Executive Director, Analytics and Market Research, Cardiovascular Business Unit

Amgen • Deerfield, IL

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About The Position

Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients At Amgen, if you feel like you are a 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. About BAI: Business Analytics & Insights (BAI) at Amgen serves as a strategic partner to Global and Regional leadership, enabling data-driven decision-making across the enterprise. BAI integrates a diverse set of capabilities including forecasting, market research and insights, competitive intelligence, and advanced analytics to provide a comprehensive understanding of markets, customers, and portfolio performance. By translating complex data and market dynamics into actionable insights, BAI helps shape commercial strategy, inform investment decisions, and maximize the value of Amgen’s portfolio across therapeutic areas and geographies. What you will do Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role the Executive Director, US Business Unit POD Lead, is responsible for leading an integrated analytics and primary market research organization aligned to the Cardiovascular Business Unit (CBU). This role serves as the insights and analytics quarterback for the CBU ensuring that data, analytics, and customer insights are integrated into clear, actionable perspectives that drive commercial performance. Each POD Lead oversees Directors responsible for Analytics and Primary Market Research and partners closely with leaders across Commercial, Medical, Forecasting, Value & Access, Finance, and Field Operations to deliver a holistic view of business performance, opportunities, and risks. As a trusted advisor to the Business Unit General Manager and senior leadership team, the POD Lead brings an objective, transparent, and forward-looking perspective on business performance, investment decisions, resource prioritization, and growth opportunities. This role plays a critical part in identifying leading indicators of performance, accelerating decision-making, and enabling the business to act quickly in dynamic market environments. The Executive Director also plays a key role in advancing the organization’s capabilities through the adoption of automation, artificial intelligence, and advanced analytics, leveraging modern technology to accelerate insight generation, strengthen predictive capabilities, and improve the speed and quality of decision-making. In addition, the POD Lead is responsible for executing a global workforce and delivery model, leveraging teams across Amgen’s global delivery centers and strategic partners to scale insights generation with speed, efficiency, and consistency. This includes coordinating work across global sites such as Portugal India, and external partners to ensure optimal resource allocation, high-quality delivery, and operational excellence.

Requirements

• Doctorate degree & 6 years of market research, analytics, competitive intelligence, sales, and/or marketing operations experience OR Master’s degree & 10 years of market research, analytics, competitive intelligence, sales, and/or marketing operations experience OR Bachelor’s degree & 12 years of market research, analytics, competitive intelligence, sales, and/or marketing operations experience
• AND 6 years of managerial experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs or directing the allocation of resources

Nice To Haves

• Ability to influence senior leadership and shape strategic decisions through insights and analytics
• Strategic thinking and business acumen with deep understanding of commercial drivers in the biopharmaceutical industry
• Experience leading insights, analytics, or market research organizations supporting multiple brands or therapeutic areas
• Experience integrating multiple insights capabilities including market research, analytics, forecasting, and competitive intelligence
• Executive communication and storytelling skills with experience presenting to senior leadership
• Experience building and leading global teams across multiple geographies
• Knowledge of drug development, commercialization, and the broader healthcare ecosystem including patients, healthcare providers, and payers
• Experience leveraging advanced analytics, automation, and AI-enabled insights capabilities
• Experience building and developing high-performing teams

Responsibilities

• Lead the Business Unit POD Organization
• Serves as the Strategic Insights Partner to the Business Unit
• Drive Business Performance and Identify Growth Opportunities
• Enable Data-Driven Decision Making Through Technology and AI
• Execute a Scalable Global Delivery Model

Benefits

• 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 and bi-annual company-wide shutdowns
• Flexible work models where possible

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director