Medical Director, Congresses & Partnerships Lead

Amgen • Thousand Oaks, CA

6d • 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. 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. In this vital role you will collaborate with multiple cross-functional teams to shape global strategic direction for multi-channel medical and scientific external engagement throughout the lifecycle of therapeutic area (TA) products. This role is also responsible for driving engagement excellence with key external organizations to optimize Amgen’s strategic objectives.

Requirements

• Doctorate degree and 4 years of external medical engagement experience OR Master’s degree and 7 years of external medical engagement experience OR Bachelor's Degree and 9 years of external medical engagement experience
• Demonstrated ability as an expert in a complex matrix environment
• Pharmaceutical product development, product lifecycle and commercialization process knowledge with understanding of other functions, including but not limited to, Clinical Operations, Commercial, Safety, Regulatory, Value & Access, and Medical Affairs
• Product/therapeutic area knowledge
• Medical or scientific education or experience from similar positions
• Strong demonstration of relevant professional experience cross-functionally managing congresses
• Ability to strategically develop and implement programs that impact Amgen’s long-term objectives
• Experience working in teams with other medical professionals
• Skilled at engagement and scientific exchange with external medical community
• Familiarity with concepts of clinical research, clinical trial design and operational details
• Knowledge of Good Clinical Practices (GCP), region regulations and guidelines, and applicable international regulatory requirements
• Familiarity of local pharmaceutical industry and legal/health system environment
• Proven ability to work in teams, cross-functionally and independently.
• Skilled at effectively presenting ideas and documenting complex medical/clinical concepts in both written and oral communication
• History of solving problems while exhibiting superior judgment and a balanced, realistic understanding of issues
• AI proficiency

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree (e.g. PhD, MD, PharmD, BS, BSN, MBA)

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with multiple cross-functional teams to shape global strategic direction for multi-channel medical and scientific external engagement throughout the lifecycle of therapeutic area (TA) products.
• Drive engagement excellence with key external organizations to optimize Amgen’s strategic objectives.
• Support the design and delivery of a comprehensive global external medical and scientific engagement strategy across external stakeholders (congresses, cooperative groups, and societies).
• Develop the annual global oncology and hematology congress strategy, ensuring cross-functional alignment, prioritization, and budget stewardship across regions (ELMAC, JAPAC, US) and oversee execution to ensure alignment with medical objectives, consistent communication, and streamlined reporting.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, regional leads, TA Heads and R&D leadership, as well as Commercial and Access partners to ensure strategic alignment with external groups to achieve successful execution of medical initiatives and deliverables.
• Define and support external engagement needs and opportunities within the global medical engagement strategic plan based on area of responsibility; execute the final global medical engagement strategic plan via interactions with both internal and external stakeholders in partnership with medical leads.
• Partner with Field Medical to develop a comprehensive, cross-functional view of key Opinion Leader (OL) congress interactions to enhance strategic prioritization and support delivery of high-quality, strategic insights.
• Provide strategic alignment with Commercial and Access teams on Value Based Partnerships at a platform/TA level.
• Ensure capture, analysis, and distribution of scientific insights; forecasting scientific trends from opinion leader networks, cooperative groups, and/or professional societies; distributing internally to broaden awareness.
• Integrate AI-driven solutions and champion AI adoption across medical engagement, congress planning, stakeholder management, and operational workflows to enhance efficiency, insights, and strategic impact.
• Manage consistent communication with internal and external stakeholders to ensure alignment of strategic objectives to ensure successful outcomes.
• Maintain an active role within TA medical team meetings to ensure awareness of potential opportunities for external engagement.

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, including remote and hybrid work arrangements, where possible

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees