Senior Director, GDO Operational Business Management

Amgen • Thousand Oaks, CA

3d

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.

Requirements

• Doctorate degree and 5 years of Business Operations, Resource Planning, or Financial Management in Pharmaceutical R&D or Clinical Operations experience OR Master’s degree and 8 years of Business Operations, Resource Planning, or Financial Management in Pharmaceutical R&D or Clinical Operations experience OR Bachelor’s degree and 10 years of Business Operations, Resource Planning, or Financial Management in Pharmaceutical R&D or Clinical Operations experience

Nice To Haves

• 10+ years of experience in financial and/or resource management within clinical operations, including oversight of global teams and large-scale clinical trials.
• Knowledge of emerging trends in advance that will enable significant agility and efficiency in business elements of clinical operations – quality, time and cost.
• Global cross-functional leadership across clinical domains and geographies.
• Expertise in managing timelines, vendor relations and project milestones.
• Expertise in assessing clinical portfolio resource demand and managing changes/variance against resource/supply plans
• Portfolio-level budget/resource oversight and optimization.
• Ability to analyze data for cost-saving opportunities and efficiency improvements.
• Strategic thinking with the ability to advance the business through application of technology
• Capability-building and functional training strategy.
• Strong interpersonal skills to work with vendors, partner with IT and senior leadership.
• Establishment of external partnerships and thought leadership within the clinical operations and business domains.

Responsibilities

• Align operational plans with financial targets, prioritize GDO investments, and build business cases for technology and modernization initiatives.
• Link GDO resources to budget, identify efficiencies, and drive awareness, allocation, and management of non-resource spend.
• Translate resourcing data into actionable insights for senior leadership and business partners.
• Partner with R&D Finance to ensure alignment on GDO budget understanding, targets, and resource planning.
• Identify and quantify resource needs (staffing, technology, clinical trial costs) across the Amgen portfolio.
• Manage staffing capacity across Amgen staff, FSPs, and contingent workers to support portfolio needs.
• Deliver analyses and reports on resource demand/supply, highlighting variances and financial risks.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a global team while collaborating with cross-functional and external stakeholders.
• Foster accountability, innovation, and collaboration; build talent pipelines and develop critical skills.
• Serve as GDO’s senior business owner, leading analyses to inform executive trade-off decisions on budget, cost, technology, and efficiency.
• Partner with GDO leadership to build future resource capability plans.
• Collaborate with GDO functions to meet evolving business needs, ensuring speed, quality, productivity, and efficiency.
• Champion budget awareness and cost drivers; present analyses, scenarios, and recommendations to executive leadership.
• Partner with Finance and R&D Strategy & Operations to develop and refine resource algorithms and adapt them in real time.
• Drive continuous improvement and innovation in resource utilization, scenario modeling, and clinical trial technologies.

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