Grad Intern – R&D Execution, Operations & Strategy (R&D EOS) (Summer 2027)

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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. 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.

Grad Intern – R&D Execution, Operations & Strategy (R&D EOS) (Summer 2027)

What You Will Do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. We have multiple openings for graduate level students to further their educational goals. This internship will be approximately 12 weeks and includes both project-based and experiential learning. The intern will be an integral member of the R&D Execution, Operations & Strategy (R&D EOS) organization, which is focused on driving innovation beyond the molecule and applying digital (and other) strategies to simplify processes. The 4 functional areas within R&D EOS are:

• Strategy: Powering-up industry-leading R&D through strategy, functional transformation, and performance excellence
• Portfolio & Program Management: Turning product strategy into execution to bring medicines to patients faster
• R&D Business Operations: Innovating excellence and navigating efficiency to manage R&D operational activities, including budget planning and contracting, suppliers, laboratories, workforce strategy and environmental, social & governance (ESG)
• R&D Knowledge & Learning: Transforming and advancing digitization and contemporized learning as well as cultivating talent & culture for a people-centric and inclusive workforce

As a member of Amgen's R&D EOS organization, your work will be highly collaborative across multiple functions and levels within Amgen, including, Research & Development, Chief Medical Office, Chief Technology Office, Quality & Compliance, and others. You will be uniquely responsible for one or more key projects that will advance R&D EOS’ mission, including the following:

• Supporting a project within one of our functional areas
• Working collaboratively with cross-functional teams on projects and/or programs that strive to improve R&D’s competitiveness through speed, agility and excellence in execution
• Leveraging your analytical, leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills to work in teams, identify problems, conduct research, develop recommendations through qualitative and quantitative analysis, and deliver final projects
• Presenting your deliverables/findings through various forums including an intern-wide poster session and a final readout to executive management
• Engaging in learning activities, networking with colleagues across the company, and enjoying full access to Amgen’s Employee Resource Groups
• Meeting with internal stakeholders to identify common questions about procedures and points of contact
• Reviewing and organizing approved Supplier Management Performance & Analytics (SMPA) procedures and related reference materials
• Identifying document gaps, outdated information, or conflicting guidance for review by procedure owners
• Building and configuring an SMPA Procedures agent using Microsoft 365 Copilot Agent Builder or ChatGPT Agent Builder
• Developing clear agent instructions and suggested prompts that guide users to approved source material
• Creating representative test questions, including routine, ambiguous, and out-of-scope scenarios
• Evaluating responses for accuracy, source support, clarity, consistency, and appropriate handling of uncertainty
• Finding documents, recommending improvements, and presenting the prototype and results to stakeholders

This description serves as a general outline for the responsibilities of a graduate intern in R&D EOS. The specific tasks and requirements may vary depending on the nature of the project.

Program Eligibility Requirements

• Must be available to work a full-time schedule.
• Expected continued enrollment in an accredited college or university following the internship program / co-op
• Student must be located in the United States for the duration of the internship program

What We Expect of You

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