Senior Director, Global Program Management

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HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?

If you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. At Amgen, our shared mission—to serve patients—drives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies. We are global collaborators who achieve together—researching, manufacturing, and delivering ever-better products that reach over 10 million patients worldwide. It’s time for a career you can be proud of.

Senior Director, Global Program Management, Obesity

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What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will drive and develop global strategic plans for programs within Amgen’s commercialization process.

The Senior Director of Global Program Management is a pivotal global role within the Commercialization, Program & Portfolio Management office (CMZ). This position involves extensive interaction with internal teams, external partners and regional partners, and reports directly to the Executive Director of Program Management, Obesity. In collaboration with the Product Team Lead (PTL), the Senior Director drives the creation and successful delivery of high-quality, cross-functional, global strategic plans for Amgen’s products.

While we are open to flexible location options or remote work arrangements, due to the nature of the role, co-location with our headquarters in Thousand Oaks is preferred.

Responsibilities include:

• Lead the development and delivery of strategic plans in collaboration with the Product Team, enabling the PTL to focus on overarching vision and strategy.
• Integrate insights and advice from key partners to ensure comprehensive and effective program management.
• Engage partners through extended interactions, including personalized one-on-one dialogues, to keep them informed and engaged.
• Maintain continuous communication with the CMZ SLT to ensure timely support and proactive involvement in program dynamics and team performance.
• Understand and lead value drivers by deeply influencing and comprehending the program’s key value factors, challenges, and mitigation strategies.
• Continuously monitor program trends and the competitive landscape, address issues promptly, and facilitate essential discussions, elevating to line management and governance when necessary.
• Actively resolve issues and elevate concerns with a sense of urgency to promote a culture of rapid improvement and responsiveness.
• Act as the COO of the Product Team (PT) and all Work Package Teams (WPT) such as EGT, PDT, and Integrated Brand Team (IBT) & subteams.
• Lead the development and delivery of global program strategy in partnership with the PTL, including project plans, timelines, risk management, and communication plans.
• Recruit, hire, manage, and coach Program Management (PM) staff to build a successful team.

Key Activities:

• Lead and facilitate key program strategic deliverables.
• Coach and mentor PT members on their roles, team interactions, program deliverables & interdependencies, action plans, presentations (executive style) to governance bodies (TAG, PG, and PG+), and executive presence.
• Drive and contribute to the development and delivery of high-quality, cross-functional Global Product Strategies (GPS).
• Actively contribute to the development of content for governance meetings.
• Elevate program and PT issues and risks as appropriate.
• Ability to lead, influence, and manage cross-functional programs from concept to completion.

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What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek is adynamic, goal oriented and results driven with these qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree and 5 years Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, or other Healthcare related experience

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Master’s degree and 9 years Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, or other Healthcare related experience

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Bachelor’s degree and 11 years Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, or other Healthcare related experience

In addition to meeting at least one of the above requirements, you must have 5 years’ experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs, or directing the allocation or resources. Your managerial experience may run concurrently with the required technical experience referenced above

Preferred Qualifications:

• 10+ years industry experience within the Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, or other Healthcare related field, wit