Director of Marketing – Global Biosimilars, Commercial Strategy and Capabilities

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Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients

At Amgen, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do.

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. As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives.

Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

Director of Marketing – Global Biosimilars, Commercial Strategy and Capabilities

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world! Amgen’s Biosimilars Business Unit (BBU) is an integrated BU that manages assets from development to commercial readiness to deliver for patients. Amgen’s current biosimilars portfolio of 8 launched and 3 pipeline biosimilars is poised to deliver ~$4B in revenue by 2030. We are seeking to build upon this success and expand upon this growth in the decade to follow.

To accomplish this goal, this newly-framed Director of Marketing role will spearhead the evolution of commercial capabilities needed for the BBU to succeed in our dynamically evolving marketplace. Importantly, this role will champion the development of new commercial capabilities to support the desired growth for the BBU portfolio. This Director role will have responsibilities for leading the long-range planning efforts involved in evaluating, recommending and driving the implementation of strategic options to ensure the long-term commercial success of the global biosimilars portfolio. The Director will put the customer at the center of our efforts, ensuring that insights and analytics are used to inform our strategic choices and decisions while leveraging the latest technology in a manner to accomplish this efficiently and expediently.

Reporting to the Executive Director for the Global Biosimilars Commercial Lead, this position will lead a team of 3 team members.

Key responsibilities include:

• Lead LRS process, collaborating with cross-functional and regional partners to ensure alignment on assumptions

• Support development of strategies to identify commercial potential while also flagging relevant risks and opportunities

• Serve as primary point of contact for all commercial analytical and insights needs, partnering with SME leads where needed (e.g. primary market research)

• Lead competitive intelligence function for BBU, supporting product teams (PTs) for pipeline and launch products

• Support the development of new dashboarding using AI wherever appropriate to ensure we measure and track our efforts and enable learnings for the future

• Support ad hoc requests from various BBU stakeholders

• Remain current on all of the latest developments in the biosimilar industry

• Organize and facilitate strategic exercises and competitive simulations to generate competitive insights and plans

• Spearhead the development and implementation of the technology roadmap for BBU needs, including artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), automation, and digital tools

• Serve as the strategic lead for embedding automation and advanced analytics into core BBU workflows, partnering closely with GCC and ATMOS leads as appropriate

• Champion change management needs for the adoption of our technology platforms as enablers for our strategic portfolio plan across functions of the BBU organization

• Devise and foster enhanced ways of working across the BBU for commercial and analytical purposes to support future growth and while facilitating efficiencies

• Develop productive relationships with key stakeholders (commercial, medical, regional, and other matrix partners) to define business problems and develop integrated analytical plans based on best practice methodologies

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 strategic and collaborative leader with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree and 4 years of Marketing, Analytics, or Strategy Consulting experience

Or

Master’s degree and 8 years Marketing, Analytics, or Strategy Consulting experience

Or

Bachelor’s degree and 10 years Marketing, Analytics, or Strategy Consulting experience

In addition to meeting at least one of the above requirements, you must have at least 4 years experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs, or directing the allocation or resources. Your managerial experience may run concurrently with the required technical experience referenced above

Preferred Qualifications:

• 10+ years of biotech/pharmaceutical industry experience with strong management skills

• Deep understanding of marketing and strategy concepts

• Demonstrated ability to think strategically and analyze data to support key business decisions

• Proven business savvy skill set

• Creative problem-solving skills

• Strong interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to work effectively across the matrix

• Strong leadership skills, including ability to influence teams with diverse backgrounds

• Excellent oral, written, and presentation skills—able to explain complex concepts clearly to a variety of audiences

• Ability to work collaboratively in team-based environment

• Proven project management skills—able to manage multiple large projects simultaneously

• Demonstrated analytical skills—understands the advantages and limits of different analytical approaches and studies

• Broad, working knowledge of commonly used biopharmaceutical industry databases

• Understanding of at least one other functional area in business analytics and insights (i.e.: market research, forecasting, marketing analysis)

• Experience in insights generation for the biopharmaceutical (or other healthcare) industry

• Knowledge of oncology market

What you can expect of us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for your professional and personal growth and well-being. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we’ll support your journey every step of the way.

The expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is posted. Actual salary will vary based on several factors including but not limited to, relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan, based on eligibility, comprising of 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 that may include:

• A 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

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

Apply now and make a lasting impact with the Amgen team.

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Application deadline

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.

As an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people around the world, Amgen fosters an inclusive environment of diverse, ethical, committed and highly accomplished people who respect each other and live the Amgen values to continue advancing science to serve patients. Together, we compete in the fight against serious disease.

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