Amgen
Senior Manager, Strategic Planning & Operations, Inflammation Research
US - California - San Francisco · Senior
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About the role
- Since 1980, we've helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world's toughest diseases.
- With our focus on four therapeutic areas -Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease- we reach millions of patients each year.
- Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline of medicines to treat cancer, heart disease, inflammatory conditions, rare diseases, and obesity and obesity-related conditions.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a trusted advisor and thought partner on portfolio, organizational, capability, and investment decisions.
- Partner with scientific leaders to identify capability gaps, evaluate innovation opportunities, and encourage adoption of emerging technologies and best practices.
- Leverage AI-enabled tools and operational systems to improve portfolio management, project reviews, knowledge synthesis, decision support, and operating efficiency.
- Support external collaborations by helping track scientific progress, milestones, budgets, risks, and decision points in partnership with scientific and business stakeholders. Enhancing organizational effectiveness and culture
- Drive leadership team effectiveness, operating cadence, and cross-functional alignment across the Inflammation TA.
- Lead high-priority special projects involving organizational design, talent strategy, capability building, change management, and operational improvement.
- Partner with scientific and portfolio leaders to surface risks, opportunities, tradeoffs, and resource requirements while supporting informed and timely decision-making.
- A biotechnology pioneer since 1980, Amgen has grown to be one of the world's leading independent biotechnology companies, has reached millions of patients around the world and is developing a pipeline of medicines with breakaway potential.
- Support external collaborations by helping track scientific progress, milestones, budgets, risks, and decision points in partnership with scientific and business stakeholders.
- Lead business operations and executive communications
Requirements
- Operationalize portfolio governance and planning Enable effective portfolio governance by coordinating the processes, analytics, operating mechanisms, and follow-through required to support leadership decisions.
Nice to have
- Demonstrated experience in strategic planning, portfolio management, governance, operations, budgeting, resource planning, and performance management in an R&D organization.
- Scientific credibility and ability to synthesize complex scientific, operational, and business information into actionable recommendations for senior leaders.
- Experience leading and influencing cross-functional teams in a global, matrixed, rapidly changing environment with a high tolerance for ambiguity.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including preparation of executive presentations, business reviews, governance materials, and strategic communications.
- Experience with change management, organizational effectiveness, talent planning, leadership team operating cadence, and culture-building initiatives.
- Passion for innovation, technology, AI-enabled discovery, operational excellence, and new ways of working that improve scientific quality and speed.
- High proficiency with Microsoft Office, SharePoint, Smartsheet, collaboration tools, data visualization tools, and AI-enabled productivity or knowledge-synthesis tools.
- You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.
Compensation
- 149,976.55USD -202,909.45 USD Amgen is committed to unlocking the potential of biology for patients suffering from serious illnesses by discovering, developing, manufacturing and delivering innovative human therapeutics.
- Partner directly with the VP Research and Inflammation Leadership Team to define, execute, and track TA strategy, annual goals, long-range priorities, and operating mechanisms.
Benefits
- Develop portfolio dashboards, KPI metrics, risk assessments, and reporting tools that provide timely visibility into portfolio health, execution, and organizational performance.
- Establish practical processes, tools, and ways of working that improve transparency, accountability, learning, and execution across the TA.
Company info
- Career Category Scientific Job Description Join Amgen's Mission of Serving Patients At Amgen, if you feel like you're part of something bigger, it's because you are.
- If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you'll thrive as part of the Amgen team.
- What we expect of you We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Sponsorship Sponsorship for this role is not guaranteed.
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