Technology Strategy & Innovation Senior Manager

Career Category

Information Systems

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. 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.

Technology Strategy & Innovation Senior Manager

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will focus on ensuring successful progression of high value AI and other technology initiatives, placing a strong emphasis on acceleration to value within Amgen’s Technology Innovation Lab, part of AI & Data function. This role will report to the Executive Director, Technology Strategy & Innovation and will work with various cross-functional partners as well as external collaborators and play a pivotal role in driving value towards Amgen’s AI strategic imperatives and digital transformation, ensuring timely and effective delivery.

This Senior Manager position will:

• Facilitate and orchestrate strategic AI initiative progression aligned with process
• Act as functional expert in product and platform scaling process, providing guidance and developing best practices and tools to support scaling efforts
• Proactively navigate and resolve any issues and risks that may hinder portfolio scaling success, empowered to break barriers and ensure continuity.
• Act as the representative of assigned projects to key collaborators, ensuring transparency and alignment through effective communication
• Develop positive working relationships with key partners, spanning cross-functional teams, Digital Technology and Innovation, and the broader new technologies' ecosystem to facilitate scaling orchestration
• Capable of translating technical know-how into accessible, actionable insights for both technical and non-technical stakeholders, thereby facilitating informed decision-making and strategic investment of AI efforts across the organization
• As assigned, manage key external technology alliance or partnerships, including governance, opportunity portfolio, and pull-through execution of key innovation

What we expect of you

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

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree and 2 years of technology, and/or product management experience

Or

Master’s degree and 4 years of technology, and/or product management experience

Or

Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of technology, and/or product management experience

Or

Associate’s degree and 10 years of technology, and/or product management experience

Or

High school diploma / GED and 12 years of technology, and/or product management experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience of life science functional areas, including knowledge of drug discovery and commercialization processes
• Understanding of technology and software, particularly AI focused solutions to support life science processes
• Strong interpersonal, organizational and communication skills
• Excellent project management and coordination/collaboration skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to successfully prioritize a diverse workload to meet deadlines and collaboration expectations
• Autonomy to work independently with few instructions as well as know when to obtain direction
• Demonstrable experience in working with or for Digital Health Startups, Biotech firms, or other emerging technology companies in a business development, partnership, consulting, or deal-making capacity.
• Technical knowledge as it relates to digital transformation at the enterprise level.

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 suppo