Clinical Imaging Director

Career Category

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.

Clinical Imaging Director

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will help coordinate and lead the application of different imaging strategies to support our portfolio of innovative obesity, inflammation, cardiovascular and rare disease drug candidates. You will be expected to work with cross functional teams to design, execute and analyze imaging studies.

Responsibilities:

• Expand Amgen’s end to end imaging process to all non-oncology TAs and integrate into wider clinical development procedures. Initial focus would be on obesity, inflammation and rare diseases.
• Representing clinical imaging on process improvement initiatives
• Standardize internal document templates and imaging vendor documentation (Charter, site manuals etc.) for common imaging readouts. Establish new procedures and documentations for novel or updated imaging procedures/criteria.
• Serve as a SME while supporting strategic sourcing and vendor management teams in vendor capability/quality evaluations.
• Develop training materials for imaging methods and endpoints to educate team members on expected/appropriate imaging strategies in clinical trials.
• Work closely with precision medicine, statistics, clinical development, regulatory and clinical operation leads to formulate appropriate imaging biomarker strategies
• Lead, design and implement multi-modality imaging measures as endpoints for clinical studies in a variety of TAs.
• Contribute to clinical biomarkers and diagnostics strategy by evaluating novel imaging modalities, novel image analysis tools and artificial intelligence tools.

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 leader with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree PhD OR PharmD OR MD [and relevant post-doc where applicable] and 5 years of biomedical or imaging-related field experience

Or

Master’s degree and 8 years of biomedical or imaging-related field experience

Or

Bachelor’s degree and 10 years of biomedical or imaging-related field experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• An advanced degree (i.e., MSc or Ph.D.) with 7+ years of experience in clinical imaging research working within a pharmaceutical company.
• Proven track record of successfully leading and managing clinical trials with a deep understanding the workflows which allow different teams (regulatory, operations, statistics etc.) to successfully collect and analyze imaging data.
• Proven leadership experience in the utilization of molecular imaging as a quantitative biomarker in clinical trials
• Experience with the utilization of clinical MR imaging in evaluation of clinical endpoints and investigation of suspected adverse events is preferred.
• Experience is utilization of imaging in obesity and rare diseases is preferred.

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 growth and well-being. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we’ll support your journey every step of the way.

The expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is posted. Actual salary will vary based on several factors including but not limited to, relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan, based on eligibility, comprising of health and welfare plans for staff and eligible dependents, financial plans with opportunities to save towards retirement or other goals, work/life balance, and career development opportunities that may include: