Sr. Manager – U.S. Marketing Strategic Planning and Operations - Sjögren’s Disease

Career Category

Marketing

Job Description

At Amgen, if you feel like you are a 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 lie within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. Sjögren’s disease is a chronic autoimmune condition with significant unmet need and no approved disease-modifying therapies. As Sr. Manager, U.S. Marketing Strategic Planning & Operations, you will be at the center of preparing the U.S. organization for the dazodalibep launch, one of Amgen’s important upcoming Rare Disease launches. You will help turn an ambitious strategy into aligned priorities, clear plans, and disciplined execution across the brand team.

This role is an opportunity to shape how a launch team plans, makes decisions, measures progress, and learns. You will bring structure to complex work, keep leaders and cross-functional partners aligned, and make the brand priorities and story simple and compelling—both verbally and visually—so teams understand what matters and how to act.

Key Responsibilities

· Partner with the U.S. Launch Lead and leadership team to translate brand strategy into focused priorities, objectives, milestones, and clear communication across the organization.

· Coordinate cross-functional planning across workstreams; track progress, dependencies, risks, decisions, and actions to maintain alignment and momentum toward launch.

· Lead special projects that advance brand priorities, resolve barriers and improve team effectiveness; bring forward recommendations and practical solutions.

· Turn complex strategy, data, and performance information into concise, compelling narratives and visual materials for leadership, brand teams, and sales audiences; support presenters in communicating the story clearly.

· Coordinate brand performance reporting and leadership updates, synthesizing results and insights into implications, decisions, and recommended actions.

· Lead the brand team operating rhythm, including leadership meetings, planning forums, agendas, pre-reads, decision documentation, and follow-through on commitments.

· Partner with Finance and Marketing to forecast and track brand budgets, identify trade-offs, and ensure investment choices align with launch priorities and broader business direction.

· Maintain an integrated annual brand calendar and coordinate major planning milestones, including sales meetings and other launch-critical forums with internal teams and external partners.

· Creating effective feedback loops across Sales, Marketing, and other functions so field needs and insights inform planning and teams stay connected to the latest priorities.

· Support team culture through thoughtful internal communications, recognition, and engagement that strengthen connection and shared accountability.

Basic Qualifications

· Doctorate degree and 2 years of sales, sales ops and/or marketing experience; Or

· Master’s degree and 4 years of sales, sales ops and/or marketing experience; Or

· Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of sales, sales ops and/or marketing experience; Or

· Associate’s degree and 10 years of sales, sales ops and/or marketing experience

Preferred Qualifications

· Strong communication, proven ability to influence without authority and matrix management skills across a broad range of internal and co-promote functions will be paramount.

· Exceptional project management skills

· Strong business analysis skills and budget management savvy

· Tactical planning and analytical experience

· Strong ability to translate complex data/information into simple, actionable insights

· Excellent written, analytical and oral communication skills

· Strong PowerPoint and Excel skills, including direct experience using these skills in professional setting

· Field sales and/or marketing experience a plus

Our culture is what makes Amgen a special place to work. We have a powerful shared purpose around our mission – to serve patients. We respect one another, recognize contributions, and have embedded collaboration, trust, empowerment, and inclusion in all that we do!

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