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Job Description

Job Description:

• Medical Capabilities
  • Drives strategy and execution across the capability, including process alignment across SEA affiliates, standardization, identifying and implementing solutions locally where needed in alignment with product and franchise strategies.
• Medical Operations:
  • Accountable for Regional Medical performance management responsibilities, ensuring standardization, training, quality and timely delivery across various Regional Medical systems and analytics capabilities 
  • Lead regional operations, overseeing budget, resource management (eg, headcount), & process
  • Represent Functional needs and collaborate cross-functionally at key R&D interfaces

Role:

Regional (SEA), located at the Singapore SEA Headquarters

Reports to:

SEA Medical Director

Key responsibilities may include but are not limited to the following activities:

• Execute capability strategies that maximize the value proposition of Amgen's therapies including annual strategic planning and goal setting, global process framework, alignment, and compliance, as well as and systems solutions
• In alignment with global capability, establish, ensure or execute consistent and efficient procedures, systems and infrastructure are in place to support capability.
• Partner with Global Learning and Performance and JAPAC Medical Capabilities teams to help determine the annual strategy and execution of training programs to support capability/staff within region/local
• Ensure broad and deep collaboration with local stakeholders to contribute to / inform and execute strategies
• Ensure Global/Regional/Local input and alignment to strategy, plans, and process, as appropriate to meet program goals on time and within budget
• Champion initiatives and ideas from the field to the headquarters; driving annual objectives and metrics (quantitative and qualitative) for performance as appropriate to capability
• Contribute to developing global organizational strategies for successful implementation of role and programs
• Coach, mentor, motivate and develop talent, as appropriate
• Ensure staff onboarding and ongoing training, contribute geographic expertise to RBC and Blueprints
• Utilize global infrastructure for tracking, measuring and evaluating performance and ensure continuous performance improvement
• Lead implementation of SOPs
• Drive Functional/Management Incentive Plan (MIP) goal setting and initiatives, and track & report progress
• Work with SEA Medical Director to organize Leadership Team and regional meetings to achieve strategic objectives
• Identify, lead or contribute to cross-departmental/functional strategic initiatives/process improvement opportunities
• Partner with Global Medical Operations to represent regional needs and support process roll-out
• Lead innovation to drive staff engagement, support staff development, establish recognition programs; identify and implement platforms for learning and best practice sharing

Minimum Requirements

• Doctorate degree & 2 years of Medical Affairs experience OR

• Master’s degree & 6 years of Medical Affairs experience OR

• Bachelor’s degree & 8 years of Medical Affairs experience

Preferred Requirements

• MD, PhD, PharmD, Masters Degree
• Prior experience in Medical Affairs within the biopharmaceutical industry in the areas of hematology, oncology, cardiovascular or bone
• Understanding of the drug development and commercialization process

Competencies

• Ability to shape and influence vision/strategy
• Demonstrated capability to translate strategy into clear, understandable operational plans in a matrix environment
• Deep understanding of global context and able to translate strategies across geographies
• Embraces rapid, thoughtful decision-making leveraging Amgen DAI method
• Strong leadership and people management skills
• Able to lead through change utilizing effective change management methodologies
• Foster culture of innovation, informed decision making and appropriate risk taking
• Strong cross-functional negotiation skills, ability to skillfully navigate the executive matrix
• High emotional intelligence, robust corporate maturity and savvy, self-awareness with mindset for continuous improvement
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal), strong aptitude for presenting various stakeholders, including executive staff
• Flexible, adaptable and comfortable with ambiguity
• Knowledge of global compliance, safety and regulatory influences that impact capability
• Strong commitment to staff development (direct or indirect)
• Operational excellence: management skills, planning, prioritization, decision making, objective setting, meeting management and plan execution
• Role model successfully working in teams in a complex, multi-functional, global matrix environment
• Delivery / customer service focused
• Continuously expanding medical, scientific, market, external landscape knowledge
• Broad skill set in Medical Affairs, Clinical Development, Drug Safety and Regulatory Affairs
• Role model for others in line with Amgen Values
• Agility in technology and systems
• Ability to manage complex contact center operations
• Forecast and pivot
• Conflict resolution
• Analytical skills
• Medical affairs process
• Field medical activities