Oncology Strategy Senior Manager

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. 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 strategic initiatives that shape Amgen’s Oncology Therapeutic Area future, with a focus on topics in the R&D space. Projects will be commissioned by Development leadership and will often require independent leadership of a cross‑functional team, often via influencing.

The Senior Manager should have management consulting experience, extending into external landscaping, preclinical deep dives, and cross‑functional case development. They should be a strong communicator (oral and written), comfortable with portfolio analytics, executive presentations, and workshop facilitation/synthesis. In addition, they should have the ability to work within cross‑functional teams, including collaborators both inside and outside R&D verticals with an aptitude for project management.

The Senior Manager will need to be comfortable with ambiguity, open‑scope projects, and ad hoc projects/requests. The role will require a strong scientific background with direct oncology knowledge.

Examples of potential assignments include: the annual oncology therapeutic area strategy; modality strategy deep dives, Artificial Intelligence (AI) strategy support, synthesis and updates of Amgen’s portfolio strategy and pipeline, as well as cross‑portfolio analytics and/or risk management.

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The [vital attribute] professional we seek is a [type of person] with these qualifications.

• Doctorate degree and 2 years of business strategy experience
• Master’s degree and 4 years of business strategy experience
• Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of business strategy experience
• Associate’s degree and 10 years of business strategy experience
• High school diploma / GED and 12 years of business strategy experience

• MD, MBA, MS, Ph.D or equivalent
• Six or more years of strategy experience within management consulting, finance, or corporate strategy functions
• Oncology R&D experience in the biopharmaceutical industry (biotech, pharmaceutical company)
• In-depth understanding of and success in how to conceptualize, design, and synthesize complex topics for a broad audience
• Understanding of trends in Artificial Intelligence and applicable use cases in R&D
• Finance competence and ability to perform NPV analysis, spend categorization, business case, etc.
• Robust knowledge of biopharma industry (i.e., pharma development, translational sciences, R&D processes)
• Understanding of interplay among various partners in the industry, awareness of trends and recent developments, and ability to research / learn/ synthesize findings on new topics
• Excellent cross‑functional communication skills and a decisive yet affiliative leadership style to drive results while maintaining relationships

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.

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