Director, Global Diagnostics Strategy Lead - Los Angeles CA

Military Spouse Corporate Career Network • Los Angeles, CA

6d • Onsite

About The Position

In this vital role, the Director, Global Diagnostic Strategy Lead (DxSL) will lead the creation, alignment, and execution of comprehensive global diagnostic strategies for assigned molecules and programs within a disease area or therapeutic area. The DxSL serves as the primary diagnostic strategy point of contact for program teams and governance forums, helping ensure that diagnostic development plans enable clinical development, regulatory approval, launch, commercialization, and lifecycle management of precision therapeutics. The Diagnostics (Dx) Group is responsible for the successful transition of biomarker assays into marketed diagnostics that support therapeutic development strategy, regulatory approval, access, and commercialization.

Requirements

• Doctorate degree and 4 years of pharmaceutical, biotechnology, diagnostics, clinical development, or related experience; OR Master's degree and 8 years of pharmaceutical, biotechnology, diagnostics, clinical development, or related experience; OR Bachelor's degree and 10 years of pharmaceutical, biotechnology, diagnostics, clinical development, or related experience
• Experience with clinical trial design, biomarker-driven enrollment or testing strategies, and integration of diagnostic requirements into therapeutic development plans.
• Excellent executive-level communication, presentation, facilitation, and decision-framing skills.
• Strong project leadership skills, including resource planning, timeline management, risk identification, risk mitigation, and financial awareness.
• Learning agility, organizational savvy, self-awareness, adaptability in changing environments, and an organized work style.

Responsibilities

• Develop and lead integrated, end-to-end diagnostic strategies from early diagnostic need assessment through launch and lifecycle management.
• Partner with Product Teams, program leadership and other decision-making forums, to align therapeutic and diagnostic development objectives.
• Evaluate and propose diagnostic strategic options, including assay and platform approaches, partner strategy, regulatory and commercial pathways, trade-offs, opportunities, costs, timelines, and risks.
• Lead and oversee Dx Development Teams (DxDTs) to ensure tactical execution of the diagnostic development plan and alignment between Rx and Dx development programs.
• Influence decision-making in a matrixed environment by communicating balanced, unbiased assessments of diagnostic opportunities and risks.
• Represent the Dx function with internal stakeholders and external diagnostic development partners.
• Manage, coach, and develop a small team of Dx technical leads, as applicable, while delivering through cross-functional leadership and influence.
• Assess the need for diagnostic development for each assigned molecule or program within the disease area or therapeutic area portfolio.
• Work with cross-functional Dx subject matter experts and program functional leads to build comprehensive, global, long-term diagnostic strategies that support program objectives.
• Document and communicate diagnostic strategy through appropriate templates, decision materials, and executive-ready slide decks.
• Provide strategic input to program teams and governance forums to enable informed decisions on diagnostic development options.
• Oversee DxDTs to ensure delivery of diagnostic development plans, milestones, timelines, risks, mitigations, and interdependencies.
• Partner with Project Management to track risks, mitigations, milestones, timelines, resources, and financials across diagnostic development activities.
• Ensure diagnostic strategies and plans are integrated with therapeutic development plans and clinical trial execution needs.
• Operate within Amgen governance, policy, and decision-making frameworks, including DAI where applicable.
• Work across Amgen functions to identify, evaluate, and select diagnostic development partners as needed.
• Oversee partner-selection activities related to diagnostic development, including workplan development and alignment on scope, roles, and deliverables.
• Lead collaboration with external diagnostic partners to integrate diagnostic development, approval, and launch strategies.
• Ensure diagnostic strategies incorporate global clinical, regulatory, commercial, access, and regional execution requirements.
• Partner with global and regional commercial teams to align on commercial diagnostic strategy, including regional or country gap assessments.
• Lead lifecycle management planning for diagnostic platforms or assays to support program objectives after initial approval and launch.
• Support diagnostic market landscape assessments and business case development for key strategic choices.
• Communicate effectively with Amgen leadership, therapeutic product teams, cross-functional collaborators, and external partners.
• Lead with courage and influence without direct authority across a complex matrix environment.
• Proactively provide balanced and thoughtful input to product teams and other work package teams.
• Actively seek and incorporate input from Dx Regulatory, Drug Regulatory, Clinical, Medical, Commercial, Value and Access, Business Development, Alliance Management, and other stakeholders.

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