TA Lead Global Congress Operations, Senior Manager

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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. 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.

TA Lead Global Congress Operations, Senior Manager

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. Amgen is seeking a highly qualified and driven TA Lead Global Congress Operations, Senior Manager to lead the planning, execution, and management of prioritized congresses within a centralized congress team. This role is pivotal in ensuring the successful execution of Amgen’s congress strategy, fostering collaboration across cross functional brand teams, and delivering impactful congress experiences that align with organizational goals.

Strategic Leadership

• Lead the planning and execution of prioritized congresses in collaboration with cross-functional teams and congress vendors, ensuring alignment with Amgen's business priorities and therapeutic area strategies
• Understand and implement Amgen’s comprehensive global congress operations framework and chip in to the optimization of processes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness
• Serve as the central point of contact for prioritized congress-related planning, communication, and decision-making across regions and therapeutic teams

Project and Event Management

• Oversee end-to-end congress operations, including venue selection, booth design, other sponsorship activities logistics, and post-event analysis and evaluation
• Partner with our strategic congress vendors to ensure high-quality results and adherence to process, timelines and budgets
• Ensure timely progress reports, identify and handle risks and issues, and be able to develop contingency plans in scope as the business needs change
• Find opportunities for process improvement and implement changes to enhance Congress efficiency and effectiveness
• Handle congress budgets, ensuring cost control and financial discipline and alignment with organizational objectives including the generation of SOW’s, PO’s and Invoice approvals
• Ensure all congress activities align with relevant internal regulations, policies, procedures and medical association / society standards
• Ensure that vendors are managing budgets and submission timelines for the approval of booth design, messaging, materials and activities

Team Collaboration

• Partner with medical, commercial, corporate affairs teams and cross functional partners as needed to align congress goals with broader business objectives
• Work closely with regional teams to adapt global congress strategies to meet local needs while maintaining consistency and quality
• Participate in and support onsite Congress execution as necessary
• Cultivate a culture of collaboration, innovation, and excellence within the global congress team

Performance Measurement

• Ensure key performance indicators (KPIs) are reported to business stakeholders in evaluating the success of congresses, providing insights and recommendations for continuous improvement
• Regularly report on congress outcomes, including attendee engagement, customer feedback, and business impact

Travel Requirements: 25% for domestic and international travel

What we expect of you

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

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree and 2 years of experience in congress management and/or operations, business administration, life sciences, marketing, or a related field

OR

Master’s degree and 4 years of congress management and/or operations, business administration, life sciences, marketing, or a related field

OR

Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of congress management and/or operations, business administration, life sciences,