Amgen Inc

Director, Scientific and Operations Intelligence, Obesity

Amgen Inc$196K — $266K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
Less than 5 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Doctorate degree with 4 years of relevant experience, or Master's degree with 7 years, or Bachelor's degree with 9 years.
  • Advanced degree in life sciences, medicine, or related field preferred.
  • Ten years of experience in biopharma, biotechnology, or healthcare with expertise in relevant domains.
  • Proven track record of translating complex evidence into actionable recommendations.
  • Strong understanding of drug discovery, clinical trials, and biopharmaceutical supply operations.
  • Experience in obesity or cardiometabolic disease preferred.
  • Exceptional executive communication and influencing skills.

Responsibilities

  • Build relationships with senior leaders to align on priorities and inform the Insights & Analytics agenda.
  • Serve as a flexible problem solver across various scientific and operational needs.
  • Lead priority projects end to end, from defining decisions to tracking impact.
  • Integrate scientific and operational information into actionable insights.
  • Develop reusable decision-making tools and analytical capabilities with a focus on advanced analytics.
  • Establish a long-term team and operating model for sustainable impact.
  • Foster a high-performing culture emphasizing analytical rigor and scientific integrity.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive employee benefits package including health, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Retirement and savings plan with generous contributions.
  • Discretionary annual bonus program based on performance.
  • Stock-based long-term incentives offered.
  • Award-winning time-off plans to support work/life balance.
  • Flexible work models available where applicable.
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Sales & Marketing Operations
Job Description

Director, Scientific and Operations Intelligence, Obesity

This role owns the non-commercial Obesity Insights & Analytics agenda across scientific domains, including R&D, Medical, and Clinical Development, and operations domains, including Clinical Operations, Supply, and related Operations functions. As the trusted Insights & Analytics partner to senior leaders across these functions, the Director connects priorities, surfaces cross-functional dependencies, frames the questions with the greatest potential to improve decisions and outcomes, and mobilizes the right data and expertise to deliver clear recommendations for Obesity and Related Conditions leadership.

During the initial capability build, the Director will operate as an agile enterprise problem solver, flexing across the highest-priority functional and cross-functional needs. In parallel, the Director will build the long-term team, operating model, and recurring portfolio required to create sustained value.

The Director is accountable for prioritization, problem framing, analytical strategy and delivery, executive synthesis, and decision-impact measurement, partnering with the India-based Scientific and Operations Intelligence capability and other experts to scale delivery. Commercial Insights & Analytics and Competitive Intelligence are outside the remit. Success is measured by decisions improved, risks anticipated, and value created.

Key Responsibilities

  • Build and sustain trusted relationships with senior leaders across R&D, Medical, Clinical Development, Clinical Operations, Supply, and related Operations functions to understand evolving priorities, connect interdependencies, and shape the Insights & Analytics agenda. Anchor each priority to a clear question, decision date, decision owner, and value at stake, and ensure insights translate into decisions and action.
  • Serve as an agile problem-solving leader across the scientific and operations remit, rapidly deploying to the most consequential functional and cross-functional priorities rather than operating through fixed workstreams.
  • Lead priority work end to end: define the decision and hypotheses; determine the analytical approach; mobilize the right data, capabilities, and experts; synthesize findings; recommend a course of action; and track impact.
  • Integrate scientific and operational information into decision-ready views of options, dependencies, uncertainties, and trade-offs, including research prioritization, development choices, evidence generation, trial execution, supply capacity, and readiness.
  • Build reusable decision products and analytical capabilities, including scenario models, evidence maps, risk dashboards, decision trees, and leading indicators. Apply advanced analytics and AI where they materially improve quality, speed, or scale.
  • Build the long-term team and operating model, including intake and prioritization, stakeholder engagement, work-product standards, governance, and an effective delivery model across the India-based Scientific and Operations Intelligence capability, functional analytics teams, and subject-matter experts.
  • Create a high-performing culture of intellectual honesty, constructive challenge, analytical rigor, and action, with strong standards for scientific integrity, compliance, privacy, data governance, and reproducibility.


What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The dynamic professional we seek is someone with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications

  • Doctorate degree and 4 years of relevant experience OR
  • Master's degree and 7 years of relevant experience OR
  • Bachelor's degree and 9 years of relevant experience


Preferred Qualifications

  • Advanced degree in life sciences, medicine, pharmacy, public health, epidemiology, data science, engineering, operations research, business, or a related field.
  • Ten or more years of experience in biopharma, biotechnology, healthcare, or life sciences consulting, with deep expertise in at least one relevant scientific or operations domain, meaningful experience in another, and demonstrated ability to integrate across functions.
  • Demonstrated success framing ambiguous, high-stakes questions and translating complex evidence into recommendations that changed or accelerated a senior leadership decision.
  • Proven ability to deliver near-term impact while building a new capability, operating model, or team across a complex global organization.
  • Strong understanding of drug discovery and development, medical evidence, clinical trial design and execution, and biopharmaceutical supply operations, with fluency in relevant data, scenario modeling, visualization, and responsible applications of AI.
  • Experience in obesity, cardiometabolic disease, or another complex and rapidly evolving therapeutic area is strongly preferred.
  • Exceptional executive communication, judgment, and ability to influence, challenge constructively, and create alignment in a global matrix.


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.


Apply now and make a lasting impact with the Amgen team.

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Application deadline

Amgen does not have an application deadline for this position; we will continue accepting applications until we receive a sufficient number or select a candidate for the position.

Sponsorship

Sponsorship for this role is not guaranteed.

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Salary Range
196,610.10USD -266,001.90 USD

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24,200 employees
Market Cap
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Net Income
$7.2 billion
Founded
1980
5 Year Trend
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