Project Coordinator, Senior Manager, Obesity

Amgen • Thousand Oaks, CA

5d • 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. Project Coordinator, Senior Manager, Obesity What you will do Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. The Project Coordinator, Senior Manager, Obesity will be embedded in the Obesity Intelligence & Analytics team, helping the team stay focused, organized, and connected to the market research and analytics that inform strategy. This role will partner closely with the Obesity Intelligence & Analytics Executive Director to translate priorities across Amgen global offices into clear workplans, decision-ready deliverables, and timely cross-functional execution. This individual must bring a consulting mindset, commercial judgment, digital curiosity, and strong organizational agility as part of a global commercial insights and analytics team. They will connect primary market research, competitive intelligence, secondary analytics, internal knowledge, and approved AI-enabled ways of working to align stakeholders, strengthen team culture, and deliver high-quality insights for product strategy, brand building, and governance milestones. Flexible Commuter role to the Thousand Oaks, CA office. You will work on-site a minimum of 2-3 days a week

Requirements

• Doctorate degree and 2 years of project coordination/management, forecasting, analytics, market insights, finance, strategy, or commercial planning experience OR Master’s degree and 4 years of project coordination/management, forecasting, analytics, market insights, finance, strategy, or commercial planning experience OR Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of project coordination/management, forecasting, analytics, market insights, finance, strategy, or commercial planning experience OR Associate’s degree and 10 years of project coordination/management, forecasting, analytics, market insights, finance, strategy, or commercial planning experience OR High school diploma / GED and 12 years of project coordination/management, forecasting, analytics, market insights, finance, strategy, or commercial planning experience

Nice To Haves

• Experience in commercial insights, analytics, market research, or strategy roles within pharma, biotech, or related healthcare
• Ability to translate ambiguous business questions into structured workplans, research or analytics approaches, and decision-ready outputs
• Demonstrated success driving cross-functional alignment across matrixed or multi-office teams and keeping complex insight workstreams on track
• Ability to synthesize primary market research, secondary analytics, competitive intelligence, and internal knowledge into clear implications
• Comfort exploring approved AI-enabled tools, automation, and knowledge management approaches to improve team effectiveness with sound judgment and appropriate governance
• Experience supporting onboarding, training, ways of working, communication routines, or team culture-building activities
• High ownership, judgment, discretion, and follow-through; collaborative communicator able to anticipate needs, simplify complex information, and flex between strategic thinking and hands-on execution

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with the Obesity Intelligence & Analytics Executive Director as an embedded extension of the team, translating priorities into workstreams, decision points, timelines, owners, and follow-through
• Coordinate inputs and handoffs across Amgen offices located globally, market research, analytics, competitive intelligence, brand, medical, access, governance, and other partners to keep priority work connected and on track
• Help frame business questions, connect them to research and analytics approaches, and ensure deliverables are decision-ready and grounded in clear implications
• Maintain practical team operating rhythms, leadership and decision forums, timelines, onboarding/training resources, and knowledge management routines
• Champion responsible adoption and evolution of approved AI use, identifying practical use cases for insight synthesis, planning, communications, and workflow efficiency
• Identify dependencies, risks, and trade-offs; flex across insight synthesis, leadership communications, vendor coordination, team culture development, and ad hoc problem solving as needed

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