Business Performance Manager, Human Genetics

Career Category

Research

Job Description

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. 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.

R-260119 Business Performance Manager, Human Genetics

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will be the performance and implementation partner for Human Genetics, translating its strategy into coordinated priorities, practical plans, and measurable progress across Amgen R&D. You will connect scientific ambition with the operating mechanisms, decisions, and cross-functional actions needed to put a strategy into practice.

• Partner with Human Genetics leadership and R&D functions to turn strategic priorities into an integrated roadmap with clear outcomes, owners, milestones, dependencies, and resource needs.

• Create and maintain a performance framework that connects strategy to a focused set of measures, milestones, and leading indicators; synthesize progress, risks, and insights into concise updates that support timely decisions.

• Coordinate implementation across discovery research, therapeutic area teams, data and technology, translational science, and enabling functions, aligning contributions and resolving handoffs and dependencies.

• Plan and facilitate leadership operating rhythms, strategy reviews, and cross-functional governance forums; frame decisions, document actions, and follow through to ensure commitments translate into delivery.

• Lead or coordinate priority implementation workstreams from problem definition through adoption, including workplans, risk and issue management, change impacts, communications, and capability building.

• Identify barriers, gaps, and opportunities through stakeholder input and business analysis; develop evidence-based recommendations and escalate decisions with clear options and implications.

• Build repeatable practices for planning, reporting, and continuous improvement so Human Genetics initiatives are transparent, adaptable, and connected to broader R&D priorities.

A successful candidate adapts and thrives in a constantly evolving, fast-moving environment. While day-to-day activities will vary, you can expect to serve as a trusted partner to scientific and business leaders, bring structure to complex work, and help teams move from agreement to sustained implementation

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The strategic and collaborative professional we seek is an analytical, action-oriented partner who can build trust with scientific leaders and turn complex priorities into clear, coordinated execution.

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree

OR

Master’s degree and 2 years of relevant experience

OR

Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of relevant experience

OR

Associate’s degree and 8 years of relevant experience

OR

High school diploma / GED and 10 years of relevant experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in biotechnology, pharmaceutical R&D, human genetics, genomics, or a related scientific environment, with an ability to work effectively across scientific and business disciplines.

• Experience translating strategy into implementation roadmaps, operating plans, measurable outcomes, and clear accountability across matrixed teams.

• Demonstrated ability to manage complex cross-functional projects or portfolios, including dependencies, risks, resources, milestones, and change adoption.

• Strength in performance management and business analysis, including defining meaningful measures, synthesizing qualitative and quantitative information, and communicating implications.

• Excellent facilitation, stakeholder engagement, and executive communication skills, including the ability to frame decisions and explain complex information clearly.

• Experience improving operating models, governance, processes, or ways of working; project management or change management training or certification is a plus.

What you can expect from 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.

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