Executive Director Marketing Repatha Brand Lead

Amgen • Thousand Oaks, CA

5d • $262,534 - $355,194 • Hybrid

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 future of cardiovascular disease.In this vital role for Amgen, the Executive Director, Repatha Brand Lead will help shape the future growth trajectory of one of the company’s most strategically important franchises. Repatha is a market-leading Lipid lowering inhibitor with proven cardiovascular outcomes benefits and a significant opportunity to transform LDL-C management across the U.S. healthcare system.The lipid-management landscape is entering a period of unprecedented change. Emerging therapies, evolving treatment guidelines, new quality measures, expanding cardiometabolic screening infrastructure, and increasing focus on preventive care are poised to dramatically expand the category and redefine how patients are identified, treated, and managed.The Executive Director will lead the Repatha brand through this next era of growth — helping accelerate earlier LDL-C intervention, broaden appropriate adoption, and accelerate Repatha’s leadership in a rapidly evolving marketplace.This role has leadership responsibility for driving all aspects of U.S. brand strategy and execution while leading a high-performing cross-functional marketing organization. The Executive Director will work closely with Commercial, Medical, Market Access, Value & Access, Digital, Data & Analytics, Sales, and R&D leadership to deliver against ambitious growth objectives and unlock the next wave of category expansion.

Requirements

• Doctorate degree & 6 years of Marketing experience OR Master’s degree & 10 years of Marketing experience OR Bachelor’s degree & 12 years of Marketing experience
• 6 years of managerial experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs or directing the allocation of resources
• Minimum eight years of experience in a series of commercial roles of increasing scope, scale, and complexity, with leading companies in the bio-pharmaceutical or health and wellness industry
• Experience developing and implementing innovative commercial strategies within highly competitive markets where innovation and marketing prowess are a key factor of success
• Consumer and Healthcare Provider marketing, strategic and tactical implementation roles, with an emphasis on uncovering novel and motivating customer insights and executing integrated multi-touch point initiatives to move an apathetic market
• Understanding of US market access, pricing, and reimbursement environment
• Experience leading cross-functional teams in a matrix environment; managing projects involving multiple functions and shared accountabilities

Nice To Haves

• Cardiovascular therapeutic area is preferred

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and execution of bold, future-oriented strategies that drive sustainable revenue growth, market leadership, and long-term franchise profitability
• Shape the future vision for Repatha within an evolving lipid-management ecosystem that includes new entrants, earlier treatment intensification, quality measure evolution, and expanding preventive cardiology pathways
• Drive growth across strategically important patient segments including ASCVD, familial hypercholesterolemia, statin-intolerant patients, diabetes populations, and other high-risk cardiometabolic groups by accelerating patient identification, treatment intensification, and appropriate PCSK9 adoption
• Develop and execute integrated brand strategies spanning positioning, messaging, omnichannel engagement, forecasting, lifecycle planning, market access, and healthcare economics initiatives
• Lead development of breakthrough multichannel marketing campaigns and next-generation customer engagement strategies that leverage AI, advanced analytics, personalization, and emerging digital technologies to improve HCP engagement, patient activation, and commercial effectiveness at scale
• Partner closely with Market Access, Medical Affairs, R&D, Digital, Data & Analytics, and Commercial Excellence teams to strengthen evidence generation, expand patient access, and identify innovative engagement models that create competitive advantage
• Collaborate with U.S. and global leadership teams to inform franchise strategy, lifecycle opportunities, and long-term growth priorities
• Build and lead a high-performing marketing organization that fosters accountability, innovation, collaboration, talent development, and strategic thinking
• Ensure all commercial strategies and operational plans comply with applicable regulatory, legal, and ethical standards while promoting a highly compliant operating environment

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