Strategic Planning & Operations Senior Manager

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Senior Manager, Strategic Planning & Operations, Global Development Operations

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 Manager, Strategic Planning & Operations, Global Development Operations

What you will do:

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role, you will lead strategic planning initiatives and help drive operational excellence across the organization, working closely with leaders to support execution of the strategic vision.

Amgen’s Global Development Operations (GDO) organization delivers high-quality data to advance our pipeline through strong customer partnership and operational excellence in study execution. The Senior Manager, Strategic Planning & Operations (SP&O) plays a critical role in enabling organizational effectiveness, strategic execution, and operational excellence across the function. This role is part of the GDO SP&O organization and reports to the GDO SP&O, while serving as a strategic partner to the GDO Functional Vice President and Leadership Team. The individual will lead and support execution of organizational plans, engagement and communication strategies, day-to-day business operations, executive presentations, and cross-functional coordination to help drive alignment across GDO pillars, portfolio priorities, organizational objectives, budgets, and resourcing in support of enterprise goals.

Key responsibilities for this position will include the following:

• Serve as a strategic partner to the GDO Functional VP and Leadership Team to develop and execute organizational strategy and priorities, while aligning with GDO SP&O objectives.

• In partnership with the Functional VP, lead and effectively organize high-functioning meetings and orchestrate town halls, events, and presentations to drive engagement and sense of purpose aligned with organizational goals.

• Collaborate with various GDO pillars including Operational Excellence, Human Resources, Finance, IS, Compliance, and other business partners to execute organizational priorities and support prioritization and decision-making activities.

• Serve as a key liaison between the GDO SP&O Head, Functional VP, GDO leadership teams, and other key stakeholders to drive alignment on priorities, communicate decisions, and progress actions.

• Be an active member of the SP&O network and help deliver execution of operational plans for GDO, including resource management, communication and engagement plans, capability planning, training requirements, and support delivery of functional budget and financial targets, as appropriate.

• Understand the pulse of GDO staff across the functional pillar globally and incorporate their feedback and needs into operational plans.

• Partner with the Functional VP to support leadership effectiveness, talent development & planning, and employee engagement initiatives across the function.

• Contribute to high-impact initiatives of strategic importance to the business and execute emerging priorities and deliverables requested by the Functional VP.

• Partner with the Functional VP and GDO SP&O to support implementation of organizational plans, engagement and communication strategies, business operations, executive dashboards, and presentations to internal and external stakeholders.

• Partner with the Functional VP and GDO SP&O to support budget management, headcount planning, and resource prioritization activities.

• Provide oversight for select business processes.

What we expect of you:

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