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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.

Strategic Planning & Operations Director - R&D Strategy and Operations

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world.

Amgen is seeking a Strategic Planning and Operations Senior Director to advance strategic planning and lead critical capability initiatives for the Research and Development Strategy and Operations (RDSO) organization. The Director reports to the Executive Director, R&D Strategy and Operations and Head of R&D Operations and will support the Vice President of Strategy and Operations.  

R&D Strategy and Operations partners with R&D leadership to enable R&D to develop strategies, progress innovative initiatives, inform performance, make fast decisions and to have a culture that continuously improves. This role is 50% Strategic Planning and 50% Transformation, and is expected to lead and progress key R&D strategic and transformational initiatives.

The Director will partner with Function VP, senior leadership team, and key stakeholders to drive R&D and functional strategic execution, and progress goals and initiatives.

In this role the Director will:

• Work with RDSO leaders to stand up an R&D Strategy and Operations function with the supporting capabilities including Strategic Planning, Performance Management, Continuous Improvement, communication and engagement, among other things.
• Support the RDSO VP in effectively organizing team interaction to achieve the functional objectives
• Build and maintain strong relationships with cross functional stakeholders; proactively communicating, seeking advice, and facilitating critical business decisions.
• Gather, analyze, and synthesize cross-functional information across a variety of sources to turn unstructured business issues and requests into appropriate action plans and projects that result in high quality, meaningful and actionable deliverables.
• Manage stakeholders by clearly communicating status, issues, implications and recommendations. 
• Ensure RDSO project success ( as assigned), by managing risks, removing roadblocks, driving innovative thinking, maintaining fair process, escalating issues and delivering high quality results.
• Adapt to a rapidly changing, fast-moving and often ambiguous environment
• Lead transformation, and continuous initiatives as needed

This position is currently located in our corporate headquarters, located in Thousand Oaks, CA, but alternative locations will be considered for the right candidate.

Win

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek is an agile cross-functional leader with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree and 4 years of Scientific and/or Operations and/or business experience OR
• Master’s degree and 7 years of Scientific and/or Operations and/or business experience OR
• Bachelor’s degree and 9 years of Scientific and/or Operations and/or business experience

Preferred Skills:

• Advanced degree or strong demonstration of equivalent combination of relevant educational and professional training experience in leading cross-functional teams
• 4+ years' of experience in Biotechnology / Pharmaceutical industry, particularly in Research and Development
• 7+ years' of experience in a cross-functional business operations or project management role
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including ability to storyline and prepare executive-level discussion documents
• Strong technical skills leveraging digital tools
• Strong written, verbal and digital communication skills
• Excellent conceptual problem-solving skills with demonstrated ability to bring structure to vaguely defined problems, pragmatically scope problem solving approach, and manage execution
• Strong quantitative and qualitative analytic skills
• Strong leadership skills with a demonstrated ability to influence different styles
• Drug Development knowledge with basic to strong understanding of activities within Research, Preclinical and Clinical Development, Medical and Regulatory
• Independent, motivated, team member with experience in a matrix environment

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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Equal Opportunity Statement

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 a 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 an accommodation.