Senior Global Program Manager

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. 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.

Senior Global Program Manager

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will be a strategic partner to leaders of the Product Teams in the success of the strategic vision of the program.

Implementation of our strategy occurs via three cross-functional sub-teams called Work Package Teams (WPTs). The WPTs include

1) Evidence Generation Teams (EGTs) focusing on clinical development activities

2) Product Delivery Teams (PDTs) that concentrate on operations/manufacturing and supply chain activities

3) Insights & Brand Platform Teams (IBPTs) that are committed to global marketing, pricing, access, and reimbursement activities.

The Senior Global Program Manager (SPM) will drive the development, creation and implementation of high quality, global, coordinated cross-functional project plans for products in accordance with the program strategy. In addition, the SPM may be asked to lead and/or participate in special department, cross-functional, or team projects. This person supports the cross-functional drug development and commercialization activities of pipeline or inline products at Amgen and will report into the Director of Global Program Management.

Responsibilities

• Partners with functional leads to develop high quality, integrated, cross-functional plans for cross-functional sub-teams that are aligned with the overall program strategy

• Ensures cross-functional alignment and accountability

• Drives the development and timely completion of annual WPT goals and input to the Global Product Strategy

• Facilitates resource planning, financial and capacity assessments as needed

• Documents issues, decisions and action items of functional work package teams and ad hoc project team meetings

• Conducts the risk management and scenario planning and develops contingency and/or risk mitigation plans

• Coordinates activities with external business partners and alliances, where applicable; contributes to a successful partnership outcome

What we expect of you

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

Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree and 2 years of relevant experience OR

• Master’s degree and 4 years of relevant experience OR

• Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of relevant experience OR

• Associate degree and 10 years of relevant experience OR

• High school diploma / GED and 12 years of relevant experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Drug development experience including deep experience in one or more core drug development and commercialization functions and experience leading teams through governance process.

• Experience and understanding of metabolic disorders, obesity, diabetes and or cardiovascular field.

• Program and project management skills with experience in a healthcare-related environment, operationalizing strategic initiatives, including cross-functional strategic planning, development of integrated plans, monitoring and driving execution to plan.

• Emotional intelligence skills including influencing without authority and navigating within a matrix environment.

• Experience using Project Management tools, methodologies, practices and infrastructure, as related to the Biopharmaceutical Industry

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 gr