Clinical Imaging Director

Join Amgen’s mission of serving patients living with serious illnesses.

Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. With a focus on oncology, inflammation, general medicine, and rare diseases, we reach millions of patients each year.

In this vital role, you will coordinate and lead the application of different imaging strategies to support our portfolio of innovative obesity, inflammation, cardiovascular, and rare disease drug candidates. You will work with cross‑functional teams to design, execute, and analyze imaging studies.

• Expand Amgen’s end‑to‑end imaging process to all non‑oncology therapeutic areas and integrate into wider clinical development procedures. Initial focus: obesity, inflammation, and rare diseases.
• Represent clinical imaging in process improvement initiatives.
• Standardize internal document templates and imaging vendor documentation for common imaging readouts. Establish new procedures and documentation for novel or updated imaging procedures/criteria.
• Serve as a SME while supporting strategic sourcing and vendor management teams in vendor capability/quality evaluations.
• Develop training materials for imaging methods and endpoints to educate team members on expected/appropriate imaging strategies in clinical trials.
• Work closely with precision medicine, statistics, clinical development, regulatory and clinical operation leads to formulate appropriate imaging biomarker strategies.
• Lead, design, and implement multi‑modality imaging measures as endpoints for clinical studies in a variety of therapeutic areas.
• Contribute to clinical biomarkers and diagnostics strategy by evaluating novel imaging modalities, novel image analysis tools, and artificial intelligence tools.

We are looking for a leader with the following qualifications:

• Doctorate (PhD, Pharm

D, or MD) plus relevant post‑doc OR

• Masters degree with 8 years of experience OR

• Bachelor’s degree with 10 years of experience in biomedical or imaging‑related field.

• An advanced degree (MSc or Ph.D.) with 7+ years of experience in clinical imaging research within a pharmaceutical company.
• Proven track record of successfully leading and managing clinical trials with a deep understanding of workflows that allow regulatory, operations, statistics, etc. teams to collect and analyze imaging data.
• Proven leadership experience in utilizing molecular imaging as a quantitative biomarker in clinical trials.
• Experience with utilization of clinical MR imaging in evaluating clinical endpoints and investigating suspected adverse events.
• Experience utilizing imaging in obesity and rare diseases.

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, including health and welfare plans, retirement plans, flexible spending accounts, discretionary annual bonus program, stock‑based long‑term incentives, award‑winning time‑off plans, and flexible work models.

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