Senior Program Manager

Career Category

Business Development

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.

Senior Program Manager

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will be responsible for managing complex projects or programs. You will oversee all aspects of the project lifecycle, from planning and execution to monitoring and closing. This role often involves managing a project team and coordinating with multiple departments.

This is a key role whose overarching objective is to drive the development and execution of Medical Strategy in collaboration with Medical Affairs Leads. In this vital role, you will ensure key deliverables including medical plans, insights, budgets and goals are brought to completion. The Senior Manager is a cross-functional, collaborative role across global and local medical teams. You will identify metrics, progress, interdependencies, and concerns, facilitate resolution as needed, and keep the Medical Affairs Team aligned around its priorities.

The Sr. PM role will partner with the Asset Lead to drive cross-functional planning, manage project risks, and drive resolution of complex issues while aligning strategic goals across the broader organization.

Given close partnership with USML, GMAL, and global cross-functional stakeholders, the Senior Manager must maintain working hours with meaningful Pacific Time overlap. Availability generally from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time, plus flexibility for key meetings, business priorities, and global deliverables, is required.

Responsibilities:

• Drive the coordination and integration of insights in partnership with the Medical Affairs Lead to inform product strategy for global and local teams.
• Be a key point of communication to ensure execution of the Medical Plan, including goal development and regular progress tracking.
• Drive the Medical Plan process and ensure alignment between global and local Medical leads, including large and ROW/emerging markets.
• Understand the Global Medical Strategy and ensure integration through close partnership with EGT, AUEG, IBT and other critical cross-functional partners.
• Drive decision making within the Global Medical Affairs Team and ensure decisions, actions, and follow-up are clearly documented.
• Identify key deliverables for each function and their interdependencies; maintain integrated plans
• Implement standard methodologies and reinforce cross-functional alignment and accountability.
• Identify project issues, risks, and resource gaps; facilitate resolution, contingency planning, and escalation as appropriate.
• Reinforce sound decision making according to Amgen’s Decision-Making Framework.
• Monitor and communicate progress, adherence to timelines, and variance from plan to Medical Affairs leadership.
• Facilitate resource planning, financial planning, and capacity assessments in partnership with the Asset Lead.
• Conduct risk management, contingency, and scenario planning using a variety of project management tools.
• Support continuous improvement within the Medical Affairs Team and Program management function.
• Drive operational excellence and automation by applying approved emerging technologies, including AI tools such as Copilot, to strengthen Medical planning, reporting, and ways of working.

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The qualified professional we seek is a Senior Manager with strong program-management experience and the ability to work effectively in a complex, global matrix environment with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree and 2 years of Project Management experience

OR

Master’s degree and 4 years of Project Management experience

OR

Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of Project Management experience

OR

Associate’s degree and 10 years of Project Management experience

OR

High school diploma / GED and 12 years of Project Management experience

Preferred Qualifications:

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