Global Marketing Director, Cardiovascular

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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.

Global Marketing Director, Cardiovascular

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world! In this vital role you will shape the commercial future of our general medicine pipeline.

The Director of Global Marketing, Cardiometabolic/Olpasiran, General Medicine, is responsible for the creation and implementation of commercial asset initiatives strategies, and the maximization of growth for olpasiran. This role also includes supporting the successful integration of global-to-local strategies to ensure a smooth transition and success for olpasiran. This director will also help integrate CDx efforts and own new market-building initiatives.

The Director of Global Marketing is expected to inform, gather, and align decisions across the matrix. This includes clarifying commercial positioning, driving prioritization, and advancing progress towards brand launch readiness, while ensuring alignment and visibility of assets across markets.

In addition, the Director will work to drive the success of olpasiran by leading cross-matrix functions without direct authority to meet enterprise goals and timelines.

The Director of Global Marketing will actively contribute as a member of the Integrated Brand Team (IBT) and Brand Working Group, partnering closely with the Global Marketing Brand Lead and asset product teams. They will support insight generation, strategy development, and brand planning for Olpasiran.

This position has significant cross-functional interaction with teams including the International Brand Team (IBT) spanning PoC to launch and the growth phase, Global Brand Marketing Lead (GML), brand teams, in-market teams, Therapeutic Area Governance (TAG), Global Commercial Organization (GCO) leaders, PTs (Product Teams), and GenMed Strategy Teams. The Director will be instrumental in driving growth initiatives, identifying and supporting strategic portfolio and brand priorities, and guiding the execution of strategies.

The areas of responsibility for this role include:

• Lead the development of clear and differentiated marketing strategies and actionable plans to support peri-launch and launched assets.

• Challenge cross-matrix stakeholders to identify opportunities and address challenges for assets.

• Critically review clinical data and advancements to assess market threats, differentiation opportunities, and use cases.

• Support key internal and external milestones by leading assessments and deliverables to accelerate launch readiness.

• Collaborate with the Global Marketing Lead, Medical Affairs, and Commercial Insights leads to gather deep marketplace insights and develop a “gold standard” commercial strategy designed to optimize the future value of peri-launch assets.

• Guide the Integrated Brand Team and global marketing activities, fostering global engagement with local market alignment.

• Shape high-quality marketing deliverables aligned with Amgen’s processes and requirements, including contributions to Global Product Strategy, brand planning, launch readiness, competitive insights, patient-centric deliverables, robust Target Product Profiles, forecasts, and strategies to enhance program value and expand patient impact opportunities.

• Partner with global markets to develop and implement launch tactics.

• Generate end-to-end commercial plans for assets and drive activities across the IBT and markets.

• Commission and manage market research in collaboration with Commercial Data & Analytics (cDNA).

• Work with Competitive Intelligence to closely monitor the competitive landscape and its implications for Amgen’s strategy.

• Partner with Forecasting and Finance to develop long-range sales and operating expense projecti