Competitive Intelligence Senior Manager, Global Biosimilars

BioSpace; Thousand Oaks (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Amgen seeks a senior Competitive Intelligence Manager to lead CI across Biosimilars, partnering with Marketing, Medical, and other functions. You will guide asset and portfolio decisions, leveraging AI and external sources to shape strategy.

You will mentor vendors and internal teams, deliver insightful scenarios, and ensure compliance with CI standards while navigating complex regulatory and market dynamics.

Qualifications

• PhD with 2+ years in competitive intelligence or a related field.
• Masters with 4+ years in competitive intelligence or related field.
• Bachelor's degree with 6+ years in competitive intelligence or related field.
• Associates degree with 10+ years in competitive intelligence or related field.
• High school diploma with 12+ years in competitive intelligence or related field.
• Knowledge of pharma value chain, regulatory considerations, and CI best practices.
• Experience coordinating with cross‑functional teams and managing multiple projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead CI strategy for Biosimilars assets and provide actionable insights to senior stakeholders.
• Define topics, perform primary/secondary research, and deliver clear intelligence packages.
• Leverage AI tools to improve CI workflows and signal detection.
• Integrate data from clinical trials, databases, and external sources into competitive landscapes.
• Mentor vendors and internal partners, conduct rapid response briefings, travel up to 10%.
• Present recommendations to leadership while upholding CI legal and ethical guidelines.

Skills

Competitive intelligence

Vendor management

Storytelling

Cross-functional collaboration

Project leadership

Education

Doctorate degree

Masters degree

Bachelors degree

Associates degree

High school diploma / GED

Tools

TrialTrove

Cortellis

Evaluate Pharma

PubMed

BioMedTracker

AlphaSense

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 a 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, 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 that help people live longer, fuller, happier lives.

Amgen’s 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.

Competitive Intelligence Senior Manager, Global Biosimilars

This role serves as the competitive intelligence lead for multiple pipeline assets within Amgen’s Biosimilars Business Unit. Responsibilities include leading intelligence gathering and AI‑enabled analytics, managing external vendors and internal intelligence networks, presenting recommendations to senior stakeholders, and ensuring all activities are conducted in accordance with Amgen’s legal and ethical competitive intelligence standards.

Work Location

Flex Commuter to Thousand Oaks, CA; minimum one on‑site day per month highly encouraged.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Competitive Intelligence strategy for Biosimilars strategic pipeline assets, serving as the primary thought partner to the Biosimilars Business Unit. Own asset/brand-, therapeutic‑area-, and company‑level CI, developing deep competitiveness expertise including strategic tracking of companies such as Sandoz and Celltrion and translating insights into actionable recommendations for key business decisions.
• Lead the full CI cycle define Key Intelligence Topics/Questions with Marketing and other business colleagues, execute hypothesis driven primary & secondary research, and deliver clear, actionable insight packages for multiple internal stakeholders.
• Leverage and expand AI‑enabled technologies (including Codex, generative AI, NLP, predictive analytics, automation) to improve competitive intelligence workflows, accelerate signal detection and raise insight quality.
• Integrate diverse data sources KOL & investigator interviews, conference intelligence, clinical trial/market databases (e.g., clinicaltrials.gov, TrialTrove, BioMedTracker, Evaluate, Cortellis, Factset, AlphaSense) into cohesive competitive landscapes and scenario plans.
• Direct and mentor a network of external vendors and internal partners to execute research, facilitate team/wargaming simulations, and lead rapid response congress debriefs (10% travel).
• Present strategic recommendations to senior leadership and champion CI best practices, ensuring full compliance with Amgen’s CI Legal & Ethical Guidelines while nurturing talent and contributing to enterprise AI/analytics forums.

What We Expect Of You

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek is a collaborator with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications

• Doctorate degree and 2 years of competitive intelligence or similar experience.
• Masters degree and 4 years of competitive intelligence or similar experience.
• Bachelors degree and 6 years of competitive intelligence or similar experience.
• Associates degree and 10 years of competitive intelligence or similar experience.
• High school diploma / GED and 12 years of competitive intelligence or similar experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of basic principles of functions across the pharmaceutical value chain, including drug discovery & development, clinical trials, FDA / EMA regulation, and drug commercialization.
• Proven track record managing multiple, simultaneous projects and experience working with proprietary technical, regulatory and financial data sources (i.e. TrialTrove, Cortellis Intelligence, Evaluate Pharma, PubMed).
• Experience supporting insight generation by coordinating with cross‑functional commercial, medical & scientific teams to develop therapeutic area strategy.
• Ability to analyze ongoing clinical trials and global regulatory considerations to develop scenarios for competitor launch timing in US, EU, Japan, China and other key markets.
• Understand pharmaceutical forecasting models, and provide competitor‑focused assumptions to estimate market share, in support of long‑range planning scenarios, go/no‑go decisions and opportunity assessment for business development activities.
• Advanced degree (PhD/MS/MBA) focused on life sciences or business.
• 5 years hands‑on experience in biosimilars or biologics competitive intelligence, strategy, or management consulting.
• Demonstrated expertise applying within competitive or market intelligence (e.g., LLM‑based text mining, retrieval‑augmented generation, dashboarding).
• Excellent storytelling skills able to distill complex scientific and commercial data for executive audiences.
• Proven project leadership and vendor‑management capabilities in fast‑moving, matrixed environments.
• High learning agility, intellectual curiosity, and collaborative mindset.

What You Can Expect Of Us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for your professional and personal growth and well‑being. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we will support your journey every step of the way.

The expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is posted. Actual salary will vary based on several factors including but not limited to, relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.

In Addition To The Base Salary, Amgen Offers a Total Rewards Plan, Based On Eligibility, Comprising Of Health And Welfare Plans For Staff And Eligible Dependents, Financial Plans With Opportunities To Save Towards Retirement Or Other Goals, Work/life Balance, And Career Development Opportunities That May Include

• A comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions, group medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts.
• A discretionary annual bonus program, or for field sales representatives, a sales‑based incentive plan.
• Stock‑based long‑term incentives.
• Award‑winning time‑off plans.
• Flexible work models where possible. Refer to the Work Location Type in the job posting to see if this applies.

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Application deadline

Amgen does not have an application deadline for this position; we will continue accepting applications until we receive a sufficient number or select a candidate for the position.

Sponsorship

Sponsorship for this role is not guaranteed.

As an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people around the world, Amgen fosters an inclusive environment of diverse, ethical, committed and highly accomplished people who respect each other and live the Amgen values to continue advancing science to serve patients. Together, we compete in the fight against serious disease.

Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.