Manager, Strategic Planning & Operations

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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.

Manager, Strategic Planning & Operations

What you will do

At Amgen, our mission to serve patients drives everything we do. Within Global Engineering, the Strategic Planning & Operations (SPO) team sits at the center of shaping and delivering on that mission—enabling a ~$2.5B global capital portfolio, advancing sustainability commitments, environmental health safety, and delivering world class facilities and lab services to drive operational excellence across the enterprise.

In this vital role you will be a member of the Engineering Strategic Planning and Operations (SPO) team. The SPO team serves as an internal strategy and transformation engine for Engineering.  We are a selection of business, advisory, and compliance experts who elevate Engineering’s impact and performance by acting as trusted advisors to senior leadership driving alignment, leadership, and trusted business outcomes in a variety of areas.

Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Strategy: develop and implement strategy, transformation, innovation, operational excellence and continuous improvement efforts across all aspects of Engineering; including technologies, processes, and people
• Analysis: leverage data and a consistent process to assess needs, develop options, make recommendations on next steps, and flex to implement when appropriate. Including preparing and delivering executive level presentations that drive decision making at the highest levels of Engineering and Operations
• Act as the central hub for cross-functional communication and planning efforts to ensure connection and integration across all of Engineering (and beyond)
• Partner with senior leadership on the development, articulation and execution strategies, goals, and objectives
• Partner with senior leaders to solve complex, high-impact business challenges
• Lead engineering transformation workstreams that improve performance, scalability and resilience
• Lead and deliver cross-functional initiatives aligned to Engineering priorities

What we expect of you

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

Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree OR
• Master’s degree and 3 years of business analysis, strategy, project management experience OR
• Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of business analysis, strategy, project management experience OR
• Associate’s degree and 10 years of business analysis, strategy, project management experience OR
• High school diploma / GED and 12 years of business analysis, strategy, project management experience

In addition to meeting at least one of the above requirements, you must have experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs, or directing the allocation or resources.  Your managerial experience may run concurrently with the required technical experience referenced above  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in Biotech within Operations
• In-depth knowledge of Biotech industry trends and the competitive landscape
• Strong business and financial acumen, including facilities and capital project environments
• Versatile and agile leader who can flex across various subject areas across the team and balance multiple responsibilities, priorities, tasks, and projects simultaneously
• Experienced leader with track record of developing successful teams and relati