Senior Director, GDO Operational Business Management

Career Category

Corporate Services

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. 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.

Senior Director, GDO Operational Business Management

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will be member of the GDO leadership teams and strategic partner to the Amgen India and R&D organizations. Responsible for financial oversight, and strategic resource allocation to assure operational efficiency and financial discipline within development operations. This senior leader provides GDO insight and direction to the study budget forecast and approval process, ensures that GDO resources are staffed and deployed in alignment with organizational goals, and manages the GDO functional budget while adhering to regulatory compliance and budgetary constraints.

Responsibilities:                                                                       

• Align operational plans with financial targets, prioritize GDO investments, and build business cases for technology and modernization initiatives.

• Link GDO resources to budget, identify efficiencies, and drive awareness, allocation, and management of non-resource spend.

• Translate resourcing data into actionable insights for senior leadership and business partners.

• Partner with R&D Finance to ensure alignment on GDO budget understanding, targets, and resource planning.

• Identify and quantify resource needs (staffing, technology, clinical trial costs) across the Amgen portfolio.

• Manage staffing capacity across Amgen staff, FSPs, and contingent workers to support portfolio needs.

• Deliver analyses and reports on resource demand/supply, highlighting variances and financial risks.

• Lead, mentor, and develop a global team while collaborating with cross-functional and external stakeholders.

• Foster accountability, innovation, and collaboration; build talent pipelines and develop critical skills.

• Serve as GDO’s senior business owner, leading analyses to inform executive trade-off decisions on budget, cost, technology, and efficiency.

• Partner with GDO leadership to build future resource capability plans.

• Collaborate with GDO functions to meet evolving business needs, ensuring speed, quality, productivity, and efficiency.

• Champion budget awareness and cost drivers; present analyses, scenarios, and recommendations to executive leadership.

• Partner with Finance and R&D Strategy & Operations to develop and refine resource algorithms and adapt them in real time.

• Drive continuous improvement and innovation in resource utilization, scenario modeling, and clinical trial technologies.

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The strategic, data-driven professional we seek is a collaborative, results-oriented leader with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree and 5 years of Business Operations, Resource Planning, or Financial Management in Pharmaceutical R&D or Clinical Operations experience

OR

Master’s degree and 8  years of  Business Operations, Resource Planning, or Financial Management in Pharmaceutical R&D or Clinical Operations experience  

OR

Bachelor’s degree and 10 years of Business Operations, Resource Planning, or Financial Management in Pharmaceutical R&D or Clinical Operations experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in financial and/or resource management within clinical operations, including ov