Rare Disease Key Account Manager - Rheumatology-Nephrology - Southern California

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• Rare Disease Key Account Manager - Rheumatology-Nephrology - Southern California
• 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.
• The Rare Disease Key Account Manager’s overall goal is to reduce time to diagnosis, increase appropriate patient identification and improve speed to treatment by partnering with key stakeholders in targeted accounts through focus in the therapeutic areas that Amgen's Rare Disease products are indicated. The Rare Disease Key Account Manager (KAM) is responsible for unlocking operational and access challenges related to appropriate therapies across assigned health systems, specialty clinics, infusion centers, and sites of care to grow the overall rare disease business in the assigned accounts and market. The KAM diagnoses account-level barriers and executes targeted strategies that enable appropriate access to therapy, strengthen clinic readiness, optimize buy-and-bill operations, and support a reliable patient and customer experience across the rare disease treatment journey.
• Proactively assess the business environment across assigned accounts to identify access, operational, economic, and care-delivery barriers that affect appropriate rare disease therapy utilization, reducing time to diagnosis and time to treatment .
• Develop and execute account plans and identify Amgen portfolio objectives aligned to customer priorities, including addressing portfolio growth, patient access, site-of-care friction, and treatment continuity.
• Build stakeholder maps and engage clinical leaders, administrators, pharmacy, finance, revenue cycle, procurement, infusion operations, and care coordinators through proactive calls with key stakeholders
• Translate account data and insights into clear opportunity hypotheses, action plans, and performance reviews of sites.
• Serve as the commercial lead for assigned account contracting opportunities, coordinating internal approvals and supporting compliant negotiation and execution.
• Identify and address barriers related to contracting, customer membership, ordering, distribution channel, formulary or pathway decisions, and product availability.
• Partner with market access, pricing, trade, reimbursement, and legal/compliance colleagues to support durable access solutions.
• Support account business reviews that assess contract performance, patient access, operational readiness, and appropriate commercial opportunities.
• Evaluate buy-and-bill workflows, including acquisition, inventory, benefit verification, prior authorization, coding, billing, payment, and financial risk points.
• Work with clinics and internal partners to identify practical improvements in reimbursement readiness, inventory practices, ordering processes, and patient financial navigation.
• Engage sites of care through education, workflow support, and coordinated resources that strengthen readiness to initiate and maintain therapy.
• Help customers diagnose and identify operational gaps that can delay treatment, including referral handoffs, scheduling, infusion capacity, care coordination, and post-initiation follow-up.
• Coordinate field execution with sales, medical, patient services, market access, trade, analytics, and brand partners.
• Provide timely, actionable field insights into customer needs, competitive dynamics, reimbursement trends, and operational barriers with matrix colleagues.
• Monitor account performance and adapt priorities to deliver against agreed objectives in a compliant manner.
• Maintain accurate account plans, account affiliations, activity records, and opportunity documentation in required systems.
• Lead matrix planning and follow-through for priority account initiatives, clarifying partner roles, decision points, owners, and timelines.
• 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.

Required

• Doctorate degree and 2 years of sales experience and/or related account management experience
• OR
• Master’s degree and 4 years of sales experience and/or related account management experience
• OR
• Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of sales experience and/or related account management experience
• OR
• Associate’s degree and 10 years of sales experience and/or related account management experience
• OR
• High School diploma/GED and 12 years of sales experience and/or related account management experience
• Approximately 40 – 60% travel within an assigned geography, including customer meetings, internal planning, and industry events.
• 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.
• 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

Preferred

• Experience working with complex provider accounts, specialty clinics, health systems, infusion centers, or similar sites of care.
• Experience in rare disease, specialty therapeutics, biologics, infusion, or other complex buy-and-bill environments.
• Demonstrated knowledge of reimbursement, coding, benefit verification, prior authorization, and clinic revenue-cycle considerations.
• Prior contracting, account negotiation, or experience with IDNs, GPOs, specialty pharmacies, distributors, or alternate sites of care.
• Understanding of clinic operations and site-of-care decision drivers.
• Strong business acumen and ability to interpret account economics, reimbursement information, and performance data.
• Executive communication, problem solving, and influence skills across clinical and administrative stakeholders.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, operate independently, and execute through cross-functional teams.
• A patient-centered, compliant approach to customer engagement and solution development.

• Retirement and savings plan
• Group medical coverage
• Dental coverage
• Vision coverage
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Flexible spending accounts
• Annual bonus program
• Sales-based incentive plan
• Stock-based long-term incentives
• Paid time-off plans
• Flexible work models