Executive Director, Global Marketing Lead (GML) for TEZSPIRE

Amgen • Thousand Oaks, CA

7d • $288,619 - $390,485

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 pioneered 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.

The Executive Director, Global Marketing Lead (GML) for TEZSPIRE, is a critical commercial leadership role within Amgen’s Global Marketing organization, responsible for shaping and executing the global commercial strategy across the product lifecycle. As the global brand steward, the GML provides a unified “ONE Commercial Voice” and strategic direction across indications, markets, and functions to maximize asset value and enable consistent, disciplined execution worldwide. The GML translates enterprise product strategy into clear global commercial direction, integrating global strategy with local insights to advance global expansion efforts and patient impact. The role also carries clear alliance leadership accountability for the AstraZeneca partnership, ensuring Amgen’s commercial priorities are represented in joint governance and that TEZSPIRE strategy is coordinated across North America co-commercialization, AstraZeneca-led commercialization outside North America, AstraZeneca-led development, and Amgen-led manufacturing. The GML leads a highly matrixed organization across TEZSPIRE’s approved indications, ensuring cohesive brand strategy with appropriate differentiation by indication and will be responsible for future lifecycle strategies, including new indications and potential new line extension opportunities. The GML partners closely with the Product Team Lead (PTL) to ensure tight alignment between product strategy, governance decisions, and commercial execution, while retaining clear ownership of global brand and market strategy. In addition, there could be potential opportunities in the future for expanded responsibilities to include the PTL representative for the franchise.

Requirements

• Doctorate degree and 6 years of Global Marketing experience OR Master’s degree and 10 years of Global Marketing experience OR Bachelor’s degree and 12 years of Global Marketing experience
• 6 years of managerial experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs or directing the allocation of resources

Responsibilities

• Own and lead development and execution of the Global Brand Plan (GBP) across all approved indications
• Define global patient segmentation, positioning, messaging, value propositions, and brand architecture
• Lead global launch readiness and in-line brand optimization, ensuring strong differentiation and scalability
• Drive alignment across approved indications, ensuring consistency where required and intentional differentiation where warranted
• Serve as the global commercial decision-maker for brand strategy choices, within the context of enterprise product strategy
• Lead and coordinate preparations for competition across TEZSPIRE indications
• Lead development of cross functional/cross alliance ambition plans for TEZSPIRE and any new anti-TSLP franchise brands to optimize near and long-term opportunities
• Represent as commercial Respiratory subject matter expert at Amgen
• Own the forecast for TEZSPIRE and related anti-TSLP brands
• Lead the Joint Commercial Committee (JCC) with AstraZeneca and the Integrated Brand Team (IBT) setting clear commercial priorities and executional focus
• Represent Amgen Commercial in the AstraZeneca alliance and other key partnership forums, ensuring brand, indication, market, and lifecycle priorities are clearly advanced
• Build and sustain strong cross-functional partnerships with Medical, Value & Access, Regulatory, Analytics, and Insights
• Provide clear commercial perspectives and recommendations into Product Team discussions and governance forums, in partnership with the GPTL
• Serve as Amgen’s senior global commercial lead for the AstraZeneca alliance, building a trusted, transparent partnership anchored in patient impact, enterprise strategy, and disciplined decision-making
• Represent Amgen Commercial in joint governance forums, preparing senior leaders with clear recommendations, commercial implications, decision rights, and trade-off analysis
• Partner with AstraZeneca to align global brand planning, North America co-commercialization, and commercialization strategy outside North America, ensuring TEZSPIRE plans are coordinated across regions, indications, and lifecycle opportunities
• Translate AstraZeneca-led development plans, Amgen-led manufacturing considerations, regulatory milestones, and evidence-generation priorities into actionable commercial implications for markets and regions
• Anticipate and resolve alliance issues across timing, resourcing, investment, messaging, launch readiness, and lifecycle expansion, ensuring decisions are documented and commitments are followed through
• Orchestrate development of the GBP by integrating market insights, analytics, forecasting, and cross-functional inputs
• Communicate a clear global commercial vision and ensure disciplined execution across regions and markets
• Lead global market research strategy, forecasting, and brand investment optimization
• Translate enterprise product decisions into actionable commercial implications for markets and regions
• Deliver commercial recommendations and implications to governance bodies, aligned with GPTL-led product decisions
• Engage with key external stakeholders, including key opinion leaders (KOLs), patient advocacy organizations, and strategic partners, to strengthen brand credibility and impact
• Represent the TEZSPIRE brand and Amgen at key industry forums, congresses, and external engagements, shaping the external narrative and enhancing visibility
• Lead and develop a high-performing, matrixed global marketing organization across indications
• Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, and innovation across functions and geographies
• Coach and develop talent, build strong succession and future-ready leadership capability
• Drive execution excellence to maximize brand performance and patient impact
• Acts as the global commercial leader and brand steward for TEZSPIRE
• Orchestrates cross-functional efforts to deliver results
• Partners with the GPTL to ensure seamless connection between enterprise product strategy and commercial execution

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: Executive
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree