Executive Director, Global Marketing, Early Inflammation Assets Lead

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Job Description

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. In this vital role you will shape the commercial future of Amgen’s inflammation pipeline. The Executive Director, Global Marketing, Early Inflammation Assets Lead is a critical role in the Global Marketing organization that has a significant impact on advancing innovation in the inflammation portfolio. This role will actively shape the newly emerging opportunity areas in the autoimmune and inflammation space. These medications have a significant potential to transform patient care and represent one of the most exciting scientific advancements in the autoimmune and inflammation therapeutic area.

In this role, you will work with and help lead a cross-functional team of leaders to rapidly advance a promising cluster of early-stage assets through to commercialization. As part of this, you will help develop and drive the franchise strategy for these assets. You will also play a key leadership role in numerous product teams (PTs) to drive the advancement of these early inflammation assets. This is a highly visible role in the organization, and requires executive presence, integration, communication, and problem-solving capabilities. It also requires extensive experience in the inflammation space, as well as scientific and business acumen.

In this role you will be responsible for the following:

• Lead rapid advancement of early pipeline assets in the autoimmune space

• Serve as the global marketing lead for asset Product Teams, and in some cases serve as the Product Team lead

• Parter with cross-functional teams (clinical development, research, operations, medical, etc.) to rapidly advance early-stage assets to commercialization

• Contribute to and drive the broader strategy development in the autoimmune space

• Serve as the global commercial lead on cross functional franchise teams to ensure strategic and execution connectivity across various asset teams and therapeutic areas

• Lead global marketing and commercial activities for select early-stage assets, including business case development, forecasting, opportunity assessments, and life cycle management strategy

• Regularly interface with executive leadership in governance meetings to drive decision making and organizational alignment to execution

• Provide Commercial input on Business Development efforts

Key activities and accountabilities include the following:

• Develop and articulate commercial opportunity for products

• Ensure timeliness and quality of key commercial inputs, as well as broader Product Team outputs

• Forge relationships and cross-functional collaboration

• Represent commercial points of view on Product Teams

• Shape cross-functional and commercial strategy for early assets

• Develop business cases, including opportunity assessment and forecasting for early assets

• Regularly interface with executive level governance to drive decisions

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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 global marketing experience OR

• Master’s degree & 10 years of global marketing experience OR

• Bachelor’s degree & 12 years of global marketing experience AND

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

Preferred Qualifications:

• At least ten years of experience in a series of commercial roles of increasing scope, scale, and complexity, with leading companies in the biopharmaceutical industry

• Experience developing and implementing innovative global marketing and commercial strategies for pipeline products in the autoimmune and inflammation space

• Prior experience in commercial roles (marketing, market access) is key, including with early-stage assets

• Scientific acumen and expertise in the autoimmune and inflammation space

• Experience leading cross-functional teams in a matrixed environment, managing global projects involving multiple functions and shared accountabilities.

• An MBA and/or PhD in a scientific field is strongly preferred

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What you can expect of us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for our teammates’ professional and personal growth and well-being. The annual base salary range for this opportunity in the U.S. is $287,903 to $329,676. In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan comprising health and welfare plans for staff and eligible dependents, financial plans with opportunities to save towards retirement or other goals, work/life balance, and career development opportunities including:

• Comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions, group medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts.

• A discretionary annual bonus program, or for field sales representatives, a sales-based incentive plan

• Stock-based long-term incentives

• Award-winning time-off plans and bi-annual company-wide shutdowns

• Flexible work models, including remote work arrangements, where possible

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 does not have an application deadline for this position; we will continue accepting applications until we receive a sufficient number or select a candidate for the position. 

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