Observational Research Manager- Data and Analytics Center

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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.

Observational Research Manager

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will be responsible for research activities for Data and Analytics Center (DAC) functionally aligned teams.

With a constantly growing demand for information from regulatory and reimbursement agencies, Observational research (OR) has become a critical component in drug development and commercialization. Amgen’s Center for Observational Research (CfOR) partners with internal and external teams to generate real world evidence for multiple partners across the product lifecycle. CfOR gives evidence regarding the frequency and distribution of disease or the clinical burden of disease, the natural history or clinical course of disease, the design of clinical trials, cost and utilization patterns and the safety and efficiency of interventions. The CfOR Manager is recognized as a strong scientific contributor and a first or contributing author for papers in peer-reviewed journals, abstracts for scientific congresses and internal reports that improve the company’s mission.

Responsibilities:

• Executing and leading descriptive epidemiologic studies to characterize the incidence/prevalence of disease in US, EU, Asia, and emerging market countries.
• Performing and handling research projects involving the analysis of multiple types of data including medical claims, electronic health records and prospective observational cohort studies.
• Contributing to the development and implementation of innovative analytic methods, capabilities, and tools to enable rapid, scalable, and reproducible RWE.
• Conducting literature reviews and preparing research reports and scientific manuscripts.
• Staying current on the latest developments in the field of observational research and drug development.
• Promoting awareness, understanding and use of OR methods.
• Communicating significant scientific information to a variety of audiences.

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The research professional we seek is driven with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree and 2 years of epidemiology experience

OR

Master's degree and 4 years of epidemiology experience

OR

Bachelor's degree and 6 years epidemiology experience

OR

Bachelor's degree and 10 years of epidemiology experience

OR

High School diploma / GED and 12 years of epidemiology experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Doctorate in Epidemiology or other subject with high observational research content
• Experience communicating observational research information (written and oral)
• Experience working in multi-disciplinary teams

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 develo