Global Insights Senior Manager - Oncology

Amgen • Oak Park, IL

9d • $162,459 - $219,797

About The Position

The Global Insights Senior Manager is a strategic thought partner to brand and cross-functional teams, independently owning integrated insight agendas for pipeline assets, brands, disease areas, and portfolio initiatives. The role supports Amgen’s global oncology portfolio, flexing across priorities as business needs evolve and partnering with global marketing, value and access, competitive intelligence, forecasting, analytics, and other teams.

The position generates business-relevant insights to shape global commercialization planning, brand and disease-area strategy, lifecycle management, and critical decisions. It combines primary market research, secondary analytics, competitive intelligence, market evidence, and internal knowledge into clear narratives and recommendations. The role also supports business cases, workshops, senior leadership presentations, and critical go/no-go decisions.

The Senior Manager builds expertise in assigned oncology priorities and the relevant markets, customers, disease areas, and business context. The role manages research agencies and project resources, aligns cross-functional teams on objectives and actions, communicates recommendations to audiences including senior leaders, and informally coaches colleagues. It also contributes to insight methods, marketing excellence, and AI-enabled insights capabilities while maintaining rigorous, accurate, timely, budget-conscious, and SOP-compliant work.

Requirements

• Doctorate degree and 2 years of market research and/or analytics experience; or master’s degree and 4 years; or bachelor’s degree and 6 years; or associate’s degree and 10 years; or high school diploma/GED and 12 years.
• Exceptional business acumen, strategic and critical thinking skills, and ability to influence key decisions.
• Ability to rapidly build expertise and trusted cross-functional relationships, navigate ambiguity, and flex across priorities, stakeholders, and workstreams.
• Ability to independently own an integrated insight agenda and translate human, market, and analytical insights into brand narratives, customer experiences, and strategic recommendations.
• Experience integrating secondary analytics, market data, and primary research into cohesive insight narratives for strategic decision-making.
• Strong understanding of marketing and marketing strategy, including market research design, Jobs-to-Be-Done methodologies, moments that matter, and brand-building.
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced, evolving environment and proactively reprioritize insight plans as evidence, launch needs, and business decisions evolve.
• Analytical rigor and attention to detail, including ability to extract, analyze, treat, and consolidate data accurately and translate findings into actionable recommendations.
• Excellent oral, written, and presentation skills, including the ability to explain complex concepts clearly to varied audiences and senior management.
• Coaching and resource leadership skills, including developing others and leading agency or matrixed project teams.
• Strong knowledge of drug development, commercialization, and the healthcare industry, including patients, HCPs, and payers.
• Experience leading primary research and managing multiple stakeholders, work plans, budgets, and projects in parallel.

Nice To Haves

• Oncology experience.
• Global launch preparation and/or late-stage pipeline commercialization experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead and contribute to integrated insight agendas across priority brands, pipeline assets, disease areas, and cross-portfolio initiatives; identify high-value business questions and translate them into decision-focused plans.
• Synthesize market research, competitive intelligence, secondary data, advisory boards, and internal knowledge into strategic insights that address business needs.
• Lead ad hoc strategic secondary analytics and integrate secondary data, analytics, and market evidence with primary research and competitive intelligence into evidence-based narratives and recommendations.
• Develop business cases and facilitate workshops supporting clinical development plans, lifecycle management, strategic decisions, go/no-go decisions, and senior leadership presentations.
• Plan, design, and lead primary market research with research agencies for assets across product lifecycle phases.
• Build expertise in assigned oncology priorities, markets, customers, disease areas, and business context, connecting human insights to brand strategy and customer experience.
• Partner with commercial leadership and cross-functional teams to define and prioritize objectives, evidence needs, budgets, and work plans; align teams on implications and recommended actions; and flex resources as priorities evolve.
• Communicate insights and recommendations to influence brand decisions, including with senior leaders, and provide constructive challenge when needed.
• Connect insights and patterns across brands, disease areas, and markets to surface transferable learnings and emerging opportunities.
• Identify, evaluate, and manage vendors; lead agency teams and allocate project resources to deliver high-value work.
• Informally coach Managers and project teams in problem framing, research design, synthesis, and executive communication; promote knowledge exchange and contribute to insight methods, marketing excellence, and AI-enabled insights capabilities.
• Maintain rigor and attention to detail, ensuring evidence and recommendations are accurate and consistent, and projects comply with Amgen SOPs and service expectations for quality, timeliness, and budget.

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.
• Discretionary annual bonus program, or a sales-based incentive plan for field sales representatives.
• Stock-based long-term incentives.
• Award-winning time-off plans.
• Flexible work models where possible.
• Health and welfare plans for staff and eligible dependents, financial plans with opportunities to save for retirement or other goals, work/life balance, and career development opportunities, subject to eligibility.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed