Global Insights, Senior Manager Rare Disease

Amgen • Chicago, IL

2d • $155,747 - $210,717

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 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 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. Global Insights, Sr. Mgr. What you will do Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will be a strategic thought partner to brand and cross‑functional teams, responsible for generating rigorous, business‑relevant insights that inform brand strategy, execution, and decision‑making. Amgen is seeking a Senior Manager, Global Commercial Insights to lead insights generation for the rare disease pipeline to support global commercialization planning. This role partners closely with global marketing, global value and access, competitive intelligence, forecasting, and other cross-functional teams to provide insights that inform global go-to-market strategy, early commercial planning, therapeutic area strategy, and advancement of the pipeline.

Requirements

• Doctorate degree and 2 years of market research, analytics, competitive intelligence, sales and/or marketing operations experience OR Master’s degree and 6 years of market research, analytics, competitive intelligence, sales and/or marketing operations experience OR Bachelor’s degree and 8 years of market research, analytics, competitive intelligence, sales and/or marketing operations experience OR Associate’s degree and 10 years of market research, analytics, competitive intelligence, sales and/or marketing operations experience OR High school diploma / GED and 12 years of market research, analytics, competitive intelligence, sales and/or marketing operations experience
• In addition to meeting at least one of the above requirements, you must have a minimum of 2 years experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs, or directing the allocation or resources. Your managerial experience may run concurrently with the required technical experience referenced above

Nice To Haves

• Demonstrated exceptional business acumen, strategic / critical thinking skills, and ability to influence key decisions
• Proven ability to build and evolve brands through strategic insight generation, including expertise in market research design, Jobs-to-Be-Done methodologies, identification of moments that matter, and translating deep human insights into compelling brand narratives and customer experiences
• Strong understanding of marketing and marketing strategy
• Ability to independently extract, analyze, treat, and consolidate data from sources in formats with rigor and high level of accuracy and translate into actionable recommendations
• Excellent oral, written and presentation skills with ability to explain complex concepts clearly to a variety of audiences, including senior management
• Ability to work collaboratively and adaptively in team-based, cross-functional environments
• Ability to balance a multitude of stakeholders and projects in parallel
• Strong knowledge of drug development, commercialization and the broader healthcare industry (patients, HCPs, payers)
• Experience leading primary research

Responsibilities

• Synthesize information from a variety of sources (e.g., market research, competitive intelligence, secondary data, advisory boards) to develop strategic insights that address business needs
• Integrate insights and knowledge to develop business cases and facilitate workshops to support clinical development plans, lifecycle management and other strategic decisions - supporting critical go/no-go decisions and senior leadership presentations
• Plan, design, and lead primary market research with a research agency for assets across various phases of the product lifecycle to enable strategic decision making
• Lead ad hoc strategic secondary analytics to inform strategic decisions
• Be the subject matter expert on HCP, patient, and payer insights for the brand
• Clearly communicate insights and recommendations to variety of audiences, including senior leadership (e.g., Therapeutic Area Heads, Disease Area Strategy Leads), and become a 'devil's advocate' when needed
• Partner with commercial leadership and cross-functional partners to define and prioritize objectives, budget and work plans to meet evolving business needs
• Identify, evaluate, and manage relationships with best-in-class vendors and look for opportunities to innovate and advance capabilities
• Support advancement of AI capabilities for insights generation
• Support Amgen’s advancement in marketing excellence through aligned insights generation and deep brand-building knowledge
• Ensure that both routine and ad-hoc projects are in compliance with all Amgen SOPs and meet service-level expectations for quality, timeliness, and budget

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