Business Performance Manager - Project Management

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.

Business Performance Manager - Project Management

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role we are looking for a Business Performance Project Manager to join our team of leaders and liaisons, working on these high priority initiatives that drive value through simplification of Amgen’s largest, cross-functional, end-to-end processes.

The Business Performance Manager will partner with the RDO liaison / transformation lead on one or more transformation initiatives with a focus on speed to impact, disciplined project management, outcome delivery, and modernized approaches to problem-solving.

Operating Model

• Design and facilitate a process to establish Operating Models for functions and cross-functional teams, including ways of working and governance

• Codify the process with tools, templates and training for future utilization

• Apply structured project management practices to ensure consistency and scalability of operating model changes.

Project Planning & Tracking

• Create and maintain integrated schedules leveraging project management discipline to prioritize changes and manage end-to-end processes.

• Identify, track, and communicate interdependencies while defining KPIs (e.g., costs, quality, NPS) to monitor process health and set improvement targets.

• Monitor progress toward key project deliverables; proactively escalate risks and collaborate with stakeholders to resolve scheduling or resourcing challenges

• Establish closed feedback loops to assess effectiveness of improvements and identify new opportunities.

Stakeholder Engagement & Communication

• Build strong working relationships with workstream leads, transformation leaders, and key stakeholders across the AI&D and enterprise organizations

• Collect and integrate feedback from diverse stakeholder groups to continuously improve outputs and outcomes

• Facilitate alignment across cross-functional teams to ensure timely execution and delivery of project components

• Influence mid-level leaders and support senior leader engagement with clear, concise analysis grounded in project management rigor.

Presentation & Workshop Development

• Design and deliver workshop content that supports strategic planning, problem-solving, and decision-making activities

• Lead or support facilitation of meetings and workshops, ensuring clear outcomes, engagement from participants, and alignment with project objectives

• Prepare high-quality executive materials in partnership with senior leaders, highlighting project management progress, risks, and outcomes.

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:

Doctorate degree

Or

Master’s degree and 2 years of change management, project management, or business operations experience

Or

Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of change management, project management, or business operations experience

Or

Associate’s degree and 8 years of change management, project management, or business operations experience

Or

High school diploma / GED and 10 years of change management, project management, or business operations experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Degree in life science or business

• Biotechnology / Pharmaceutical industry experience (preferred) or other sectors of healthcare industry

• Demonstrated expertise in