Advocacy Relations Senior Manager, Enterprise Capabilities

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Requirements:

• Doctorate degree and 2 years of patient advocacy and/or healthcare policy experience
• Master’s degree and 4 years of patient advocacy and/or healthcare policy experience
• Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of patient advocacy and/or healthcare policy experience
• Associate’s degree and 10 years of patient advocacy and/or healthcare policy experience
• High school diploma / GED and 12 years of patient advocacy and/or healthcare policy experience
• 7+ years of progressive experience in patient advocacy, public affairs, healthcare strategy, or related fields, including demonstrated leadership in cross-functional or external stakeholder engagement.
• Ability to build and sustain trusted relationships with patient advocacy organizations, community leaders, and individuals with lived experience.
• Experience collaborating with advocacy partners across the product lifecycle—from clinical development and trial design through regulatory milestones, access planning, launch, and post-approval engagement.
• Strong ability to navigate and unify diverse advocacy perspectives to build alignment and drive shared goals.
• Demonstrated agility in ambiguous, fast-evolving policy, access, or therapeutic landscapes, particularly in the context of novel or first-in-class treatments.
• Exceptional communication, storytelling, and influence skills to elevate the patient voice and catalyze internal action.

Responsibilities:

• Drive best-in-class advocacy capabilities across all therapeutic areas, enabling scalable, high-impact engagement with patient communities globally.
• Support the collaboration of patient advocacy across Amgen functions, including Medical and Commercial and others, ensuring alignment with therapeutic area strategies, public health initiatives and enterprise-wide priorities.
• Serve as the primary liaison to Clinical Program Operations (CPO) and the Patient Engagement, Recruitment & Retention (PER&R) teams to advance the role of advocacy in clinical trial design, recruitment, and retention.
• Support collaboration and coordination with Government Affairs to ensure advocacy efforts align with broader policy initiatives and key external organizational priorities.
• Contribute to the planning and execution of major advocacy and stakeholder events (e.g., stakeholder summits, medical congresses) across U.S. and global markets
• Lead development and implementation of advocacy capability-building programs to empower patient communities and elevate engagement impact.
• Design and deliver advocacy training, ensuring team understanding of community engagement strategies.
• Support development of internal and external advocacy communications to enhance visibility, alignment, and partner engagement, including serving as the point of contact for the Patient Voices team.
• Manage core compliance and regulatory processes for advocacy, communicating relevant Compliance, Legal, Medical and Regulatory updates to the advocacy team.
• Oversee day-to-day advocacy team operations, including budget oversight, resource planning, and process optimization to drive team efficiency.
• Manage relationships with external partners and vendors, ensuring alignment with advocacy strategy and high-quality execution across initiatives.