Director Study Start-up

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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.  

Study Start Up Hub - Director Study Start-up

What you will do 

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will ensure world-class study start-up planning and execution by leading teams, strengthening capabilities, and continuously improving how we deliver high-quality clinical trials at speed. 

• Lead and inspire the Study Start-Up Management team to deliver high-quality study start-up activities with speed, efficiency, and budget discipline. 

• Provide strategic direction and people leadership to SSU Senior Managers, building a high-performing, engaged, and future-ready team. 

• Drive continuous improvement through leadership of the SSU Hub, promoting innovation, consistency, and best-practice ways of working. 

• Oversee SSU operating model performance, proactively identifying risks and implementing improvements to optimize delivery outcomes. 

• Ensure strong SSU management capability through targeted development of skills, processes, systems, and technology expertise. 

• Lead SSU manager resource planning and forecasting to ensure optimal capacity and effective portfolio delivery. 

• Foster a culture of empowerment, collaboration, and open communication that encourages learning and challenges the status quo. 

• Build strong partnerships with global and cross-functional stakeholders to enable seamless execution and support operating model transformation. 

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 individual with the following qualifications.  

Basic Qualifications: 

• Pharma Expertise: Requires pharma and clinical trial processes and operations expertise; no relevant therapeutic knowledge required 

• Management Experience: Requires experience leading and managing global teams and project management experience 

• Tech Skills: