CDnA - Senior Director, Commercial Data Science

Career Category

Sales & Marketing Operations

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.

CDnA - Senior Director, Commercial Data Science

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role the Senior Director of Data Science within the Customer Data & Analytics team is accountable for owning standards and solutions for Data Science and Omni-channel Analytics for Amgen’s commercial organization. In addition, the Senior Director must manage relationships across a complex internal set of teams and functional groups.

This position reports to the Associate Vice President, Portfolio Effectiveness and Optimization and will be responsible for the following

Flexible Commuter role to either our Thousand Oaks, CA or our Deerfield, IL office. You will work on-site 2 to 3 days a week.

• Oversees Data Science and Omni-channel Analytics team with responsibility for standards, processes and tools across Omnichannel analytics, predictive modeling, AI/ML modeling, Customer Analytics, Gen AI, and other large-scale data modeling projects in support of the commercial organization
• Experience in AI, Machine Learning, quantitative methods, multivariate statistics, predictive modeling and other analytics frameworks/techniques with 8+ years of experience delivering complex analytical projects
• Partners with collaborators and peers across the organization to bring consistent approaches across the portfolio to solving complex business problems that use scalable and production-grade AI/ML solutions
• Lead globally-distributed teams and implement standard methodologies to divide processes into segments to be done across geographies and then to assemble insights to be presented in a consultative manner to partners
• Working with partners and organically design & implement pilots and then work with DTI organization to deploy as a scalable operational solution.
• Provides Data Science capability through relevant data science certifications and Biopharmaceutical industry expertise and direction to the CD&A organization
• Maintain an awareness of current research and standard methodologies in the field of data analytics, including best practices in analytics and changes in the landscape that would impact the ability to conduct analytics and proactively assess next steps – Stop, Continue, Optimize current strategic roadmap
• Leads the development and execution of commercial Data Science priorities and roadmap
• Leads efforts to anticipate and plan for Data science activities of the future through market sensing, customer/account pulse and assessment of industry trends
• Primary point of contact for senior Commercial leaders to engage with data and omni-channel analytics
• Engages and communicates with key stakeholders on the impact, status and success of Data Science capability initiatives
• Develops, coaches, leads, and retains a dynamic, high-performing Data and Decision Sciences team delivering results, and shaping the future

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The Data and Decision Sciences professional we seek is a leader with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree and 5 years of experience in statistics, operations research, mathematics, econometrics, business administration or a quantitative field

OR

Master’s degree and 9 years of experience in statistics, operations research, mathematics, econometrics, business administration or a quantitative field

OR

Bachelor’s degree and 11 years of experience in statistics, operations research, mathematics, econometrics, business administration or a quantitative field

In addition to meeting at least one of the above requirements, you must have at least 5 years experience directly managing people and/or le