Director of Competitive Intelligence

Amgen•Thousand Oaks, CA

6d•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. 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 of Competitive Intelligence What you will do Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will you will lead the Obesity CI team within the Obesity Intelligence and Analytics team, a vital part of Global Commercial Capabilities & Innovation at Amgen. The Competitive Intelligence (CI) team is a strategic thought partner to our cross-functional leadership on high-level business and competitive intelligence issues that influence Amgen’s strategic decisions today and in the future. The team is responsible for ensuring CI research, analysis, and assessments are appropriately factored into business decisions and strategies and help guide optimal business positioning for all therapeutic areas (TAs) across the portfolio and lifecycle. The team will provide unbiased, objective, and expert strategic CI insights, tailormade for the broader cross-functional teams. You will be responsible for strengthening Amgen’s CI capabilities and guiding senior leadership on relevant issues as a trusted advisor by staying abreast of the external perspectives and evolving dynamics. This is a flex-commuter position at Amgen’s Thousand Oaks, CA location, and will require 3 days on campus per week.

Requirements

Doctorate degree and 4 years of competitive intelligence experience OR Master’s degree and 7 years of competitive intelligence experience OR Bachelor’s degree and 9 years of competitive intelligence experience

Nice To Haves

Advanced scientific degree (PhD, PharmD, or equivalent)
2+ years of biopharmaceutical experience in a CI capacity
Strong client service orientation (consulting background)
Exceptionally structured problem-solver and strategically agile
Demonstrate ability to synthesize, analyze, and communicate complex information succinctly to senior leadership
Extensive experience with quantitative and qualitative CI research techniques and projects
Track record of applying competitive intelligence to make, guide, and inform strategic business decisions
Strong ability to influence cross-functionally and manage a full workload
Superior interpersonal skills with the ability to work with diverse teams
Ability to research and analyze knowledge in new therapeutic areas with short turnaround time
Excellent presentation skills, with strong and effective written and verbal communication
Prior experience in successful team building and talent development

Responsibilities

Establish and define capabilities to enable Amgen to be agile and competitive with an acute awareness of the external landscape
Represent CI as a strategic thought partner to cross-functional leadership
Ensure fit-for-purpose, high quality and high impact delivery of CI insights and recommendations that drive strategic decisions across the portfolio
Expand competitive intelligence capabilities at the regional and country level
Lead and develop a team of CI managers, as well as ensuring:
Appropriate allocations of CI team resources in a timely manner to meet business needs
Robust and reliable CI methodology is applied to collect, analyze, and reported with relevant implications to Amgen
Congress planning, workshops, and scenario planning activities are conducted in a timely and targeted manner
Oversee and guide vendor negotiations to drive value-based partnerships; evaluate whether appropriate CI vendor standards are met
Collaborate with Forecasting, Commercial Insights, and Business Development to drive strategic recommendations
Stay abreast of the evolving external perspectives
Abide by and strictly enforce Amgen’s CI Legal and Ethical Guidelines with internal partners and agencies

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.

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