Global Marketing Director, Oncology

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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.

Global Marketing Director, Oncology

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world! In this vital role The Global Marketing Director is a critical role in the organization and has a significant impact in driving strategy and execution on products at all stages of the product lifecycle. For peri-launch products, including IMDELLTRA® (tarlatamab), the Global Marketing Director is responsible for maximizing the value of the asset within key indications, providing commercial guidance and vision, developing global launch strategies, anticipating lifecycle management opportunities to enhance the customer experience and competitive position, and optimizing the impact of marketing budgets.

IMDELLTRA® is currently being developed for the treatment of both extensive and limited-stage small-cell lung cancer (ES- and LS-SCLC); providing commercial leadership to the development organization, you will be responsible for ensuring that this compound is developed with the future market in mind and in-parallel to late-stage indications.

This role will involve working with leaders across oncology to ensure that the insights and market learnings generated for other thoracic oncology marketed products, and other peri-launch assets are appropriately incorporated into the commercial strategy for IMDELLTRA®. It will also involve working closely with Amgen’s integrated brand team and brand working group selected local countries to integrate local market insights, and ‘Global-with-Local’ engagements, including launch readiness plans.

This role will report to the Global Marketing Lead for IMDELLTRA®.

Key responsibilities include:

• Working with the Global Marketing Lead (GML) to develop a “gold standard” commercial strategy (based on deep insights into the customer, marketplace, competitors, and business drivers) designed to optimize the future value of key indications for IMDELLTRA® (including limited stage and extensive-stage front-line).

• Lead key marketing deliverables requiring cross-functional stakeholder alignment and input (e.g., Brand Planning, Commercial advisory board leadership, etc.) and ensure that all portal decisions are supported by a robust commercial assessment including but not limited to an understanding of portfolio fit and organizational impact.

• Ensure all marketing deliverables for assigned brands are on time and of expected quality in alignment with Amgen’s processes and requirements. These include contributions to Global Product Strategy, competitive insights, patient-centric deliverables, robust Target Product. Profiles, Forecasts, and strategies to enhance program value including lifecycle management initiatives.

• Aligned with Amgen’s Global-with-Local model, lead forums that facilitate cross-sharing between local markets, seek market input on global deliverables, and support launch readiness reviews to ensuring rapid integration of local insights into global strategy.

What we expect of you

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

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree and 4 years of marketing experience

Or

Master’s degree and 7 years of marketing experience

Or

Bachelor’s degree and 9 years of marketing experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• An MBA, coupled with a life sciences educational background.

• 8+ years of experience and a track record of success in a series of commercial roles of increasing scope, scale and complexity, with lea