Research Program and Collaboration Management, Manager

Amgen • Thousand Oaks, CA

14h • Remote

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. Research Program and Collaboration Management, Manager What you will do Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. The Research Program and Collaboration Management (RPCM) Team is seeking an enthusiastic and performance-driven Project and Collaboration Manager. In this vital role you will support multiple Research Project Teams in partnership with the relevant Program Team Leads (PTLs), helping to establish and maintain a high-performing operating process that connects team execution tactics with program strategy. You will work across a matrix environment to help drive core project management fundamentals, including cross-functional meeting management, agendas, minutes, decisions/actions, integrated project plans, timelines, and awareness of risks, issues, and dependencies. Your work will help enable high-quality team discussions, governance preparedness, and execution. This is a highly visible position that will apply fit-for-purpose project management to advance pipeline projects through Amgen's governance process and toward clinical candidate nomination. Additionally, in instances when programs are partnered with Amgen's external alliance partners, you may also support collaboration management activities and serve as a point of contact for alliance execution and agreement-related questions, helping to enable effective joint governance and delivery of partnership obligations. This is an individual contributor role with no direct reports.

Requirements

• Doctorate degree OR Master’s degree and 2 years of directly related experience OR Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of directly related experience OR Associate’s degree and 8 years of directly related experience OR High school diploma / GED and 10 years of directly related experience
• Advanced degree and 2+ years of research experience in either Oncology, Inflammation, Cardiovascular, Metabolic, or Rare Disease space.
• 2+ years of demonstrated fit-for-purpose project management experience supporting research programs in the biopharmaceutical industry
• Strong scientific acumen and experience advancing biotechnology/pharmaceutical research programs through a research stage-gate process
• Strong competencies in planning, project management, and organization with the ability to lead multiple activities in parallel while maintaining a focus on quality
• Exceptional interpersonal skills to effectively work in a team or matrix environment, to collaborate and coordinate with internal and external department staff at various levels, and to influence others effectively; able to build and collaborate with a cross-functional network.
• Creative and critical problem-solving skills with high comfort in ambiguous situations.
• Self-directed quick learner who is proactive and takes initiative, with the ability to adapt to a dynamic environment and a demonstrated ability to grasp general knowledge of multiple fields.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to synthesize information, identify issues, and communicate risks, dependencies, and decisions clearly
• Experience working with internal and/or external stakeholders in a matrixed environment
• Experience supporting partnerships, collaborations, or alliances with pharmaceutical and/or biotechnology organizations
• Experience interpreting and applying contractual terms to support execution of a business relationship

Responsibilities

• Partners with Project Team Leads (PTL) to charter teams, develop core documents, establish timelines and budgets, and align project tactics with project strategy.
• Partners with PTLs to plan for and successfully navigate Amgen governance requirements.
• Manages project timelines and monitors team adherence to project plans; is accountable for ensuring project plans and timelines are entered and updated in the enterprise system
• Facilitates effective project meetings and manages change in a matrix environment.
• Liaises with Senior PTLs to manage each therapeutic area portfolio.
• Identifies resource gaps and works with the Project Team to resolve, taking appropriate action when necessary.
• Drives optimal approaches across teams and develops and implements fit-for-purpose tools to efficiently support Project Teams.

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: Manager