Executive Medical Director, Early Dev - Inflammation

Career Category

Clinical Development

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.

Executive Medical Director, Early Development – Inflammation

What you will do

Amgen is advancing a broad/deep pipeline of Inflammation programs spanning multiple modalities.  We need collaborative and innovative world-class talent to ensure these molecules become medicines and reach their full potential while helping patients. 

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role the Executive Medical Director you will serve as an Early Development Inflammation Portfolio lead for key assets in the Amgen portfolio. You will serve as the principal representative for an early development portfolio to a range of audiences, including executive leadership, development partners, and global regulatory agencies.   You will develop and translate Inflammation development program strategies into the design and implementation of clinical studies that can be executed without compromising scientific rigor. 

The Executive Medical Director will report into the Associate Vice President, Early Development.  

Responsibilities 

• Develop an Early Development Inflammation team in collaboration with the Early Development Therapeutic Area Head 

• Ensure the best way to develop and prosecute an early development portfolio 

• Drive the timely execution of multiple assets and studies within the early development portfolio 

• Ensure strategy and execution, and partner closely with Research, Translational Safety (toxicology), Precision Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology, Biostatistics, and Clinical Operations colleagues 

• Partner closely with Regulatory leaders to support regulatory interactions and develop regulatory strategies 

• Keep major stakeholders and other senior management updated as the portfolio evolves and matures 

• Guide their team to think broadly as they create innovative portfolio development strategy options.  Ensure all avenues and options have been explored and evaluated before final recommendations are sent for review by senior leadership 

• Oversee activities related to planning for studies including execution and oversight of study outlines and Protocols for early development clinical studies 

• Collaborate with Business Development colleagues in the evaluation of external opportunities. 

• Mentor, coach, and supervise the performance of direct reports to build a highly skilled, diverse, and inclusive team, leading and motivating staff in a complex, multi-functional matrix environment 

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The candidate we seek is an experienced leader with the following qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

• MD or DO from an accredited medical school AND 

• Five (5) years of industry or academic research AND 

• Six (6) years of managerial experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs or directing the allocation of resources

Preferred Qualifications:

• MD or MD/PhD plus accredited residency in relevant sub-specialty, board certified or equivalent 

• Relevant subspecialty board eligibility/certification or equivalent   

• Clinical research experience in the bioph