Senior Director, Global Medical Affairs Hematology Lead

Career Category

Medical Affairs

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, Medical Affairs

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role, the Senior Director Medical Affairs will be accountable for the development and execution of the global medical affairs strategy across the Hematology portfolio, including marketed products, lifecycle opportunities, and pipeline assets, ensuring alignment with enterprise, development, and commercial priorities. The Asset Lead Medical Director will lead the Global Medical Affairs Hematology Team with the objective of maximizing Amgen’s medical value proposition, advancing evidence generation, and enabling the successful development and lifecycle management of the hematology assets.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing global medical hematology team, fostering talent development, succession planning, and organizational effectiveness.

• Lead the cross-functional and cross-regional development and execution of the global medical affairs strategy for the assigned asset through the Global Medical Affairs Team.

• Serve as the senior Medical Affairs leader for hematology representative on relevant global strategic, governance, and cross-functional teams, shaping the long-term scientific, evidence-generation, and stakeholder engagement strategy across the therapeutic area.

• Support the development and delivery of the clinical development plan, integrated evidence generation plan, and lifecycle strategy for the assigned asset and/or follow-on indications.

• Actively provide medical and scientific insights to support development of the Target Product Profile and asset strategy.

• Capture clinical, scientific, patient, payer, and health system insights across key markets and translate them into concrete strategies and medical plans.

• Coordinate with regions to develop and lead the external stakeholder management plan, communication strategy, scientific platform, publication plan, and evidence generation plan.

• Develop robust external stakeholder engagement and insight-gathering approaches to strengthen understanding of unmet need and maximize the medical value of the asset.

• Facilitate scientific engagement with a broad range of external stakeholders, including opinion leaders, professional organizations, advocacy groups, payers, regulators, and other healthcare decision makers.

• Provide strategic direction for study design and execution for medical affairs studies and other global evidence-generation activities.

• Partner on evidence generation and ensure key regional and local needs are addressed.

• Align and implement medical communication strategies and related activities, including review, approval, and dissemination of medical communications as appropriate.

• Provide input into value dossiers and support activities that enable access to medicines through clear understanding and communication of treatment value.

• Determine resource and budget allocation necessary to deliver on medical strategies.

• Cultivate collaboration and coordination across medical functions, regions, and cross-functional partners.

• Facilitate and continue to build Amgen’s role as a science-based, patient-focused partner.

• Provide insights to support Amgen’s understanding of the safety and benefit/risk profile of the molecule.

• Lead or support advisory boards, congress activities, and other scientific meetings.

• Use global infrastructure for tracking, measuring, and evaluating performance and ens