Sr Digital Product Manager - R&D Commercialization & PPM

Amgen; India; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Amgen India seeks a Senior Manager Product Manager to act as a Digital Product Owner for a defined portfolio of R&D Commercialization technology products and systems. You will translate business priorities into product roadmaps, investment plans, and measurable outcomes while leading AIN-based technology staff supporting Commercialization.

You will maintain relationships with business stakeholders, balance demand with capacity, and drive DPOM-aligned technology delivery across multiple teams.

Qualifications

• Translate business priorities into product roadmaps, features and outcomes.
• Lead and manage a digital product portfolio and its lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Serve as Product Owner for defined portfolio of R&D Commercialization digital products, apps, data solutions, and capabilities.
• Develop and maintain product roadmaps aligned to business priorities and enterprise strategy.
• Define product capabilities, requirements, acceptance criteria, and measures of success.

Skills

Product ownership

Stakeholder management

People leadership

Agile delivery

Job description

Career Category

Information Systems

Job Description

The Senior Manager Product Manager will serve as a Digital Product Owner for a defined portfolio of R&D Commercialization technology products and systems and as the Amgen India (AIN) technology lead for R&D Commercialization and PPM. This role is accountable for translating R&D Commercialization business priorities into product roadmaps, investment priorities, delivery plans, and measurable technology outcomes. The individual will maintain primary relationships with key business stakeholders for their assigned product portfolio and ensure technology investments and team capacity remain aligned to the highest-value business needs. As the AIN lead for Commercialization, this individual will provide direct people leadership for AIN-based technology staff supporting Commercialization, including talent development, performance management, workforce planning, and building the skills and capabilities required to support an evolving Digital Product Operating Model (DPOM). The successful candidate will combine product ownership, business relationship management, people leadership, and technology delivery experience. The role will work closely with Digital Product Management leadership, Product Owners, Release Train/Delivery leadership, Business Analysts, Technical Leads, engineering teams, enterprise technology partners, and R&D Commercialization and PPM stakeholders.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

Digital Product Ownership & Product Strategy

• Serve as Product Owner for a defined portfolio of R&D Commercialization digital products, applications, data solutions, and technology capabilities.
• Develop and maintain product roadmaps aligned to R&D Commercialization priorities, business outcomes, enterprise technology strategy, and DPOM principles.
• Translate business needs and strategic priorities into clearly defined product capabilities, value drops, features, and prioritized backlogs.
• Own ongoing prioritization of demand within the assigned product portfolio, balancing business value, operational needs, technical sustainability, risk, dependencies, and available capacity.
• Partner with business stakeholders, Business Analysts, Technical Leads, and delivery teams to define product outcomes, requirements, acceptance criteria, and measures of success.
• Ensure product teams understand the business processes, users, outcomes, and value their products enable.
• Make day-to-day product prioritization and capacity decisions within established strategic and investment guardrails.
• Maintain visibility into product health, roadmap execution, value realization, risks, technical debt, and lifecycle needs.

Business Stakeholder Relationship Management

• Serve as a primary technology relationship leader for designated R&D Commercialization business stakeholders and capability areas.
• Develop a deep understanding of Commercialization business processes, strategic priorities, operational challenges, and emerging technology, data, and AI opportunities.
• Build trusted relationships with business leaders and process owners and act as a strategic technology advisor rather than solely a delivery point of contact.
• Facilitate prioritization discussions that balance stakeholder demand with product strategy, technology capacity, enterprise standards, and expected business value.
• Partner with stakeholders to develop business cases, investment recommendations, roadmap priorities, and measurable product outcomes.
• Communicate product strategy, roadmap progress, delivery status, risks, dependencies, investment needs, and key decisions to business and technology leadership.
• Proactively identify opportunities where technology, data, automation, analytics, or AI can improve Commercialization outcomes.

AIN Leadership & People Management

• Serve as the AIN technology lead for R&D Commercialization and PPM, providing leadership and coordination across AIN resources supporting the Commercialization and PPM technology portfolio.
• Directly manage assigned AIN Information Systems staff, including goal setting, performance management, coaching, career development, engagement, and talent planning.
• Recruit, interview, onboard, develop, and retain talent needed to support Commercialization's evolving digital product portfolio.
• Establish clear role expectations and ensure staff understand how their contributions connect to product outcomes and broader R&D priorities.
• Develop technical, product, business analysis, Agile, data, and AI capabilities within the AIN organization based on current and future portfolio needs.
• Coach staff toward greater ownership, independent decision-making, business understanding, and product-oriented ways of working.
• Support workforce and capacity planning across Commercialization product teams, including alignment of skills and resources to product demand.
• Foster strong collaboration between AIN and US-based staff and create an integrated global team operating model rather than location-based deliver