Global Marketing Director, Oncology

Amgen • Thousand Oaks, CA

1d • $195,881 - $265,015

About The Position

The Global Marketing Director, Oncology serves as a strategic thought partner to brand and cross-functional teams and independently owns the integrated insight agenda for a pipeline asset, brand, or disease area. The role generates business-relevant insights to inform global commercialization planning, brand strategy, lifecycle management, and critical decisions.

For peri-launch products, including IMDELLTRA® (tarlatamab), this role drives strategy and execution throughout the product lifecycle. Responsibilities include maximizing asset value in key indications, providing commercial guidance and vision, developing global launch strategies, identifying lifecycle management opportunities, enhancing the customer experience and competitive position, and optimizing marketing budgets. For IMDELLTRA®, which is being developed for extensive- and limited-stage small-cell lung cancer, the role provides commercial leadership to the development organization so the compound is developed with future markets in mind and in parallel with late-stage indications.

The Director works with oncology leaders to incorporate insights from marketed thoracic oncology products and other peri-launch assets into IMDELLTRA® commercial strategy. The role also partners with the integrated brand team and selected local-country brand working groups to incorporate local market insights and support Global-with-Local engagements, including launch readiness plans. The position reports to the Executive Director and Global Marketing Lead for IMDELLTRA®.

Requirements

• One of the following education and experience combinations: doctorate degree and 2 years of marketing and/or business experience aligned with a Marketing/Sales commercial organization; master's degree and 4 years; bachelor's degree and 6 years; associate's degree and 10 years; or high school diploma/GED and 12 years.
• Collaborative leadership capabilities.
• Strong experience in oncology, particularly solid-tumor immuno-oncology, and understanding of the science, market trends, future opportunities, and hurdles.
• Experience in global commercial positions and an understanding of broad global market dynamics, with cultural awareness and sensitivity to work effectively with colleagues around the world.
• Experience in diverse commercial roles across disease states, product lifecycle stages, customer groups, and competitive markets; experience supporting partnered assets or programs.
• Experience in a tactical, local-market marketing role implementing marketing strategies, and a solid understanding of global market access, pricing, and reimbursement issues.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams in a matrix environment and managing global projects involving multiple functions and shared accountabilities.
• A scientifically curious mind.

Nice To Haves

• MBA coupled with a life sciences educational background.
• 8 or more years of experience and a track record of success in progressively broader and more complex commercial roles at biopharmaceutical companies.
• Experience developing and implementing innovative global marketing and commercial strategies for pipeline products, launching therapeutic products, and repositioning products to maximize commercial value.
• Experience launching multiple products in diverse therapeutic areas and a strong foundation in strategic marketing.
• Strong experience with beyond-the-molecule value drivers, such as patient services or the CDx/IVD space.
• Experience living and working outside the United States.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the Global Marketing Lead to develop a commercial strategy grounded in customer, marketplace, competitor, and business-driver insights, optimizing the future value of IMDELLTRA® indications, including limited-stage and extensive-stage front-line indications.
• Lead key marketing deliverables requiring cross-functional stakeholder alignment and input, such as brand planning and commercial advisory board leadership.
• Ensure portal decisions are supported by robust commercial assessments, including portfolio fit and organizational impact.
• Deliver assigned brand marketing work on time and at the expected quality, in alignment with Amgen processes and requirements.
• Contribute to Global Product Strategy, competitive insights, patient-centric deliverables, Target Product Profiles, forecasts, and lifecycle management initiatives that enhance program value.
• Lead Global-with-Local forums to facilitate knowledge sharing across local markets, gather market input on global deliverables, and support launch readiness reviews.
• Integrate insights from other marketed thoracic oncology products, peri-launch assets, and selected local markets into the IMDELLTRA® commercial strategy.

Benefits

• Health and welfare plans for staff and eligible dependents.
• Retirement and savings plans with opportunities to save toward retirement or other goals.
• Comprehensive employee benefits package including 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, including remote and hybrid arrangements where possible.
• Career development opportunities.

What This Job Offers

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