Executive Director, Brand Lead – Nplate, Vectibix, and Lumakras

Amgen•Thousand Oaks, CA

3d•$264,534 - $355,194

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-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. What you will do Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this leadership role, the Executive Director, Brand Lead will be accountable for driving strategy, performance, and innovation across Nplate®, Vectibix®, and Lumakras®. Within the Lifecycle Value Lab construct, these brands have additional lifecycle management opportunities to be advanced through new indications, evidence generation, sales force engagement, and omnichannel experimentation, which will be key levers and deliverables of success in this leadership role. As a senior leader in the Lifecycle Value Lab, you will drive business performance while advancing LVL’s mission to generate scalable commercial insights. You will lead a highly matrixed, cross-functional team to identify growth opportunities, run disciplined experiments, and turn findings into sustained performance across traditional and emerging channels. Success in this role requires a strategic and adaptive leader who can balance and advance business performance and transformation, leveraging real-world experimentation to shape future commercial models across Amgen. The Executive Director will be a member of the Lifecycle Value Lab Leadership Team and will play a critical role in shaping the culture, operating model, and long-term evolution of this groundbreaking business unit.

Requirements

Doctorate degree and 6 years of marketing experience OR Master’s degree and 10 years of marketing experience OR Bachelor’s degree and 12 years of marketing experience
6 years of managerial experience directly managing people and/or leading teams, programs, or resource allocation
Ability to lead at scale, including managing leaders and complex, multi-brand portfolios, with an emphasis on field integration and pull through
Experience shaping strategy and influencing senior stakeholders and executives
Experience building and scaling modern marketing capabilities and innovation frameworks
Experience driving data-driven decision-making and experimentation at scale
Experience in lifecycle management and long-term asset optimization
Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-paced, and highly matrixed environments
Executive communication, presence, and stakeholder management skills

Responsibilities

Lead the overall commercial strategy, performance, and experimentation opportunities for Nplate, Vectibix, and Lumakras
Advance integrated brand strategies that maximize patient impact throughout the lifecycle
Establish portfolio priorities, performance objectives, and success metrics aligned with enterprise goals
Continuously evaluate lifecycle and market dynamics, competitive trends, customer insights, and emerging opportunities to optimize performance
Own portfolio forecasting, business planning, resource allocation, and investment decisions
Champion LVL's purpose-built mission of leveraging agile operating models, modern technologies, and disciplined experimentation to accelerate product performance
Build and Shepard portfolio-wide experimentation agenda designed to generate actionable insights and scalable commercial capabilities
Foster a culture that embraces learning, encourages intelligent risk-taking, and values both successful outcomes and productive failures
Evaluate new technologies, embrace, and become fluent in AI-enabled capabilities
Ensure learnings are systematically captured, shared, and scaled across the broader USBO organization
Lead an integrated promotional strategy across sales, digital, media, and emerging channels into a cohesive customer experience.
Partner closely with Sales Leadership to ensure alignment between field execution and portfolio strategy.
Optimize channel mix and engagement strategies through data-driven decision making and ongoing experimentation
Lead a highly integrated matrix team spanning Marketing, Sales, Medical, Market Access, Digital, Analytics, Patient Support, Corporate Affairs, Regulatory, Legal, and Operations
Build strong partnerships across therapeutic areas and business units to maximize organizational learning and impact
Support open debate and drive alignment with stakeholders around strategic priorities and resource decisions
Serve as a visible champion for the Lifecycle Value Lab Business Unit across Amgen
Build, inspire, and develop a high-performing team committed to innovation, accountability, and executional excellence
Create an inclusive environment where diverse perspectives are valued and individuals are empowered to contribute their best work
Coach and develop future commercial leaders through stretch opportunities, experimentation, and continuous learning
Lead through ambiguity and change while maintaining focus on business outcomes and patient impact