Strategic Capabilities & Engagement Lead

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.

Strategic Capabilities & Engagement Lead

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will report to the AVP of Corporate Affairs for Obesity and Related Conditions (OaR) and own the operating model and ongoing capabilities for the OaR Corporate Affairs team. You will enable the delivery of OaR Corporate Affairs priorities by developing an integrated approach across workstreams, establishing a clear cadence for execution, measuring progress and impact, and creating a continuous feedback loop to refine plans and improve outcomes. As a strategic partner to the AVP, you will support the ecosystem and stakeholder engagement strategy in partnership with accountable cross-functional leaders and build the AI, digital and information-ecosystem capabilities the OaR team needs. You will work in close partnership with the Corporate Affairs Launch Enablement Lead for is Obesity and Related Conditions, who contributes Corporate Affairs readiness to the integrated U.S. launch plan, and help build on the learnings from each launch to strengthen the function over time.

Responsibilities:

• Internal engagement planning: Own an integrated plan that connects employees to Corporate Affairs strategy, priority activities and key decisions. Shape leadership narratives, channels and events, and establish measures of understanding, engagement and adoption.
• External engagement strategy: Partner with accountable cross-functional leaders to identify, map and prioritize stakeholders and engagement opportunities. Set an appropriate engagement cadence, coordinate execution, and track actions, owners, next steps and outcomes against portfolio priorities.
• Ecosystem strategy and coordination: Lead Corporate Affairs ecosystem work, connecting internal priorities, external stakeholders and cross-functional initiatives into an integrated approach with clear ownership, sequencing and intended outcomes.
• Priority planning and focus: Translate leadership priorities into integrated quarterly and rolling 3-, 6-, 9- and 12-month plans. Sequence the highest-value activities, clarify ownership and identify resource recommendations.
• Team performance and accountability: Establish the operating cadence and dashboards used to track commitments, outcomes, dependencies and risks. Surface trade-offs early and drive follow-through, escalation and corrective action.
• Cross-functional leadership alignment: Represent Corporate Affairs in planning and leadership forums, align priorities and decision points, and resolve or escalate dependencies that could impede business-critical work.
• Capability, AI and technology enablement: Identify capability gaps and lead an enablement roadmap that prepares the function to deliver priority work. Apply AI and technology to improve planning, insight generation, content, collaboration and productivity, with clear adoption and impact measures.
• Continuous improvement: Use engagement feedback, performance data and lessons learned to refine plans, operating practices and capability investments over time.

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 influential leader with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree and 4 years of Corporate Affairs, Communications, Public Affairs, Launch Excellence, Program Management, or related biopharmaceutical business functions experience.

OR

Master’s degree and 7 years of Corporate Affairs, Communications, Public Affairs, Launch Excellence, Program Management, or related biopharmaceutical business functions experience.

OR

Bachelor’s degree and 9 years of Corporate Affairs, Communications, Public Affairs, Launch Excellence, Program Management, or related biopharmaceutical business functions experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

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