and leading through change.
- Strong Medical Marketing, market research, or strategic insights expertise, including advisory board strategy and execution, field insight generation, customer intelligence, and insight synthesis.
- Experience leading congress portfolio strategy, sponsorship planning, cross-functional activation planning, external vendor management, budget oversight, and on-site execution across complex meeting portfolios.
- Experience collaborating with external experts, professional medical associations, and congress organizers, as well as developing promotional and disease-state materials through the MAC review process and systems such as Veeva PromoMats.
- Neurology experience preferred; rare disease and launch or in-line brand experience preferred.
- Strong strategic thinking, analytical rigor, project management, and communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complex information, lead through influence, and deliver across multiple cross-functional workstreams.
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 posted. 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 where possible. Refer to the Work Location Type in the job posting to see if this applies.
Apply now and make a lasting impact with the Amgen team.
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Application deadline
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.
Sponsorship
Sponsorship for this role is not guaranteed.
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.
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