District Sales Manager - TEPEZZA Endo-Ocular -Kansas District

Career Category Sales Job Description

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.

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will lead area geography and team of Specialty Account Managers (SAMs) to ensure market penetration. Leads area geography and team of Specialty Account Managers (SAMs) to ensure market penetration by analyzing and understanding market dynamics and data, setting related strategic action plans and excellence in execution in order to ensure that sales goals are achieved within the Endocrinology space.

Provides a clear, compelling sales purpose both clinically and business wise for the team members. Ensures the effective and appropriate use of resources, including territory management tools/data, cross functional partners, marketing tools, etc. Builds business strategy and strategic impact in line with corporate and therapeutic area goals. Leads market development initiatives in line with corporate and therapeutic area goals. Manages administrative duties, ongoing learning of self and team members, operational expenses, program funding, etc.

Ensures that team members operate within regulatory guidelines in all aspects of promotion, program implementation and product compliance. Ensures the team is trained and prepared to maximize business/sales potential, and that the product message is crisp, clear and consistently delivered with high impact. Achieves organizational sales goal volume, proper target reach / frequency objectives as well as other relevant KPIs related to excellence in execution.

Establishes a productive work environment by creating trust and respect within the broader national Endocrinology sales team and establishes self as a business partner across the business unit. Must be able to work closely with and effectively collaborate across all divisions within the business unit to achieve business objectives. Develops an atmosphere of confidence and strength and creates opportunities to recognize and reward outstanding individual and team sales performance.

Builds an organization reflecting a highly professional workforce in the eyes of external and internal partners. Addresses performance issues decisively and appropriately. Develops internal and external customer relationships to successfully drive Amgen’s business objectives within the therapeutic area. Fosters informative flow of insights and delivers influential messages that gain support for initiatives. Develops and communicates a professional growth plan for self and team members.

Continually educates self and team on Endocrinology market issues / trends and product knowledge as it pertains to specific…