Executive Director, Product Team Lead

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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.

Executive Director, Product Team Lead

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What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. As the Executive Director, Product Team Lead, (PTL) you will serve as the single leader for the cross functional Product Team with accountability for product strategy and leadership throughout the product lifecycle.

The PTL is a critical role in the organization that has a significant impact on a product or set of products, at all stages of the product lifecycle. You will be responsible for developing and delivering product strategy and for providing exceptional cross functional team leadership.

Responsibilities

• Deliver an integrated product strategy which considers near and long-term broad, cross functional impacts and region and country perspectives, accountability for the product value, profitability / product assumptions

• Ensure strategy and assumptions are executable

• Develop and articulate strategic options to make the best trade-off decisions for Amgen, global value and risk profile

• Manage and set clear communicating goals that align with a vision, and delivering proactive program communications to functions, countries and regions.

• Communicate decisions to all cross-functional team members and stakeholders

• Generate focused communication of program needs and recommendations to executive management

• Responsible for identifying what decisions are at the product, portfolio, functional, or regional levels, by utilizing the Amgen DAI decision making framework for product decisions and to accurately assess risk related to program decisions

Win

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The candidate we seek is an experienced leader with the following qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree & 6 years of drug commercialization related experience OR

• Master’s degree & 10 years of drug commercialization related experience OR

• Bachelor’s degree & 12 years of drug commercialization 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:

• Ability to synthesize different points of view to make sound and objective decisions

• Ability to navigate within a highly matrixed environment

• Understanding of the business and end-to-end drug commercialization

• Experience with formulating integrated, cross-functional strategies

• Communication and presentation skills

• Ability to lead with courage and can comfortably confront and work through conflict, and is not afraid to make tough decisions and take quick action

• Deliver results through effective team and peer leadership and effective decision making

• Ability to synthesize different points of view to make sound and objective decisions

• Navigate within a highly matrixed environment

• Understanding of the business and end-to-end drug commercialization

• Experience with formulating integrated, cross-functional strategies

They will also embody the Amgen leadership attributes which are:

• Inspire: Create a connected, inclusive, and inspiring work environment that empowers talent to thrive

• Accelerate: Enable speed that matches the urgency of patient needs by encouraging progress over perfection

• Integrate: Connect the dots to amplify the collective power of Amgen to drive results for patients, staff, and shareholders

• Adapt: Lead through change by adapting to an ever-changing environment and defining a clear course of action to deliver results

Thrive

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 $244,976 - $313,093.

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’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.

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 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 anticipates accepting applications until this role is filled; however, we may continue accepting applications beyond this date if we do not receive a sufficient number of candidates.

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