Job Description
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Competitive Intelligence Senior Manager, Global Biosimilars
This role serves as the competitive intelligence lead for multiple pipeline assets within Amgen's Biosimilars Business Unit. Responsibilities include leading intelligence gathering and AI-enabled analytics, managing external vendors and internal intelligence networks, presenting recommendations to senior stakeholders, and ensuring all activities are conducted in accordance with Amgen's legal and ethical competitive intelligence standards.
Work Location: Flex Commuter to Thousand Oaks, CA; minimum one on-site day per month highly encouraged.
Key Responsibilities
Lead Competitive Intelligence strategy for Biosimilars strategic pipeline assets, serving as the primary thought partner to the Biosimilars Business Unit. Own asset/brand-, therapeutic-area-, and company-level CI, developing deep competitor expertise-including strategic tracking of companies such as Sandoz and Celltrion-and translating insights into actionable recommendations for key business decisions.
Lead the full CI cycle-define Key Intelligence Topics/Questions with Marketing and other business colleagues, execute hypothesis-driven primary & secondary research, and deliver clear, actionable insight packages for multiple internal stakeholders.
Leverage and expand AI-enabled technologies (including Codex, generative AI, NLP, predictive analytics, automation) to improve competitive intelligence workflows, accelerate signal detection and raise insight quality.
Integrate diverse data sources-KOL & investigator interviews, conference intelligence, clinical-trial/market databases (e.g., clinicaltrials.gov, TrialTrove, BioMedTracker, Evaluate, Cortellis, Factset, AlphaSense)-into cohesive competitive landscapes and scenario plans.
Direct and mentor a network of external vendors and internal partners to execute research, facilitate red-team/war-gaming simulations, and lead rapid-response congress debriefs (≈10% travel).
Present strategic recommendations to senior leadership and champion CI best practices, ensuring full compliance with Amgen's CI Legal & Ethical Guidelines while nurturing talent and contributing to enterprise AI/analytics forums.
Additional Qualifications/Responsibilities
What we expect of you
We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek is a collaborator with these qualifications.
Basic Qualifications
Doctorate degree and 2 years of competitive intelligence or similar experience
OR
Master's degree and 4 years of competitive intelligence or similar experience
OR
Bachelor's degree and 6 years of competitive intelligence or similar experience
OR
Associate's degree and 10 years of competitive intelligence or similar experience
OR
High school diploma / GED and 12 years of competitive intelligence or similar experience
Preferred Qualifications
Knowledge of basic principles of functions across the pharmaceutical value chain, including drug discovery & development, clinical trials, FDA / EMA regulation, and drug commercialization
Proven track record managing multiple, simultaneous projects and experience working with proprietary technical, regulatory and financial data sources (i.e. TrialTrove, Cortellis Intelligence, Evaluate Pharma, PubMed)
Experience supporting insight generation by coordinating with cross-functional commercial, medical & scientific teams to develop therapeutic area strategy
Ability to analyze ongoing clinical trials and global regulatory considerations to develop scenarios for competitor launch timing in US, EU, Japan, China and other key markets
Understand pharmaceutical forecasting models, and provide competitor-focused assumptions to estimate market share, in support of long-range planning scenarios, go/no-go decisions and opportunity assessment for business development activities
Advanced degree (PhD/MS/MBA) focused on life sciences or business
5 years hands-on experience in biosimilars or biologics competitive intelligence, strategy, or management consulting
Demonstrated expertise applying within competitive or market intelligence (e.g., LLM-based text mining, retrieval-augmented generation, dashboarding).
Excellent storytelling skills-able to distill complex scientific and commercial data for executive audiences.
Proven project leadership and vendor-management capabilities in fast-moving, matrixed environments.
High learning agility, intellectual curiosity, and collaborative mindset.
What you can expect of us
As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for your professional and personal growth and well-being. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we'll support your journey every step of the way.
The expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is posted. Actual salary will vary based on several factors including but not limited to, relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.
In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan, based on eligibility, comprising of health and welfare plans for staff and eligible dependents, financial plans with opportunities to save towards retirement or other goals, work/life balance, and career development opportunities that may include:
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. Refer to the Work Location Type in the job posting to see if this applies.
Salary Range
155,747.20USD -210,716.80 USD
