Career Category

Job Description

Predictive Real Time Sensing Portfolio Lead

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will drive overall program success by applying program and project management principles to teams, partnering with business and technology leaders to ensure comprehensive alignment, and finding optimized ways to deliver efficiency and quality for our partners. You will own and lead all process, financial, and governance aspects of the Predictive Real Time Sensing Digital Innovation initiative.

We are seeking a Sr. Program Manager in our Thousand Oaks, CA headquarters or Tampa, FL of remote in the US to join our Predictive Real Time Sensing team to help drive productivity through the company using technology to unlock opportunities to stop, optimize processes and then automate as appropriate. Are you eager to take your program management, continuous improvement & SAFE-Agile, Financial management skills and use them in creative new ways to build groundbreaking software that helps develop life-changing biotech medicines? If so, this may be the right place for you.

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for the agile execution of the Predictive Real Time sensing capability across multiple agile teams and scrum masters.

• Manage the key system integrators that will be key suppliers of delivering the sensing capability

• Work closely with PM’s, software engineers, architects and technical SMEs, to deliver optimized digital solution.

• Track, Measure and extract value via KPI’s, $’s that can be communicated to executive leadership

• Implement, grow, and mature agile execution frameworks, including process, resourcing, and governance for the program teams

• Manage program finances to ensure compliance with budget, forecasts, and cash flow standards as part of the Operations DTI Data and Analytics capability

• Establish and solidify program funding and execution processes to align with Information Systems requirements

• Implement framework for monitoring overall program execution status to program leadership

• Mentor/coach junior project management or scrum masters

A day in the life:

• You are leading from the front engaging with business functions across the company to help deliver Sensing capabilities for Amgen

• Partnering with strategy group at Amgen and business partners to deliver initiatives

• Lead a team of PM’s, Communication resources to ensure structure of how we operate within the program

• Drive financial compliance/adherence of the program via the various projects

• Own overall Program roadmap and communicate program status/milestones to executive leadership

• Ensure products teams are operating in the spirit of Agile and have backlogs that are being handled optimally.

About the Team:

The Predictive Real Time Sensing team is part of the Digital technology and Innovation organization at Amgen that is focused on improving decision making for our senior leadership through providing faster access to data, anticipating key opportunities and predicting actions. This is a highly visible team with a remit to help shape the future pipeline of Amgen products by unlocking value

Our customers include Amgen staff and various organization within functions such as Amazon's internal and external financial community across the globe. Our teams are group of high-energy, motivated doers that want to improve the lives of our partners through data and digital technologies.

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The Product Owner or Scrum Master professional we seek is an Agile methodology authority with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree and 2 years of Information Systems experience

OR Master’s degree and 6 years of Information Systems experience

OR Bachelor’s degree and 8 years of Information Systems experience

OR Associate’s degree and 10 years of Information Systems experience

OR High school diploma / GED and 12 years of Information Systems experience

And

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

Preferred Qualifications:

• Fluent in Agile methodologies with respect to technology solutions and their development and timeline.
• Experience as a Product Owner or Scrum Master advantageous.
• Strong written and oral communication skills with scientific domain expertise to communicate effectively with various partners within the organization
• Self-motivated individual with demonstrated ability to learn new concepts and technologies, work multi-functionally in teams (internal and external)
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills, including the ability to concisely present various subjects to leadership and coordinate all functional leads to provide requested data/updates
• Skilled with building business cases for funding initiatives within an executive forum
• Experienced in leading multiple product-focused, agile teams of up to 50+ individuals (e.g. 7 teams of 7 people) using a flexible approach ranging from servant leadership to directive depending on the situation – both directly and through a team of scrum masters
• Understanding and experience in project management with software development teams with a deep experience and passion around Scrum and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe),
• You will have a consultant attitude, with the ability to clarify and control a diverse and shifting program lifecycle. Creativity and flexibility will be key components to excelling in this role.

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.

careers.amgen.com