• Job Description

  Req#: R-177423

  Career Category

  Strategy and Innovation

  Job Description

  HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?

  If you feel like you are a 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.

  Executive Director, R&D Performance Excellence

  What you will do

  Let’s do this. Let’s change the world.The R&D Strategy and Operations at Amgen is focusing on driving innovation beyond the molecule and applying strategies to simplify processes, improve success rates, accelerating pipeline progression, ultimately expediting the path to patient value and access.

  The Executive Director, R&D Performance Excellence will be primarily responsible for evolving and managing functional transformation, continuous improvement, and performance management across all R&D functions and delivering results that drive peak R&D Operational Excellence globally.

  In this vital role, the Executive Director will lead the R&D Program Management Office, which includes developing the overall R&D Performance ecosystem. including strategies to best enable operational excellence and strategic capability development. They will work in close alignment with Corporate Partners (HR, Finance, Informatics, etc.), Functional leaders, and Business Process Leads to develop an agile and robust R&D Performance Management ecosystem, with a focus on delivering R&D strategic capabilities, robust and efficient operating models, and progressing an agile, data savvy culture.

  This role will report into the Vice President of R&D Operations and Strategy.

  This Executive Director will need to be a visionary in terms of building a simplified future focused on process, digital and data innovation. They will provide leadership in maximizing the value of Amgen’s pipeline and contributing to process innovation. They will work in a fast-paced multidisciplinary environment as the competitive landscape and business strategies keep changing rapidly. This is a high-profile role, which will lead a diverse, global high-performing team that will evolve, shift to meet the needs of the business.

  Responsibilities

  This role will lead multiple teams, and cross functional network(s), to:

  • Lead the development and implementation of the R&D performance management strategy, system and tools, ensuring alignment from functional (Local) to corporate priorities

  • Lead Continuous Improvement Global Network governance and supporting Program Management Office

  • Enable confident decision-making and robust project management and governance processes

  • Enable and monitor performance to ensure delivery of R&D strategic priorities

  • Lead R&D improvement efforts, with a focus on digital innovation and simplification

  • Translate strategy into action, diagnose pain points, co-create solutions, and successfully execute the highest priority efforts to enable innovation and continuous improvement across R&D

  • Promote the understanding, development, and practice of managing process and information to support business strategies

  • Produce presentations and visualizations that are intuitive, effective, and insightful for decision makers throughout the organization

  • Develop the partnerships across Amgen to leverage learning and tools across the broader scientific and business community. Develop new tools for use in answering questions with innovation, value generation and competitive edge as key differentiators.

  • Create prototypes, predictive models, and demonstrations to help articulate the value of insights for advancing the science and business

  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 Executive Director we seek is an experienced leader with the following qualifications. 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

  Basic Qualifications

  • Doctorate degree & 6 years of directly related industry experience OR

  • Master’s degree & 10 years of directly related industry experience OR

  • Bachelor’s degree & 12 years of directly related industry experience AND

  • 6 years of managerial experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, systems-based innovations, programs

  Preferred Qualifications

  • Master’s degree or equivalent in life science or related discipline

  • Seven (7) or more years’ experience in systems-based Transformation, Program and/or Portfolio management in a pharmaceutical industry

  • Executive presence by which one can quickly establish credibility with and influence VP/SVP/EVP level staff

  • Leadership experience in building and developing high performing teams, delivering results, and shaping the future

  • Deep understanding of R&D, drug development, and commercialization process

  • Operations experience within a biotech, pharmaceutical or CRO company

  • Toolsets/skills required to drive organizational change

  • Finance and budget management experience

  • Business process and systems management

  • Expert integrator across people, process, and systems

  • Knowledge of SOPs, good clinical practices, and regulatory requirements

  • Strong understanding of principals of customer service as it applies to internal customers and external partners

  • Strong understanding and experience in the use of performance management techniques, measures, problem solving and analytical thinking

  • Advanced skills in application software and analytical development methodologies

  • Project planning and management

  • Strong data science, data analysis or data management with familiarity of big data, analytics and data mining environments

  • A good understanding of R&D data, deliverables, and business processes

  • Possesses an understanding of business functions and interrelationships between data stores needed to transform data into meaningful intelligence using business intelligence tools

  • Exposure to or evidence of expertise in analytic methods and tools related to R&D, particularly around the use of data, and knowledge of related investigative and regulatory submission challenges

  • Quantitative & qualitative data analysis including continuous data improvement.

  • Strong experience in metrics, reporting, dash-boarding and analytics technologies.

  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.

  The annual base salary range for this opportunity in the U.S. is $242,128 - $286,766.

  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.

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  Salary Range

  242,128.00 USD - 286,766.00 USD

• About the company

  Amgen is one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies. Amgen is a values-based company, deeply rooted in science and innovation to transform new ideas and discoveries into medicines for patients with serious illnesses.

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