CD&A - Senior Manager, Media Data Acquisition & Governance

Amgen • Thousand Oaks, CA

8h • Hybrid

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. 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. CD&A - Senior Manager, Media Data Acquisition & Governance What you will do Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will lead Amgen’s media data acquisition and governance strategy, ensuring that data from agencies and publishers is accurate, compliant, and effectively leveraged to drive commercial and marketing insights. This role partners cross-functionally with Amgen’s Media Agency of Record, Commercial Data & Analytics (CD&A), Digital Technology & Innovation (DTI), Marketing, and Procurement to ensure Amgen maintains strategic control of its media and publisher data assets. The successful candidate will define the strategic framework for media data governance and acquisition, ensuring alignment to Amgen’s enterprise data standards and enabling actionable analytics across campaigns and channels. Flexible Commuter role to Thousand Oaks, CA or Deerfield, IL office. You will work on-site a minimum of 2-3 days a week.

Requirements

• Doctorate degree and 2 years of experience in data acquisition, digital media, data governance or analytics, ideally within a regulated industry OR Master’s degree and 4 years of experience in data acquisition, digital media, data governance or analytics, ideally within a regulated industry OR Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of experience in data acquisition, digital media, data governance or analytics, ideally within a regulated industry OR Associate’s degree and 10 years of experience in data acquisition, digital media, data governance or analytics, ideally within a regulated industry OR High school diploma / GED and 12 years of experience in data acquisition, digital media, data governance or analytics, ideally within a regulated industry

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree or advanced degree preferred.
• A minimum of 5+ years of experience in data acquisition, digital media, data governance or analytics, ideally within a regulated industry.
• Proven experience working with media agencies, publishers and vendors on data deliverables, negotiations and performance accountability.
• Strong understanding of media data ecosystems (e.g., ad servers, DSPs, SSPs, clean rooms) and ability to engage technical and business stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders in a complex, matrixed environment.
• Familiarity with data privacy, compliance and risk management frameworks as they relate to digital/media data in regulated industries.
• Strategic mindset with strong operational execution ability.
• Experience in Media data acquisition.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, able to translate data/technical issues into business-focused insights.
• Strong project leadership, prioritization and problem-solving skills.
• Highly accountable and results-oriented, with a collaborative and inclusive mindset.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and execution of the media data acquisition and governance strategy to ensure Amgen’s media and publisher data assets support enterprise analytics, performance measurement and strategic decision-making.
• Partner with Media, Marketing, Commercial Data & Analytics (CD&A), Digital Technology & Innovation (DTI) and agency/publisher partners to define data requirements, negotiate deliverables and ensure alignment with business priorities.
• Collaborate with Procurement and Legal to negotiate data rights, usage terms and access requirements within media contracts, protecting Amgen’s long-term data ownership and strategic flexibility.
• Define and oversee media data governance frameworks, policies and standards, aligning with Amgen’s global commercial data governance principles and ensuring compliance with relevant privacy and security regulations.
• Partner with operational governance teams to ensure data lineage, metadata standards, and compliance processes are consistently applied across media data sources and platforms.
• Provide strategic governance oversight and partner with data operations teams to ensure vendor performance, data quality and compliance with enterprise standards.
• Monitor governance KPIs and maturity indicators to assess adherence to policies, escalate data quality or compliance risks, and identify opportunities to automate controls and improve efficiency.
• Serve as the strategic liaison across Media, Marketing, CD&A, DTI and Global Commercial Operations; translate business priorities into data governance initiatives and support measurement, attribution and analytics enablement.
• Stay current on media and ad-tech ecosystem developments including privacy regulations, identity frameworks and clean-room solutions; proactively assess implications and recommend roadmap updates for Amgen’s media data strategy.

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level