Medical Advisor_ Cardiovascular (Manager)
About this opportunity
Career Category
Scientific
Job Description
Job Description
Join our team as the medical coordinator for products in RPA and Amgen's future pipeline. In this dynamic role, you will lead the adaptation of global and regional strategies to align with local priorities, enhancing Amgen's value proposition. You will develop and lead medical strategies and tactics, collaborate closely with the brand and development teams to shape product strategies, and represent Japan's position on global and regional disease and product-related programs. Additionally, you will provide valuable medical insights on portfolio evaluations and discussions, and spearhead the planning and execution of evidence generation, publications, and medical events. This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in the medical field and contribute to Amgen's success.
Responsibilities
Support the development and execution of medical strategies to maximize the value proposition of Amgen's therapies. This includes annual strategic planning, goal setting, launch support, and lifecycle management as directed by the Country Medical Affairs Lead (CMAL).
Contribute to cross-functional stakeholder teams to shape the healthcare ecosystem by enabling access to medicines through evidence generation, communication, and education of medical and scientific value.
Synthesize and integrate insights to provide medical inputs into relevant cross-regional and cross-functional strategies, including brand strategy.
Contribute to the development of strategies for scientific engagement across a broad range of stakeholders to strengthen external understanding of the unmet needs and value of the products.
Develop and lead the execution of strategies for medical evidence generation, including Amgen-sponsored and investigator-sponsored studies.
Communicate and interact with professionalism and tact.
Promote openness and innovation through actions and decisions.
Develop KOL engagement plan and execution.
Basic
Qualifications
Advanced degree (e.g., PhD, master’s degree, RPh, PharmD) or a strong demonstration of an equivalent combination of relevant educational and professional training.
Minimum of 3 years of work experience in medical affairs, clinical development, or a related department in the pharmaceutical industry.
Good communication and negotiation skills with scientific experts and internal stakeholders.
Proficiency in reading, listening, and speaking in English and Japanese.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in clinical practice, medical affairs, and research, including clinical, medical, epidemiological, and RWD areas.
Strong expertise in the therapeutic area, related products, and disease states, underpinned by a strong scientific, clinical, and data science background.
Expertise in cardiovascular area, specifically lipid lowering therapy.
Ability to work independently and collaborate effectively with colleagues.
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Job details
How this role compares
Computed from every other active Medical Affairs role in our database, not just this employer's listings.
We currently track 218 comparable Manager Medical Affairs roles across 70 biopharma companies.
Salary context
31 of 218 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)
Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.
Where these roles are based
Top locations among the 218 comparable roles
+ 31 more countries
Seniority mix
218 of 218 peers have a known seniority level
Therapeutic area mix
74 of 218 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden
Similar opportunities
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How we calculate "similar"
No black box, no LLM guesswork: a deterministic score built from four normalized attributes. Here's this role's own peer group at different match levels, so you can see the mechanism, not just the result.
Every comparison starts from the same 100-point budget: 25 for working in the same function, 40 for the same therapeutic area, 20 for the same or adjacent seniority, 15 for the same country. A dimension we can't confirm on both sides contributes nothing, never a guess, never a free pass.
0 points, never a partial guess. A role we know almost nothing about beyond its function bottoms out at 25%; it never inflates to 100% just because there's little to compare against. Seniority uses a defined ladder (Associate → Manager → Associate Director → Senior → Principal → Director → Senior Director → Executive/VP) so "Director" and "Senior Director" count as adjacent, but "Director" and "Executive/VP" do not.