Site Lead, Strategic Planning & Operations

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.

Site Lead, Strategic Planning & Operations

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. At Amgen, we focus on areas of high unmet medical need and demonstrate our talent and expertise to strive for solutions that improve health outcomes and dramatically improve people’s lives. Amgen San Francisco plays a critical role in discovering innovative human therapeutics. In the last five years, Amgen San Francisco’s (ASF) Research & Development innovation hub has grown by over 40%. As our site continues to evolve, we are seeking a Site Lead – Strategic Planning & Operations to join our leadership team to enable us to continue our mission to serve patients.

This role presents an opportunity to provide business operations support to the Amgen San Francisco site, covering a range of responsibilities including but not limited to active site leadership, internal communications and external outreach, staff engagement, and site budget management. You will have a share of strategic planning and focus, tactical actions and implementation, and direct access and visibility to leadership to enable us to achieve the overall site mission and goals. This role will report directly to our ASF Site Head.

Business Operations & Communications:

• Plan and facilitate site-wide leadership team meetings, committees, and workshops, serving to provide site/staff perspective on issues relating to facilities, operations, safety, engagement, as well as to provide information to team on site activities
• Liaise regularly with internal departments such as Corporate Affairs, Environmental Health & Safety, Facilities, Research & Development, and HR (Site Operations Council)
• Develop and implement internal communications strategy, in collaboration with HR and Corporate Affairs, to represent the Site’s vision, goals and business imperatives that drive staff engagement, awareness and talent retention
• Plan and prepare site-wide all-staff meetings, communications, and connectivity events in collaboration with HR Site Lead & Corporate Affairs
• Develop and manage timely, strategic communications using internal communications vehicles (company intranet, newsletter(s), announcements, staff services, calendar and site comms channels such as digital monitors, posters)
• Manage tour opportunities with academia, elected officials, opinion leaders and Amgen leadership, ensuring appropriate messaging, content and approach
• Plan and facilitate site business performance reviews for executive leadership visits
• Identify and drive process improvements at the site and general issue resolution

Internal / Staff Engagement:

• Partner with HR to help develop site culture and foster employee engagement
• Provide oversight for the planning/implementation of both internal and external events (annual staff engagement events, scientific off-site, staff appreciation opportunities)
• Ensure ongoing integration and collaboration across the site and within Amgen
• Serve as point-of-contact for the management of day-to-day site operations at ASF

External Engagement / Outreach:

• Actively participate in Amgen San Francisco’s External Outreach Committee, driving initiatives that increase Amgen’s visibility in the local community to enhance our scientific reputation, capture external innovation, and attract/retain talent

Site Budget Management:

• Forecast and manage the Site Budget, working closely with the HR Site Lead, Finance, and the ASF Site Head to ensure site needs are being met
• Ensure investment decisions have neutral or positive returns

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients.