Associate Director, Global Insights, General Medicine

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.

Associate Director, Global Insights, General Medicine

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role the Associate Director, Global Insights is responsible for facilitating decision enablement across the Commercial organization by leading insight generation via primary market research, strategic secondary analytics and synthesis of internal knowledge.

The individual in this role must have a consulting-type mindset and willing to solve ambiguous problems. They will integrate multiple sources and provide strategic partnership to support Therapeutic Area and Disease strategy, product strategy, brand building, and/or milestones for internal governance. This role will span a range of products in the Amgen portfolio and large global markets.

Flexible Commuter role to Thousand Oaks, CA or Deerfield, IL office. You will work on-site 2-3 days a week.

Job Responsibilities include:

• Independently translates unstructured business issues/requests into action plans and projects that result in high quality deliverables that impact the business

• Integrate insights from a variety of sources (market research, competitive intelligence, secondary data) to address business needs and influence critical go/no-go decision

• Lead design and facilitation of internal workshops to build a shared cross-functional understanding of current hypotheses, key gaps and forward-looking action plans

• Partners with Therapeutic Area leadership to inform and influence therapeutic area strategy

• Plan, design and conduct primary market research for multiple assets in various stages of product lifecycle to enable strategic decision making

• Conduct ad hoc strategic secondary analytics to inform strategic decisions

• Clearly communicate ideas and insights via written or verbal presentation and influences leadership to incorporate findings and insights

• Lead cross-region / cross-portfolio initiatives in collaboration with key stakeholders in global, regional, and local commercial teams

• Set priorities, develop and manage multiple projects and timelines simultaneously

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek is collaborative with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree and 2 years of commercial insights or consulting experience

OR

Master’s degree and 4 years of commercial insights or consulting experience

OR

Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of commercial insights or consulting experience

OR

Associate’s degree and 10 years of commercial insights or consulting experience

OR

High school diploma / GED and 12 years of commercial insights or consulting experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to extract, analyze, treat, and consolidate data from different sources in clear and concise formats with rigor and high level of accuracy

• Strong knowledge of drug development the pharmaceutical industry

• Experience leading primary market research

• Ability to think strategically to support key business decisions

• Ability to work collaboratively in team-based environment across different functional groups

• Excellent presentation skills with ability to explain complex concepts and controversial findings clearly to a variety of audiences, including senior management

• Skilled in prioritizing multiple responsibilities, priorities, tasks, and projects simultaneously

• Experience with commonly used biopharmaceutical industry datasets and databases

• Experience managing multiple stakeholders, prioritizing across a multitude of responsibilities, and allocating bandwidth to drive maximum impact

• Prior experience in strategy/management consulting in the biopharma industry preferably through a lead role

What you can expect of us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for your professional and personal growth and well-being. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we’ll support your journey every step of the way.

The expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is posted. Actual salary will vary based on several factors including but not limited to, relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan, based on eligibility, comprising of 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 that may include:

• A 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

• Flexible work models where possible. Refer to the Work Location Type in the job posting to see if this applies.

Apply now and make a lasting impact with the Amgen team.

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Application deadline

Amgen does not have an application deadline for this position; we will continue accepting applications until we receive a sufficient number or select a candidate for the position.

Sponsorship

Sponsorship for this role is not guaranteed.

As an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people around the world, Amgen fosters an inclusive environment of diverse, ethical, committed and highly accomplished people who respect each other and live the Amgen values to continue advancing science to serve patients. Together, we compete in the fight against serious disease.

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