Competitive Intelligence Sr Manager - Thousand Oaks CA

VetJobs; Thousand Oaks (CA); Hybrid; USD 156,000 - 211,000; Full time

Job summary

VetJobs is seeking a Competitive Intelligence Senior Manager to lead CI for Amgen’s Biosimilars Business Unit across multiple pipeline assets. You will guide intelligence gathering, AI-enabled analytics, and external/vendor collaboration while presenting strategic recommendations to senior stakeholders.

The role requires oversight of CI activities, compliance with legal and ethical guidelines, and ongoing collaboration with internal teams.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree(s) in life sciences or business preferred.
• Experience leading competitive intelligence in biosimilars or biologics is valued.
• Ability to manage external vendors and internal partners at scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead CI strategy for Biosimilars pipeline assets and serve as primary thought partner.
• Define topics, conduct primary/secondary research, and deliver actionable insights.
• Leverage AI-enabled tools to improve CI workflows and signal detection.
• Integrate diverse data sources into cohesive competitive landscapes and scenarios.
• Direct vendor and internal networks, mentor teams, travel ~10%.
• Present recommendations to senior leadership while ensuring regulatory compliance.

Education

Doctorate

Master’s degree

Bachelor’s degree

Associate’s degree

High school diploma

Competitive intelligence

Vendor management

Leadership

Storytelling

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Competitive Intelligence Senior Manager, Global Biosimilars

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world.

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 competitor 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 red‑team/war‑gaming 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.

Additional Qualifications/Responsibilities

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
• OR
• Master’s degree and 4 years of competitive intelligence or similar experience
• OR
• Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of competitive intelligence or similar experience
• OR
• Associate’s degree and 10 years of competitive intelligence or similar experience
• OR
• 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
• 5years 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’ll 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.

Salary Range 155,747.20USD -210,716.80 USD