Executive Director, Global Marketing Lead UPLIZNA

Amgen • Deerfield, IL

4d • $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 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.

The Executive Director, Global Marketing Lead (GML) for UPLIZNA, 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” across indications, markets, and functions to maximize asset value and enable consistent, disciplined execution worldwide.
Operating within Amgen’s Global-with-Local model, 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 GML leads a highly matrixed organization across UPLIZNA’s three approved indications, ensuring cohesive brand strategy with appropriate differentiation by indication and will be responsible for future lifecycle strategies.
The GML partners closely with the Global Product Team Lead (GPTL) to ensure tight alignment between product strategy, governance decisions, and commercial execution, while retaining clear ownership of global brand and market strategy.

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 three 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 the Integrated Brand Team (IBT) and Brand Working Group (BWG), setting clear commercial priorities and executional focus
• Serve as the primary global marketing interface with key markets lead and business unit directors for the top 8 markets, enabling strong collaboration, trust, and transparency
• Represent commercial in key alliance partnerships
• 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
• 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
• Drive a “ONE Commercial Voice,” integrating country perspectives into a cohesive global strategy
• Ensure strong global consistency while enabling thoughtful local customization
• Enable best-practice sharing, capability building, and commercial excellence across markets
• Partner with regional and country leaders to ensure global strategy is executable and scaled effectively
• Engage with key external stakeholders, including key opinion leaders (KOLs), patient advocacy organizations, and strategic partners, to strengthen brand credibility and impact
• Represent the UPLIZNA 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, building 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 UPLIZNA
• Orchestrates cross-functional and multi-country commercial 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