Director, Access Strategy & Innovation, Obesity

Amgen • Thousand Oaks, CA

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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. Director, Access Strategy & Innovation, Obesity What you will do Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this high-impact role, you will lead development of new access segments and innovative go-to-market models in the U.S., expanding how Amgen delivers value to employers, partners, and patients. You will define and execute Direct-to-Employer strategies, build differentiated value propositions, and identify strategic partners that enable innovative access solutions. This leader will operate with an enterprise mindset—bringing external perspective, testing new models, and embedding capabilities across the organization. You will partner closely with cross-functional teams to design, pilot, and scale novel access strategies while supporting executive leadership on high-priority innovation initiatives. In addition, you will play a key role in defining processes and integrating capabilities across the Global and US Value & Access organizations to elevate team performance. Your ability to understand big picture business challenges and the data and analytics implications of solutioning against them will be critical to your success in this role, as will an ability to independently move through ambiguity and think creatively to define innovative solutions. You are a highly effective communicator and storyteller, ensuring the potential impact of the team’s work is understood and resonates with cross-functional commercial leadership.

Requirements

• Doctorate degree and 4 years of experience in market access, strategy, consulting, or related commercial leadership roles in healthcare, life sciences, or strategy consulting OR Master’s degree and 7 years of experience in market access, strategy, consulting, or related commercial leadership roles in healthcare, life sciences, or strategy consulting OR Bachelor’s degree and 9 years of experience in market access, strategy, consulting, or related commercial leadership roles in healthcare, life sciences, or strategy consulting

Nice To Haves

• External or industry-focused background with demonstrated ability to introduce new models and ideas.
• Broad, enterprise-level thinker with experience designing and testing new go-to-market approaches.
• Proven ability to execute in ambiguous environments with a strong “roll up your sleeves” mindset.
• Demonstrated ability to build and manage strategic partnerships.
• Strong executive presence with ability to influence across functions and levels.
• Experience in venture capital, life sciences consulting, or strategic advisory environments desirable.
• High learning agility and willingness to experiment and iterate.

Responsibilities

• Design and pilot innovative go-to-market and access models, including partnering with third parties to enable access for patients living with overweight/obesity, beyond traditional payer/PBM segments.
• Lead Direct-to-Employer strategy development, including segmentation, partner selection, and engagement/diligence with external partners.
• Develop and articulate a compelling Employer Value Story aligned to business and patient needs.
• Provide guidance to Value Marketing teams to ensure external-facing value communications support execution of the strategy.
• Identify synergistic go-to-market models across market segments (payer, point solution provider, employer, direct to patient), and collaborate with Access Strategy Leads focused on Cash Pay and Payer/PBM segments.
• Articulate the Obesity Access Strategy within and across new market segments (e.g., employer), competitive positioning, and implications for broader U.S. Commercial priorities.
• Partner cross-functionally with Patient Support, Marketing, Pricing & Contracting, Legal, and other enterprise stakeholders to align commercial strategy with broader business objectives.
• Translate segment and account specific objectives into forecast assumptions (coverage, price, persistence/adherence) and develop key performance indicators.
• Own select strategic Value & Access partnerships and maintain external innovation relationships.
• Develop frameworks and operating standards for access segments within the Value & Access – Obesity and Related Conditions team.
• Embed innovation capabilities and related insights / data analytics across the organization to enable scalable impact.
• Support Executive Director and senior leadership on strategic innovation initiatives and cross-portfolio projects.
• Oversee resource prioritization to ensure timely and effective delivery.

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: Director