Global Feasibility Senior Manager

Amgen • Thousand Oaks, CA

6d • $138,671 - $187,613

About The Position

Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients At Amgen, if you feel like you’re 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 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.

Requirements

• Doctorate degree and 2 years of relevant experience OR Master’s degree and 4 years of relevant experience OR Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of relevant experience

Responsibilities

• Own the development and execution of the feasibility strategy in partnership with clinical program team, study delivery team, GSSO, and cross-functional data teams to deliver a fully-optimized operational action plan.
• Lead the successful delivery of the feasibility process (strategy plans, country selection, site identification, timelines, synthesis of feasibility insights) to expedite cycle times for all clinical programs assigned.
• Manage L5 GFL Direct Reports, overseeing performance reviews, career progression, training, and engagement.
• Lead activities pertaining to country and site identification, feasibility and country selection within a clinical study.
• Partner with study team members, data analytics teams, and country teams to design and conduct global feasibility activities on time with high quality delivery.
• Ensure consistency of feasibility execution across the portfolio/pipeline including bridging gaps between local/central data.
• Ensure clear timelines and expectations are aligned and communicated between data providers and study teams to expedite data insight deliverables and confirm the analysis timeline is coordinated with study team decision milestones. This includes initial enrollment timelines, footprint optimization, developing key assumptions, and establishing patient recruitment strategy potential, etc.
• Lead the collection of local internal and external data (e.g. local treatment standard of care, available treatment options approved/reimbursed, local incidence/prevalence of disease, access to targeted patient population, operational barriers) to define an optimal geographic country footprint and proposed sites for participation in a clinical study.
• In partnership with internal stakeholders- synthesize, interpret and integrate data and information to provide clear feasibility recommendations to further embed data-driven decision making, analyze trends, identify root causes, and provide actionable recommendations across study teams and programs to accelerate study execution.
• Facilitate the study baseline enrollment commitment & change process (country and study levels).
• Initiate and lead global feasibility continuous improvement efforts and initiatives.
• Support development of systems, processes and work practices that drive rapid, accurate and robust assessments of program and protocol feasibility (country, site) as well as the timing of key recruitment milestones.

Benefits

• A 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
• Flexible work models where possible.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree