Project Coordinator, Senior Manager, Obesity

Career Category

Project Management

Job Description

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.

Project Coordinator, Senior Manager, Obesity

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. The Project Coordinator, Senior Manager, Obesity will be embedded in the Obesity Intelligence & Analytics team, helping the team stay focused, organized, and connected to the market research and analytics that inform strategy. This role will partner closely with the Obesity Intelligence & Analytics Executive Director to translate priorities across Amgen global offices into clear workplans, decision-ready deliverables, and timely cross-functional execution.

This individual must bring a consulting mindset, commercial judgment, digital curiosity, and strong organizational agility as part of a global commercial insights and analytics team. They will connect primary market research, competitive intelligence, secondary analytics, internal knowledge, and approved AI-enabled ways of working to align stakeholders, strengthen team culture, and deliver high-quality insights for product strategy, brand building, and governance milestones.

Flexible Commuter role to the Thousand Oaks, CA office. You will work on-site a minimum of 2-3 days a week

• Partner closely with the Obesity Intelligence & Analytics Executive Director as an embedded extension of the team, translating priorities into workstreams, decision points, timelines, owners, and follow-through
• Coordinate inputs and handoffs across Amgen offices located globally, market research, analytics, competitive intelligence, brand, medical, access, governance, and other partners to keep priority work connected and on track
• Help frame business questions, connect them to research and analytics approaches, and ensure deliverables are decision-ready and grounded in clear implications
• Maintain practical team operating rhythms, leadership and decision forums, timelines, onboarding/training resources, and knowledge management routines
• Champion responsible adoption and evolution of approved AI use, identifying practical use cases for insight synthesis, planning, communications, and workflow efficiency
• Identify dependencies, risks, and trade-offs; flex across insight synthesis, leadership communications, vendor coordination, team culture development, and ad hoc problem solving as needed

What we expect of you

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

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree and 2 years of project coordination/management, forecasting, analytics, market insights, finance, strategy, or commercial planning experience

OR

Master’s degree and 4 years of project coordination/management, forecasting, analytics, market insights, finance, strategy, or commercial planning experience

OR

Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of project coordination/management, forecasting, analytics, market insights, finance, strategy, or commercial planning experience

OR

Associate’s degree and 10 years of project coordination/management, forecasting, analytics, market insights, finance, strategy, or commercial planning experience

OR

High school diploma / GED and 12 years of project coordination/management, forecasting, analytics, market insights, finance, strategy, or commercial planning experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in commercial insights, analytics, market research, or strategy roles within pharma, biotech, or related healthcare
• Ability to translate ambiguous bus