Director, Preclinical

Amgen • Thousand Oaks, CA

12h • Onsite

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. Director, Preclinical What you will do The Director, Preclinical provides veterinary leadership supporting research and development activities at Amgen Thousand Oaks (ATO) through expert oversight of laboratory animal medicine, animal welfare, and regulatory compliance. This onsite role combines strategic preclinical leadership with hands-on clinical veterinary responsibilities, serving as Attending Veterinarian while directly supporting high-quality, ethical, and compliant animal research. The position is embedded within Translational Safety & Risk Science (TSRS). The role reports directly to the Comparative Medicine ATO Site Head, with matrix reporting to Amgen’s Institutional Official. The regulatory compliance, training, enrichment and veterinary technical teams report directly to this role.

Requirements

• PhD, DVM or VMD and 4 years of related experience Or Master’s degree and 8 years of related experience Or Bachelor’s degree and 10 years of related experience
• In addition to meeting at least one of the above requirements, you must have at least 4 years experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs, or directing the allocation or resources.
• Your managerial experience may run concurrently with the required technical experience referenced above

Nice To Haves

• DVM or VMD from AVMA-accredited institutions
• ACLAM board certification or eligibility
• Current veterinary licensure in at least one state
• 10+ years of laboratory animal medicine experience, preferably in industry settings
• Ability to travel internationally
• Experience in pharmaceutical or biotechnology settings in institutions with AAALAC accreditation and are a USDA registered.
• Current veterinary licensure in California
• USDA Accreditation Veterinarian (Category 2) or the bility to obtain within 6 months of hire

Responsibilities

• Attending Veterinarian Serve as the Attending Veterinarian for the Amgen Thousand Oaks, CA (ATO) IACUC.
• Ensure protocol quality, humane endpoints, and drive a culture of continuous improvement in Refinements (3Rs) of animal models.
• Lead the regulatory programs to ensure compliance with USDA/Animal Welfare Act, AAALAC, and other requirements.
• Provide expert veterinary input to discovery and preclinical development programs.
• Ensure inspection readiness, audits, and accreditation activities; directly lead inspectors and site visits by accrediting bodies.
• Oversee investigations of animal welfare concerns and CAPA development.
• Participate in external partner audits supporting ATO-based studies.
• Veterinary Care Deliver direct clinical veterinary care for rodent and non-rodent species.
• Drive continuous improvements for enrichment and behavioral management programs.
• Provide biosecurity and disease prevention oversight.
• Contribute to the veterinary on-call program.
• Training, Technical Excellence, and Refinement Directs the technical training and development program for in vivo research at ATO.
• Mentor and develop scientists in vivo technical excellence grounded in a culture of care that spans animal welfare, self care, and care for colleagues.
• Proactively drives organizational readiness for novel models with technical readiness and refinements.
• Strategic leadership Foster cross-functional partnerships to ensure the program is undergoing continuous improvements in animal welfare, compliance, and execution excellence.
• Develop direct reports in technical excellence, continuous improvement, and career development.
• Deliver program performance through directly through management and indirectly with partnerships.

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