Global Insights Senior Manager - Xaluritamig

Amgen • Thousand Oaks, CA

2d • $162,459 - $219,797 • Hybrid

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. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline and portfolio of medicines to treat heart disease, obesity and obesity-related conditions, rare diseases, inflammatory conditions and cancer. 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 Senior Manager - Xaluritamig

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, independently owning the integrated insight agenda for a pipeline asset, brand, or disease area. You will generate business-relevant insights that shape global commercialization planning, brand strategy, lifecycle management, and critical decision making.
Amgen is seeking a Senior Manager, Global Insights to lead insights generation for Xaluritamig. This role partners closely with global marketing, global value and access, competitive intelligence, forecasting, analytics, and other cross-functional teams to define the highest-value business questions, prioritize evidence investments, and deliver a comprehensive strategic point of view that informs global go-to-market strategy, early commercial planning, relevant therapeutic area decisions, and asset lifecycle strategy.

Requirements

• Doctorate degree and 2 years of market research and/or analytics experience
• Master’s degree and 4 years of market research and/or analytics experience
• Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of market research and/or analytics experience
• Associate’s degree and 10 years of market research and/or analytics experience
• High school diploma / GED and 12 years of market research and/or analytics experience

Nice To Haves

• Demonstrated exceptional business acumen, strategic and critical thinking skills, and ability to influence key decisions.
• Proven ability to independently own an integrated insight agenda and translate deep human, market, and analytical insights into compelling brand narratives, customer experiences, and strategic recommendations.
• Experience integrating secondary analytics, market data, and primary research into a cohesive insight narrative that enables strategic decision making.
• Strong understanding of marketing and marketing strategy, including expertise in market research design, Jobs-to-Be-Done methodologies, identification of moments that matter, and brand-building.
• Demonstrated analytical rigor and attention to detail, with the ability to independently extract, analyze, treat, and consolidate data from sources with rigor and high accuracy and translate findings into actionable recommendations.
• Excellent oral, written, and presentation skills with ability to explain complex concepts clearly to a variety of audiences, including senior management.
• Demonstrated coaching and resource leadership, including the ability to develop others and lead agency or matrixed project teams.
• Strong knowledge of drug development, commercialization, and the broader healthcare industry, including patients, HCPs, and payers.
• Experience leading primary research and managing multiple stakeholders, work plans, budgets, and projects in parallel.

Responsibilities

• Independently own the integrated insight agenda for a complex global brand, pipeline asset, or disease area; define the highest-value business questions and translate them into prioritized, decision-focused work plans.
• Synthesize information from a variety of sources, including market research, competitive intelligence, secondary data, advisory boards, and internal knowledge, to develop strategic insights that address business needs.
• Lead ad hoc strategic secondary analytics and ensure secondary data, analytics, and market evidence are incorporated with primary research and competitive intelligence into evidence-based insight narratives and strategic recommendations.
• Integrate insights and knowledge to develop business cases and facilitate workshops that support clinical development plans, lifecycle management, and other strategic decisions, including critical go/no-go decisions and senior leadership presentations.
• Plan, design, and lead primary market research with research agencies for assets across various phases of the product lifecycle to enable strategic decision making.
• Serve as the insights subject matter expert for the assigned brand, asset, or disease area, maintaining a deep understanding of HCP, patient, and payer insights for the assigned brand, asset, or disease area, connecting human insights to brand strategy and customer experience.
• Partner with commercial leadership and cross-functional partners to define and prioritize objectives, budgets, and work plans; lead cross-functional alignment on implications and recommended actions; exercise independent judgement to resolve evidence gaps and escalate recommended trade-offs.
• Clearly communicate insights and recommendations to a variety of audiences to influence brand decision-making, including senior leadership such as Therapeutic Area Heads and Disease Area Strategy Leads, and serve as a constructive devil’s advocate when needed.
• Identify, evaluate, and manage relationships with best-in-class vendors; lead agency teams and direct allocation of project resources to deliver the highest-value work.
• Informally coach Managers and project teams in problem framing, research design, synthesis, and executive communication; promote and contribute to a culture of actively exchanging learnings and best practices across Global Insights; and contribute to the development of insight methods, marketing excellence, and AI-enabled insights capabilities.
• Maintain a high standard of rigor and attention to detail across insight generation and communication, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and quality of evidence and recommendations; ensure that 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