Senior Manager, Strategic Planning & Operations, Inflammation Research

Amgen • South San Francisco, CA

15d • $149,977 - $202,909

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.

Senior Manager, Strategic Planning & Operations, Inflammation Research

What you will do
Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will serve as a strategic partner to the VP Research and the Inflammation Leadership Team, translating TA strategy into measurable priorities, operating plans, and outcomes. You will facilitate strategic planning, organizational effectiveness, technology and AI-enabled initiatives, business operations, and executive communications across the Inflammation Therapeutic Area.
This role combines scientific insight, strategic thinking, operational leadership, and organizational influence to accelerate delivery of transformative medicines to patients.

Requirements

• Doctorate degree and 2 years of biotech/pharma-related management, project management, or strategic operations experience
• Master’s degree and 4 years of biotech/pharma-related management, project management, or strategic operations experience
• Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of biotech/pharma-related management, project management, or strategic operations experience
• Associate’s degree and 10 years of biotech/pharma-related management, project management, or strategic operations experience
• High school diploma / GED and 12 years of biotech/pharma-related management, project management, or strategic operations experience

Nice To Haves

• Demonstrated experience in strategic planning, portfolio management, governance, operations, budgeting, resource planning, and performance management in an R&D organization.
• Scientific credibility and ability to synthesize complex scientific, operational, and business information into actionable recommendations for senior leaders.
• Strong executive presence and ability to serve as a trusted thought partner to senior leaders, scientific teams, and business partner functions.
• Experience leading and influencing cross-functional teams in a global, matrixed, rapidly changing environment with a high tolerance for ambiguity.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including preparation of executive presentations, business reviews, governance materials, and strategic communications.
• Experience with change management, organizational effectiveness, talent planning, leadership team operating cadence, and culture-building initiatives.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with experience developing KPI dashboards, risk assessments, decision frameworks, and portfolio/resource analyses.
• Passion for innovation, technology, AI-enabled discovery, operational excellence, and new ways of working that improve scientific quality and speed.
• High proficiency with Microsoft Office, SharePoint, Smartsheet, collaboration tools, data visualization tools, and AI-enabled productivity or knowledge-synthesis tools.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and operational leadership: Partner directly with the VP Research and Inflammation Leadership Team to define, execute, and track TA strategy, annual goals, long-range priorities, and operating mechanisms. Translate strategic priorities into measurable goals, action plans, milestones, KPIs, and accountability frameworks that improve decision-making and execution across the TA. Serve as a trusted advisor and thought partner on portfolio, organizational, capability, and investment decisions. Turn complex or unstructured business, scientific, and operational issues into clear action plans, cross-functional initiatives, and decision-ready deliverables.
• Operationalize portfolio governance and planning: Enable effective portfolio governance by coordinating the processes, analytics, operating mechanisms, and follow-through required to support leadership decisions. Develop portfolio dashboards, KPI metrics, risk assessments, and reporting tools that provide timely visibility into portfolio health, execution, and organizational performance. Work with TA leadership to coordinate governance activities and decision forums, ensuring effective preparation, communication, execution, and action tracking. Partner with scientific and portfolio leaders to surface risks, opportunities, tradeoffs, and resource requirements while supporting informed and timely decision-making. Promote accountability for implementation of governance decisions and strategic priorities across the organization.
• Advance technology, AI, innovation, and capability development: Coordinate TA-level technology, AI, computational, and innovation initiatives that strengthen research strategy, portfolio execution, and scientific decision-making. Partner with scientific leaders to identify capability gaps, evaluate innovation opportunities, and encourage adoption of emerging technologies and best practices. Leverage AI-enabled tools and operational systems to improve portfolio management, project reviews, knowledge synthesis, decision support, and operating efficiency. Support external collaborations by helping track scientific progress, milestones, budgets, risks, and decision points in partnership with scientific and business stakeholders.
• Enhancing organizational effectiveness and culture: Drive leadership team effectiveness, operating cadence, and cross-functional alignment across the Inflammation TA. Lead high-priority special projects involving organizational design, talent strategy, capability building, change management, and operational improvement. Contribute to a strong scientific culture by supporting planning offsites, seminar series, topical symposia, training, staff profiles, mentoring connections, and other engagement mechanisms. Establish practical processes, tools, and ways of working that improve transparency, accountability, learning, and execution across the TA.
• Lead business operations and executive communications: Coordinate budgeting, resource planning, headcount management, and scenario analyses in partnership with Finance, HR, Research Operations, and TA leadership. Coordinate talent management processes, including hiring, promotions, workforce planning, and related personnel actions. Develop executive-level presentations, business reviews, strategic communications, governance materials, portfolio reviews, and leadership updates. Communicate strategic priorities, decisions, progress, risks, and actions clearly across the organization and with senior stakeholders.

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