Business Performance Manager, Human Genetics
About The Position
The Business Performance Manager, Human Genetics, serves as a performance and implementation partner for Human Genetics, translating strategy into coordinated priorities, practical plans, and measurable progress across Amgen R&D. The role connects scientific ambition with the operating mechanisms, decisions, and cross-functional actions needed to put strategy into practice. The manager partners with Human Genetics leadership and R&D functions to develop an integrated roadmap, establishes a performance framework, coordinates implementation across scientific and enabling teams, and facilitates leadership operating rhythms and governance forums. The role also leads or coordinates priority implementation workstreams, identifies barriers and opportunities through stakeholder input and business analysis, and builds repeatable practices for planning, reporting, and continuous improvement. The successful candidate is a trusted partner to scientific and business leaders who brings structure to complex work and helps teams move from agreement to sustained implementation in a fast-moving environment.
Requirements
- Doctorate degree, or a master’s degree and 2 years of relevant experience, or a bachelor’s degree and 4 years of relevant experience, or an associate’s degree and 8 years of relevant experience, or a high school diploma/GED and 10 years of relevant experience.
- Ability to build trust with scientific leaders and translate complex priorities into clear, coordinated execution.
- Experience translating strategy into implementation roadmaps, operating plans, measurable outcomes, and clear accountability across matrixed teams.
- Demonstrated ability to manage complex cross-functional projects or portfolios, including dependencies, risks, resources, milestones, and change adoption.
- Strength in performance management and business analysis, including defining meaningful measures, synthesizing qualitative and quantitative information, and communicating implications.
- Excellent facilitation, stakeholder engagement, and executive communication skills, including framing decisions and explaining complex information clearly.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in biotechnology, pharmaceutical R&D, human genetics, genomics, or a related scientific environment, with an ability to work across scientific and business disciplines.
- Experience improving operating models, governance, processes, or ways of working.
- Project management or change management training or certification.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Human Genetics leadership and R&D functions to turn strategic priorities into an integrated roadmap with clear outcomes, owners, milestones, dependencies, and resource needs.
- Create and maintain a performance framework connecting strategy to measures, milestones, and leading indicators; synthesize progress, risks, and insights into concise decision-support updates.
- Coordinate implementation across discovery research, therapeutic area teams, data and technology, translational science, and enabling functions, aligning contributions and resolving handoffs and dependencies.
- Plan and facilitate leadership operating rhythms, strategy reviews, and cross-functional governance forums; frame decisions, document actions, and follow through on commitments.
- Lead or coordinate priority implementation workstreams from problem definition through adoption, including workplans, risk and issue management, change impacts, communications, and capability building.
- Identify barriers, gaps, and opportunities through stakeholder input and business analysis; develop evidence-based recommendations and escalate decisions with clear options and implications.
- Build repeatable practices for planning, reporting, and continuous improvement so Human Genetics initiatives are transparent, adaptable, and connected to broader R&D priorities.
Benefits
- Health and welfare plans for staff and eligible dependents.
- Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions.
- Group medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Life and disability insurance.
- Flexible spending accounts.
- Discretionary annual bonus program, or a sales-based incentive plan for field sales representatives.
- Stock-based long-term incentives.
- Award-winning time-off plans.
- Flexible work models where possible.
- Career development opportunities.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
High school or GED
