Business Performance Senior Director

Amgen•Thousand Oaks, CA

About The Position

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. 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. 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. Business Performance Senior Director What you will do Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role, the Results Delivery Office (RDO) drives transformation and builds critical capabilities that enable Amgen to respond to rapid advancements in science and technology within a rapidly changing business environment. We are looking for a Business Performance Senior Director to join our team of leaders and liaisons, working on these high priority initiatives that drive value through simplification of Amgen’s largest, cross-functional, end-to-end processes. The Business Performance Senior Director will report into the Enterprise Transformation function within RDO and will be assigned to the development and execution of one or more transformation initiatives related to end-to-end processes spanning Operations, R&D, Commercial, and/or Corporate functions.

Requirements

Doctorate degree and 5 years of business strategy or transformation experience OR Master’s degree and 8years of business strategy or transformation experience OR Bachelor’s degree and 10 years of business strategy or transformation experience

Nice To Haves

Biotechnology / Pharmaceutical industry experience (preferred) or other sectors of healthcare industry
Experience leading large-scale, cross-functional transformation initiatives, particularly those enabled by technology, data, and AI
Experience working closely with product management and technical teams (e.g., Digital Product Managers, AI & Data, Technology) to deliver business outcomes
Ability to define business needs and support translating them into clear requirements for data- and technology-enabled solutions
Working knowledge of data, analytics, and emerging AI capabilities, with the ability to apply them in a business and process context
Experience driving process transformation in complex organizational environments
Experience delivering transformational change within organizations
Experience working in fast-changing and often ambiguous environments
Experience advising leaders on strategy and resolution of complex business problems

Responsibilities

Co-lead technology-, data-, and AI-enabled transformation initiatives with the Business Lead and Digital Product Manager
Be a thought partner to the initiative’s Digital Product Manager, Business Lead and Executive Sponsor, shaping strategy, solution direction, and process transformation
Engage sponsors and key stakeholders through effective governance and targeted interactions to drive decisions and build sponsorship
Frame business problems and help define requirements for technology-, data-, and AI-enabled solutions, partnering with AI & Data and Technology teams and the Digital Product Managers in solution development
Identify and resolve initiative issues, offer solutions, and escalate appropriately
Identify resources needed to deliver results, including business, process, and technical capabilities
Lead and coach the Initiative Team through all phases of transformation
Partner to support development of initiative deliverables and drive alignment across workstreams
Select the right transformational capabilities and tools to deliver expected results

Benefits

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 where possible

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