Global Meetings & Events Manager, Meeting Planning

Career Category

Corporate Services

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. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline and portfolio of medicines to treat heart disease, obesity and obesity-related conditions, rare diseases, inflammatory conditions and cancer. 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.

Global Meetings & Events Manager, Meeting Planning

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will lead assigned complex, high-visibility programs from intake through post-event closeout. Reporting to the Associate Director, Meeting Planning, on the Global Meetings Management team (GMM), the Manager is the primary planning partner for sponsors and accountable for program strategy, attendee experience, budget, compliance, and execution. The Manager directs the Senior Associate’s assigned operational workstreams, providing clear priorities, guidance, and review while keeping the Associate Director informed of material risks and resource needs. The role requires sound judgment and the ability to manage concurrent programs as priorities change.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of complex, high-visibility programs and executive events.
• Translate business objectives into actionable plans, timelines, agendas, and operational workstreams.
• Manage multiple programs simultaneously, including priorities, risks, contingencies, and stakeholder expectations.
• Partner with sponsors, senior leaders, and key stakeholders to define objectives and measure success.
• Provide strategic guidance on event design, attendee experience, compliance requirements, and budget management.
• Lead planning meetings, communicate progress, and proactively resolve issues and risks.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams to align logistics, technology, security, legal, and operational requirements.
• Oversee the end-to-end attendee experience, including registration, communications, travel, accommodations, and onsite support.
• Direct onsite event operations, ensuring seamless execution and issue resolution.
• Manage program budgets, forecasts, financial tracking, and reporting.
• Ensure compliance with company policies, legal requirements, and audit standards.
• Identify and mitigate operational, financial, safety, and reputational risks.
• Oversee supplier performance, contracts, invoicing, payment reconciliation, and service delivery.
• Lead registration strategy, event technology implementation, reporting, and data management in Cvent.
• Evaluate and leverage approved event technologies, AI tools, and automation to improve efficiency and attendee experience.
• Partner on venue sourcing, selection, and contract execution.
• Provide guidance and oversight to the Senior Associate, including workload management, coaching, and quality review.
• Drive continuous improvement through post-event analysis, stakeholder feedback, and best-practice implementation.

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The strategic professional we seek is a collaborative leader with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree

OR

Master’s degree and 2 years of corporate event management, ideally within life sciences or highly regulated industries experience.

OR

Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of corporate event management, ideally within life sciences or highly regulated industries experience.

OR

Associate’s degree and 8 years of corporate event management, ideally within life sciences or highly regulated industries experience.

OR

High school diploma / GED and 10 years of corporate event management, ideally within life sciences or highly regulated industries experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in life sciences or another regulated industry; familiarity with virtual and hybrid meeting platforms and attendee-facing event apps.
• Bachelor’s degree in hospitality, business, communications, event management, or a related field; equivalent experience considered.
• 5+ years of corporate or agency meeting or event planning experience delivering complex, high-visibility programs in a corporate environment.
• Experience managing budgets, forecasts, supplier scopes, invoice review, payment coordination, and post-event reconciliation.

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