Program Manager

Career Category

Project Management

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.

Program Manager

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will be responsible for planning, executing, and finalizing projects within budget and timeline. They coordinate with various teams, manage risks, handle any project-related issues, and ensure that the deliverables meet the company's quality standards. This role will support the US Medical Lead to drive and execute the product strategy.

Responsibilities

• Support the US Medical Lead and US Medical Team to execute its product strategy

• Liaise with relevant cross-functional team members to manage US regional processes, advance alignment and to ensure deliverables are met

• Organize and facilitate meetings (agenda, minutes, ensure presentations are ready, send pre-reads on time, follow-up pending actions, organize logistics, meeting requests, etc)

• Oversight and tracking of critical team initiatives including budget management

Competencies

• Ability to thrive in a high-performance culture

• Excellent time management, decision making and organizational skills

• Ability to apply research findings, gather information, interpret and analyze findings; develop and finally implement a logical and strategic plan of action

• Ability to make supportable recommendations to help achieve goals

• Strong project management skills, proficiency in logistic planning from beginning to end, priority setting, deliver results on time and multi-tasking

• Ability to think critically, proactively anticipate problems and propose solutions

• Ability to work effectively/collaboratively across teams, levels of management, across partnerships, leverage contact network to motivate diverse teams, and enable cross-functional collaborations

• Ability to work independently and with ambiguity

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 strong collaborator with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree OR

• Master’s degree & 2 years of Project Management experience OR

• Bachelor’s degree & 4 years of Project Management experience OR

• Associates degree & 8 years of Project Management experience OR

• High school diploma / GED & 10 years of Project Management experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• 4 years of project/program management experience and a Bachelor's degree

• Project Management, operational and/or technical experience in the biopharmaceutical industry

• Experience working within a complex process.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills, interpersonal skills, analytical skills, and ability to use Microsoft Office Suite

• Strong technical fluency and curiosity for emerging technologies, with proven ability to integrate AI solutions like CoPilot into day-to-day operations to drive automation and operational excellence.

• Experience handling multiple responsibilities, priorities and tasks with minimal direction

• Proven success in operating in a matrixed or team environment

• Ability to manage a high-volume of projects simultaneously while consistently delivering quality end-product

• Experience communicating and collaborating across various parts of an organization (Finance, R&D, Compliance)

• Experience coordinating teams in a matrix environment

What you can expect from us

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