Clinical Imaging Director

Amgen • Thousand Oaks, CA

93d • $181,800 - $232,622

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.

Requirements

• Doctorate degree PhD OR PharmD OR MD and 5 years of biomedical or imaging-related field experience.
• Master’s degree and 8 years of biomedical or imaging-related field experience.
• Bachelor’s degree and 10 years of biomedical or imaging-related field experience.

Nice To Haves

• An advanced degree (i.e., MSc or Ph.D.) with 7+ years of experience in clinical imaging research working within a pharmaceutical company.
• Proven track record of successfully leading and managing clinical trials with a deep understanding the workflows which allow different teams to successfully collect and analyze imaging data.
• Proven leadership experience in the utilization of molecular imaging as a quantitative biomarker in clinical trials.
• Experience with the utilization of clinical MR imaging in evaluation of clinical endpoints and investigation of suspected adverse events.
• Experience in utilization of imaging in obesity and rare diseases.

Responsibilities

• Expand Amgen’s end to end imaging process to all non-oncology TAs and integrate into wider clinical development procedures.
• Represent clinical imaging on process improvement initiatives.
• Standardize internal document templates and imaging vendor documentation for common imaging readouts.
• Establish new procedures and documentations for novel or updated imaging procedures/criteria.
• Serve as a SME while supporting strategic sourcing and vendor management teams in vendor capability/quality evaluations.
• Develop training materials for imaging methods and endpoints to educate team members on expected/appropriate imaging strategies in clinical trials.
• Work closely with precision medicine, statistics, clinical development, regulatory and clinical operation leads to formulate appropriate imaging biomarker strategies.
• Lead, design and implement multi-modality imaging measures as endpoints for clinical studies in a variety of TAs.
• Contribute to clinical biomarkers and diagnostics strategy by evaluating novel imaging modalities, novel image analysis tools and artificial intelligence tools.

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.
• Flexible spending accounts.
• A discretionary annual bonus program.
• Stock-based long-term incentives.
• Award-winning time-off plans.
• Flexible work models, including remote and hybrid work arrangements.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees