Associate Director – Marketing (Content Production & MarTech)

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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. 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.

Strategic Sourcing Associate Director – Marketing (Content Production & MarTech)

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will be responsible for managing the category strategy for Marketing Services, with a focus on Content Production and Marketing Technology (MarTech). As Associate Director – Marketing (Content Production & MarTech), you will report to the Director, Business Partner, Media and MarTech Procurement (USA, Remote).

You will play a key role in developing and implementing category strategies that align with brand, digital, and enterprise marketing objectives. This includes supporting sourcing initiatives, leading cross-functional collaboration, and enabling third-party solutions that enhance content agility, digital personalization, and media performance.

In this role, you will:

• Build and manage partnerships across Global Marketing, Brand, and Commercial technology procurement and enterprise technology teams.
• Help ensure compliance with commercial, legal, and data privacy standards
• Lead complex sourcing events, vendor negotiations, and contract design, ensuring that supplier engagements drive business value and performance.
• Deliver cost optimization, innovation, and operational agility across content production workflows and MarTech platforms.
• Act as a strategic advisor on supplier selection, investment decisions, and risk mitigation, ensuring compliance with legal, commercial, and privacy standards.

Your work will help drive supplier performance, operational agility, and scalable marketing excellence in support of Amgen’s mission and future product growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and lead global category strategy development for Content Production and MarTech services. Focus on driving value, supplier performance, and innovation through strategic sourcing leadership.
• Influence senior collaborators across Marketing and IT to align sourcing approaches with business needs and transformation priorities.
• Stay informed on market evolution in areas like creative production models, personalization platforms, modular content, and AI-enabled MarTech, translating insights into strategy.
• Build and deliver data-driven business cases (e.g., TCO, build-vs-buy, tech ROI) that shape strategic direction and investment roadmaps.
• Partner cross-functionally to develop multi-year category roadmaps that support new product launches, omnichannel maturity, and global content scalability.
• Use advanced analytics and critical metrics to assess supplier performance, track category health, and drive continuous improvement.
• Drive cross-regional strategy implementation, ensuring global consistency while supporting local flexibility and innovation.
• Represent Amgen in external benchmarking, industry forums, and supplier QBRs to bring emerging best practices back into the organization.
• Design and implement multi-year category plans that align with marketing goals, brand launch priorities, and enterprise omnichannel ambitions.
• Leverage data and analytics to monitor category health, track performance metrics (e.g., cycle times, cost efficiency, content reuse), and support continuous improvement in marketing operations.
• Collaborate across regions to ensure category strategies meet global standards while accommodating local market execution needs.
• Engage with external partners, peer networks, and industry bodies to bring in emerging practices and innovation across content production and MarTech sourcing.

What we expect of you

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

Basic Qualifications: