Senior Director, Global Forecasting, Obesity

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. 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, Global Forecasting, Obesity

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. Amgen is committed to transforming the lives of patients by advancing science, delivering innovative medicines, and creating sustainable value for healthcare systems worldwide. Obesity represents one of the most pressing global health challenges of our time, with rapidly evolving science, treatment paradigms, competitive dynamics, access considerations, and patient needs shaping the future of care.

To support this important therapeutic area, we are seeking a Senior Director, Global Forecasting, Obesity to lead forecasting strategy and execution for Amgen’s global obesity portfolio. This leader will be responsible for developing robust, evidence-based forecasts that inform portfolio strategy, investment decisions, launch planning, lifecycle management, resource allocation, and long-range business planning.

The Senior Director will partner closely with Global Commercial, U.S. Commercial, Regional Commercial, Finance, Medical, Market Access, R&D, Business Development, Market Research, Analytics, and Competitive Intelligence teams to ensure forecasts reflect aligned assumptions, rigorous methodology, and a forward-looking view of market evolution. The role requires a strategic forecasting leader who can operate in ambiguity, influence senior stakeholders, build organizational confidence in forecast outputs, and translate complex market dynamics into clear business implications.

This role requires at least 3 days on campus in Thousand Oaks, CA.

Global Forecasting Leadership

• Lead global forecasting for Amgen’s obesity portfolio, including pipeline assets, launch brands, lifecycle opportunities, and long-range therapeutic area planning.
• Develop and maintain short-term, mid-term, and long-range forecasts that support strategic planning, investment decisions, portfolio prioritization, and performance expectations.
• Establish clear forecasting frameworks, methodologies, governance, and assumptions across global, regional, and U.S. stakeholders.
• Translate forecast outputs into actionable strategic recommendations for senior leadership.
• Serve as a trusted forecasting advisor to Global Commercial, Finance, R&D, Medical, Market Access, and regional leadership teams.
• Ensure forecasts are credible, transparent, and grounded in robust data, business logic, and cross-functional alignment.

Obesity Market and Portfolio Forecasting

• Build forecasts that reflect the complexity of the global obesity market, including treatment adoption, patient flow, diagnosis and treatment rates, payer dynamics, adherence, persistence, capacity constraints, competitor entry, and evolving standards of care.
• Incorporate global and local market dynamics, including epidemiology, pricing and reimbursement, access restrictions, regional launch sequencing, promotional investment, and healthcare system differences.
• Evaluate key forecast drivers such as patient segmentation, demand generation, product profile, differentiation, market expansion, switching, discontinuation, and competitive response.
• Develop scenarios to assess upside and downside risks across major markets and regions.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to assess commercial implications of clinical data, label scenarios, indication expansion, device or formulation changes, and lifecycle opportunities.
• Support business development, licensing, and external innovation assessments as needed through objective commercial forecasting.

Strategic Planning and Decision Suppo