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Thought Leader Liaison, Northeast Region

Amylyx Pharmaceuticals

New York, NY; Pennsylvania, PA; Massachusetts, MA; Washington, DCOnsitePosted 1 day ago$200,000 - $225,000
Full TimeSenior LevelCommercial & Pharma SalesPharmaceutical
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Summary

As a member of the marketing team, the Thought Leader Liaison, Northeast Region is a field-based individual contributor responsible for advancing Amylyx's commercial objectives through strategic and compliant stakeholder engagement and insight generation across the assigned geography. The TLL cultivates professional relationships with key external stakeholders, delivers actionable market insights, and executes stakeholder engagement strategies that support brand performance, launch readiness, and organizational priorities.

Job description

The Opportunity

As a member of the marketing team, the Thought Leader Liaison, Northeast Region is a field-based individual contributor responsible for advancing Amylyx's commercial objectives through strategic and compliant stakeholder engagement and insight generation across the assigned geography. The TLL cultivates professional relationships with key external stakeholders, delivers actionable market insights, and executes stakeholder engagement strategies that support brand performance, launch readiness, and organizational priorities.

Working collaboratively across Marketing, Sales, Market Access, Medical Affairs, and Compliance, this role serves as a critical connector between external stakeholders and internal strategy, ensuring external stakeholder insights inform key business decisions.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain professional relationships with key stakeholders (e.g., key opinion leaders) to advance commercial objectives.
  • Identify and assess potential advisors, speakers, and thought leaders based on expertise, clinical experience, scientific contributions, and organizational needs.
  • Execute thought leader engagement strategies aligned with national brand objectives, supporting identification, prioritization, and engagement planning.
  • Support the planning and execution of advisory boards, speaker programs, congress activities, and other high-impact stakeholder initiatives to meet established business needs.
  • Deliver regional marketing initiatives that strengthen brand strategy and address evolving educational and local market needs.
  • Generate, synthesize, and communicate actionable stakeholder insights to inform commercial strategy, launch readiness, and organizational decision-making.
  • Serve as a strategic cross-functional partner to Marketing, Market Access, Sales Leadership, Medical Affairs, and Compliance, ensuring coordinated, compliant, and impactful stakeholder engagement.
  • Conduct all activities in accordance with applicable legal, regulatory, and company policies and procedures.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree required
  • 8+ years of progressive experience in biotechnology or pharmaceutical commercial roles, including significant experience in thought leader engagement, sales, or marketing.
  • Demonstrated success developing strategic thought leader partnerships and influencing stakeholder engagement within rare disease, endocrinology, or metabolic disease, preferably in launch or pre-launch environments.
  • Proven ability to influence without authority, collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams, and communicate with clarity and impact across all levels of the organization.
  • High degree of initiative and comfort working independently in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment while managing multiple priorities simultaneously.
  • Demonstrated learning agility, intellectual curiosity, and commitment to continuous improvement.
  • Ability to travel up to 60-70%, including overnight and occasional weekend travel, to support stakeholder engagements, congresses, regional and national meetings, and periodic visits to the corporate office in Cambridge, MA.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Advanced degree (MBA, PharmD, or equivalent).
  • Experience engaging academic institutions and key accounts strongly preferred.

Work Location and Conditions

This is a field-based role supporting the Northeast region. Candidates should reside within the region and have reasonable access to a major commercial airport. When working remotely, you must have access to a work setting which enables meeting all requirements of the role (including privacy, reliable internet access, phone, ability to video conference, etc.) at your remote location.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree required
  • 8+ years of progressive experience in biotechnology or pharmaceutical commercial roles
  • Significant experience in thought leader engagement, sales, or marketing
  • Demonstrated success developing strategic thought leader partnerships within rare disease, endocrinology, or metabolic disease
  • Proven ability to influence without authority and collaborate across cross-functional teams
  • Ability to travel up to 60-70%, including overnight and occasional weekend travel
  • Advanced degree (MBA, PharmD, or equivalent) preferred
  • Experience engaging academic institutions and key accounts preferred

Benefits

  • Performance-based bonuses
  • Equity awards
  • Comprehensive benefits package

Company overview

Amylyx Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 2013 by co-CEOs Josh Cohen and Justin Klee. The company specializes in developing novel therapies for neurodegenerative diseases with high unmet medical needs, with a particular focus on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Wolfram syndrome, and post-bariatric hypoglycemia. Amylyx's lead investigational therapy, AMX0035, received FDA approval for ALS treatment under the brand name RELYVRIO in September 2022. The company employs a rigorous scientific approach to target multiple pathological pathways in neurodegeneration, with additional pipeline candidates including avexitide for metabolic disorders and AMX0114, an antisense oligonucleotide targeting calpain-2 for ALS. With a team of 201-500 employees, Amylyx combines therapeutic development expertise with commercialization capabilities to address some of medicine's most challenging conditions.

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