Senior Manager, Corporate Affairs

Career Category

Corporate Services

Job Description

HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?

If you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. At Amgen, our shared mission—to serve patients—drives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies. We are global collaborators who achieve together—researching, manufacturing, and delivering ever-better products that reach over 10 million patients worldwide. It’s time for a career you can be proud of.

Senior Manager, Corporate Affairs - Global Commercial Operations

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What you will do

Let’s do this! Let’s change the world! In this vital role you will report to the Director of GCO, Corporate Affairs. This senior manager will be responsible for supporting internal strategic communications and narrative development for Amgen’s global commercial organization to ensure staff are aligned to and understand the GCO vision, business priorities, and operating framework.

This is a US-based position which can be hybrid to the Thousand Oaks, CA area.

Key responsibilities include:

• Support development of annual internal communications strategy and content calendar using input from key cross-functional partners; ensure business goals, initiatives and people news are communicated effectively and in line with our values; measure progress and adjust tactics as needed

• Lead execution of virtual or in person staff engagement events or content development supporting business priorities (e.g. thought leadership online series, in-person panel sessions)

• Support strategy and lead execution and for global commercial all staff meetings in partnership with Associate Vice President of Corporate Affairs

• Develop creative and business content (e.g., slide presentations, memos, videos, internal website, etc.) to support various events and meetings

• Support internal communications for Global, Marketing and Capabilities organization working closely with their operating team

• Work closely with regional and country leads in the commercial network to ensure consistency, pull through of messaging, and resource efficiencies

• Develop expertise on all communications vehicles available and best use case

• Use data & analytics to understand staff behaviors to drive impactful communications that inspire, drive business results and/or result in behavior change

• Partner with enterprise and other functional communications leads to adopt best-practice and standards for internal functional comms

• Collaborate with Mission experiences team to complete staff engagement and annual Mission Week activities

• Employ the latest methodologies and technologies to determine the best communication vehicles for intended audience

• Lead strategy and execution of GCO internal website

• Manage multiple agency partners and corresponding budgets across a range of projects

• Collaborate with enterprise brand and internal communications leads to ensure consistency of messaging and brand; keep them apprised on GCO communications activities

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What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek will posses these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree and 2 years of Corporate Communications OR Corporate Affairs experience

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Master’s degree and 4 years of Corporate Communications OR Corporate Affairs experience

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Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of Corporate Communications OR Corporate Affairs experience

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Associate’s degree and 10 years of Corporate Communications OR Corporate Affairs experience

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High school diploma / GED and 12 years of Corporate Communications OR Corporate Affairs experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strategic and creative thinker with the ability to truly understand business challenges and priorities and develop actionable programs that integrate soundly with business objectives

• Experience creating and executing strategic communication programs for a complex, matrixed organization

• Ability to interact with all levels of management and staff

• Ability to productively navigate a challenging and dynamic environment and deal with rapidly changing priorities

• Excellent interpersonal skills; enthusiastic, teammate and self-starter; serious commitment to hard work and excellence

• Outstanding written and oral communication skills; ability to distill complex issues and information into simple, compelling and relevant messages

• Demonstrated e