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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. Join us.

Director Global Patient Safety, Project Management

Live

What you will do

Serving as the lead within Global Patient Safety for the coordination of project management activities by developing and leading project management operations and strategic planning to meet organizational goals.

This position will provide strategic, leadership and technical expertise for the successful implementation of GPS Projects. The position will also provide overall strategic governance for projects by establishing standards, processes and tools required for effective project delivery. Additionally, the role is accountable for supporting project management to ensure GPS has a robust continuous improvement and change control system.

• Supervision of 0-6 Project Managers
• Support the Process Governance structure for GPS
• Ensure appropriate and consistent project management support is provided across GPS
• Support departmental standard methodologies in project management
• In a supervisory and direct capacity provide project management support to process improvement initiatives for all departments within GPS
• Directly support Business Critical Projects as required
• Work cross-functionally to represent GPS in a Project Management capacity
• Collaborate closely with other project management groups to ensure alignment of global safety plans with other functional plans
• Provide Project management support and oversight for M&A Safety activities
• Identify and create communication and issue identification/ resolution plans as required
• Monitor and, as necessary, confirm data accuracy in safety systems for key delivery results
• Raises issues/problems related to ongoing projects to senior management in a timely manner and as needed
• Undertake activities delegated by the QPPV as detailed in the PV System Master File and maintain a state of inspection readiness
• Be the point of contact for Health Authority Inspection and Internal Process Audits within the remit of role and responsibility
• Facilitate Executive Safety Committee (ESC) and Global Safety Team (GST) meeting planning, slide preparation, meeting attendance, communication of outcomes to partners, and follow-up on action items as required
• Support PV Compliance Related activities as required
• Responsible for oversight of Global PV Regulatory Intelligence
• Management responsibilities, as required
• Ensure staff are aligned with Amgen corporate and departmental training
• Provide training, coaching, mentoring, and development of staff
• Participating in and coordinating talent management strategies such as annual reviews, performance management, succession planning and employee development and retention.

Win

What we expect of you

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

Basic Qualifications

• Doctorate degree and 2 years of directly related experience OR Master’s degree and 6 years of directly related experience OR Bachelor’s degree and 8 years of directly related experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• PMP certification
• Successful leadership of major cross-functional projects in regulatory or safety environment
• Strong leadership experience
• Industry and/or Regulatory/Safety experience
• Real-world project management experience
• Organizational change experience
• Effective in group facilitation – ability to guide teams to make decisions & achieve results within agreed parameters & timescales

Thrive

What you can expect of us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, so we work to care for our teammates’ professional and personal growth and well-being.

• Vast opportunities to learn and move up and across our global organization
• Diverse and inclusive community of belonging, where teammates are empowered to bring ideas to the table and act
• Generous Total Rewards Plan comprising health, finance and wealth, work/life balance, and career benefits

Apply now for a career that defies imagination

In our quest to serve patients above all else, Amgen is the first to imagine, and the last to doubt. Join us.

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