Director, GCO Technology Data & Analytics

Amgen • Thousand Oaks, CA

10d

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, Commercial Technology Data & Analytics What you will do Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will be a technology product manager and client-facing lead within the Commercial Data and Analytics team. This role will allow you to flex those creative muscles by promoting FAIR and clean core concepts to evolve and sustain our commercial data ecosystem in support of analytics and new AI/ML capabilities. Are you a technology professional with expertise in commercial domains that is excited to innovate? Come join a team that is passionate about innovation and making life better with technology!

Requirements

• Doctorate degree and 4 years of Life Science/Biotechnology/Pharmacology/Information Systems experience Or Master’s degree and 7 years of Life Science/Biotechnology/Pharmacology/Information Systems experience Or Bachelor’s degree and 9 years of Life Science/Biotechnology/Pharmacology/Information Systems experience
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and critical thinking skills to address complex data challenges applying AI/ML frameworks (e.g. LLM for GenAI, Agent Framworks)
• Stay updated with the latest industry trends and advancements in software technology, provide strategic leadership, and explore new opportunities for innovation
• Be an interdisciplinary team leader who is innovative, accountable, reliable, and able to thrive in a constantly evolving environment
• Exceptional communication and people skills to effectively manage stakeholder relationships and build new partnerships
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills/writing skills; active listening skills; attention to detail.
• Strong process/business writing skills
• Experience in people management and passion for mentorship, culture and fostering the development of talent
• Ability to translate business and stakeholder feedback into accurate and efficient processes using clear language and format
• Strong analytic/critical-thinking and decision-making abilities
• Must be flexible and able to manage multiple activities and priorities with minimal direction in a rapidly changing and demanding environment

Nice To Haves

• Experience leading data and analytics product teams on enterprise platforms such as Databricks
• Experience with insights generation with commercial data sets across all Therapeutic Areas for US brands
• Experience working in an environment requiring strong security controls and de-identification of data
• Experience leading teams in an agile operating model
• Providing oversight for teams that design and deploy technology capabilities that integrate commercial data across the enterprise
• Experience in developing and implementing technology roadmaps and strategies, including data strategies, technology development and rationalization, and end user experience
• Experience managing full DevOps according to structured ITIL / Service Ownership standards
• Experience with semantic modeling, knowledge graphs, and context engineering
• Experience with implementation and tuning of commercial models on Large Language Models (e.g. Databricks AI/BI Genie, OpenAI, Claude)
• Familiarity with low-code, no-code test automation software
• SAFe for Teams certification (preferred)

Responsibilities

• Foster a culture of innovation, identify and implement data and analytics solutions that drive value to our stakeholders
• Co-ordinate end-to-end service delivery from the acquisition and cataloguing of data to the ingestion, quality control, and readiness of that data for consumption into analytics published by Global Commercial Capabilities & Innovation (GCCI)
• Create roadmaps with Technology, AI&D, and Commercial leaders to implement and maintain next generation of data and analytics platforms and technologies
• Plans closely with Technology and AI&D leadership across the Enterprise to drive development of new capabilities and/or continuous improvement anywhere commercial data is required (i.e. product launches, field execution, etc)
• Develops cross-functional governance plans to ensure executive alignment of technology prioritization for GCCI. This includes active relationship-building and engagement with leadership at VP and ED level and down.
• Conducts joint-planning with Technology and business owners to mature and evolve the operating model using the Scaled Agile Framework ( SAFe )
• Manages execution of initiatives with CEO staff level visibility such as AI Data Scaffolding, Performance Analytics, and reporting platform buildout within the Neural Nexus initiative
• Conducts interdependency analysis across multiple product teams in the solution train to ensure coordinated value delivery
• Manages a team of Product Owners that drive prioritization and delivery execution across the portfolio
• Drive the design, development, deployment, and sustainment of scalable data and analytics platforms and reusable accelerators that enable and increase the value of application and product teams

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
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree