Career Category

Clinical Development

Job Description

HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?

At Amgen, every challenge is an opportunity. And every opportunity brings the potential to change lives. Our shared mission—to serve patients—has driven our status as one of the world’s preeminent biotechnology companies, reaching over 10 million patients worldwide. Leverage your high-level expertise to lead and forge partnerships that advance the biotechnical and biopharmaceutical science that can turn the tide of serious, life-interrupting illnesses.

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What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. Amgen is currently offering a unique opportunity for a highly motivated individual to join our team as a Head of Oncology Clinical Biomarkers within the Clinical Biomarkers and Diagnostics Group (CBD). In this vital role you will develop and implement biomarker and diagnostic strategies across the Oncology portfolio to enable and support the development and commercialization of medically differentiated therapies in oncology. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work in a highly collaborative environment and will represent the Clinical Oncology Biomarkers department in high stakes discussions and strategic planning both internally and externally.

Responsibilities

• Develop and coordinate the Oncology Biomarker strategy across targeted therapeutic areas

• Direct the successful translation of pre-clinical biomarker research to human clinical trials

• Develop strategies for identifying and evaluating cutting-edge biomarker technologies. Lead the evaluation, validation, and implementation of novel technologies and capabilities both internally as well as with external collaborators

• Integrate basic biology, biomarker, genomic, transcriptomic, imaging, and clinical PK, safety, and efficacy data to inform on clinical decision making, mechanisms of response and resistance to therapy, as well as fundamental disease biology

• Present key results at group meetings, governance bodies, scientific conferences and to key internal and external stakeholders and collaborators

• Interface with internal functions and external companies to provide technical guidance in the development of clinical biomarker assays and IVDs as needed

• Provide clinical biomarker sciences direction and leadership to a group of highly skilled Global Clinical Biomarker Leads and Biomarker Operations: support recruitment and line management of employees, ensuring that they are appropriately trained, developed and coached to comply with company and regulatory standards

• Contribute to the optimization of existing as well as the development of new processes to ensure best practice. Mentors and develop Biomarker Scientists

• Provide biomarker expertise to Development management, the Discovery Biomarker Group and project teams to ensure access to state-of-the-art thinking on appropriate biomarker and diagnostic technologies, evaluating their scientific basis and clinical applicability, the validation status and any technical or statistical issues related to the proposed biomarkers and companion diagnostics

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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 is a leader with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications

• Doctorate degree & 6 years of clinical biomarkers & diagnostics experience OR 

• Master’s degree & 10 years of clinical biomarkers & diagnostic experience OR 

• Bachelor’s degree & 12 years of clinical biomarkers & diagnostic experience AND 

• 6 years of managerial experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs or directing the allocation of resources 

Preferred Qualifications

• Experienced biomedical leader (PhD or MD/PhD) with a minimum of 10 years of post-doctoral and relevant industry experience with expertise in oncology biomarker and companion diagnostic development

• Experience developing and implementing overarching therapeutic area biomarker and/or CDx strategies

• Experience leading and conducting research and ability to evaluate, interpret and present complex scientific data

• Experience with the discovery, characterization, clinical validation and utilization of innovative biomarkers and companion diagnostics

• Experience in human translational research with biomarker application in clinical trials and awareness of the challenges of implementing biomarker and diagnostic technologies in the clinical setting

• Leadership skills including motivation and delegation

• Verbal and written communication and presentation skills

• Initiative and ability to work independently and business awareness

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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.

• Clear and disciplined strategic vision for the future that leverages superior-quality products, operational excellence, and top-shelf-talent

• 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

Amgen’s Commitment to Our Staff

At Amgen, our mission is serving patients. Our staff are dedicated to pushing the boundaries of science to transform medicine and turn the tide on serious illnesses. Central to achieving this mission is our “people-first” philosophy. We recruit the best talent, build an environment that facilitates career growth, and provide staff with the opportunity to make significant contributions for patients and our business.

Consistent with our core leadership value of “Develops the Best Team,” we are seeking leaders that prioritize the development of talent. As a manager, your priority and primary role is to accelerate the performance and development of your team. We expect managers to exemplify strong leadership and champion self-awareness and career development Ways that you will display your leadership acumen in this role include:

• Mentoring, coaching, and developing staff to build highly skilled, diverse, and inclusive teams

• Fostering a positive and respectful work environment that encourages staff retention and motivates individuals to work toward common goals and priorities

• Ensuring that staff understand how their efforts and contributions make a meaningful impact to the business

• Growing core skills and capabilities among staff, particularly in learning agility, problem solving, strategic and creative thinking, flexibility, resilience, effective communication, prioritization, delivery of results, and continuous improvement

• Making accurate evaluations of your team's skills and competencies and providing timely and respectful feedback, including direct delivery of difficult messages

• Developing an understanding of your team's career objectives and serve as a thought-partner in their career development plans

• Assisting staff with preparing for roles of growing responsibility and identifying new opportunities that expand their skills and align with their overall career objectives

• Resolving critical gaps in the organization’s internal capabilities and skillsets, including strategic external recruiting

• Identifying diverse, qualified successors for key positions

• Ensuring that direct reports who also lead people consistently demonstrate these same behaviors with their staff

We understand that to successfully sustain and grow as a global enterprise and deliver for patients — we must ensure a diverse and inclusive work environment.

Our culture is what makes Amgen a special place to work. We have a powerful shared purpose around our mission – to serve patients. We respect one another, recognize contributions, and have embedded collaboration, trust, empowerment, and inclusion in all that we do.

MEANINGFUL IMPACT. To serve patients. We are all deeply committed to our mission: to serve patients.  And we all have opportunities to contribute to that mission in meaningful ways. This creates a powerful sense of shared purpose.

INNOVATIVE: Stretch yourself at the cutting edge. You’re poised to have a high impact in the new Bio century, Amgen offers our people interesting and challenging work.

REPUTATION. Be behind world-renowned products and services. With our industry reputation and strong product pipeline, you can take pride in working at Amgen.

COLLABORATIVE. Work alongside the best. Be part of our highly talented, hard-working teams. Their spirit is what fuels our success.

REWARDING. Get a fair share in success. Everyone’s contribution is recognized – and strong performance is rewarded.

We equip all our staff members to live well-rounded, healthy lives. Most recently, Amgen added benefits for transgender employees and continues to pride itself on industry-leading, family-friendly offerings for families of all compositions.

Amgen focuses on areas of high unmet medical need and uses its expertise to strive for solutions that improve health outcomes and dramatically improve people’s lives. A biotechnology pioneer since 1980, Amgen has grown to be one of the world’s leading independent biotechnology companies, has reached millions of patients around the world and is developing a pipeline of medicines with breakaway potential.

Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider you without regard to your race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Amgen requires all staff in the United States and Puerto Rico to be vaccinated from COVID 19 as a condition of employment. In accordance with applicable law, Amgen will provide reasonable accommodations to staff members who qualify on the basis of a medical reason or a sincerely held religious belief, practice, or observance.  Such accommodation may not pose an undue hardship to Amgen, its operations, or its staff.

Amgen will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.