Director, Global Insights - Rare Disease - Remote

Amgen; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement plan

Stock awards

Flexible work model

Paid time off

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Amgen seeks a Global Insights Director for Rare Disease to lead a team delivering strategic commercial insights across TEPEZZA, UPLIZNA, KRYSTEXXA, and pipeline assets. You will integrate internal data, secondary analytics, and primary market research to shape franchise strategy and decision making.

You will partner with Marketing, Value & Access, Forecasting, and other functions, communicating insights to senior leaders and aligning cross-functional stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Doctorate degree with 4+ years of market research/analytics/CI/sales/marketing operations experience.
• OR Master’s degree with 8+ years of market research, analytics, competitive intelligence, sales and/or marketing operations experience.
• OR Bachelor’s degree with 10 years of market research, analytics, competitive intelligence, sales and/or marketing operations experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams synthesizing information from diverse sources to develop strategic insights.
• Integrate insights to develop business cases and facilitate workshops for lifecycle decisions.
• Plan and conduct primary market research with agencies for assets across product lifecycle.
• Lead ad hoc strategic analytics to inform decisions.
• Communicate insights clearly to senior leadership and cross-functional partners.
• Partner with commercial leadership to define objectives, budgets, and work plans.
• Manage vendor relationships and drive capability innovation.
• Develop direct reports while leading select projects.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Market research

Primary research

Data analysis

Storytelling

Education

PhD in a relevant field

Master's degree

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Biopharma datasets

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 our 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, and 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 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.

BAI Director, Global Insights, Rare Disease – Remote

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world! In this vital role the Global Commercial Insights Director will be responsible for driving commercial insights that shape strategy and key decisions for the rare disease portfolio, including TEPEZZA, UPLIZNA, KRYSTEXXA and pipeline assets. This includes leading a team that generates insights by integrating a myriad of sources that may include (but not limited to) internal knowledge, strategic secondary analytics, and primary market research.

The individual in this role is a collaborative business partner that can align business questions with impactful insight generation approaches and influence commercial perspectives on franchise/product strategy, brand building, and decisions for internal governance. They are an effective communicator and storyteller and a passionate champion of insights-driven strategy. They engage partners and drive alignment on an approach that advances thinking and enables objective and data-driven decision-making in the face of ambiguity.

This position reports to the Executive Director for Global Insights, within Business Analytics and Insight (BAI) but will work day-to-day with Global partners including Marketing, Value & Access, Forecasting, Competitive Intelligence, etc.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams synthesizing information from a variety of sources (e.g., market research, competitive intelligence, secondary data, advisory boards) to develop strategic insights that address business needs
• Integrate insights and knowledge to develop business cases and facilitate workshops to support clinical development plans, lifecycle management and other strategic decisions
• Plan, design and conduct primary market research with a research agency for assets across various phases of the product lifecycle to enable strategic decision making
• Lead ad hoc strategic secondary analytics to inform strategic decisions
• Clearly communicate insights and recommendations to variety of audiences, including senior leadership (e.g., Therapeutic Area Heads), and become a “devil’s advocate” when needed
• Partner with commercial leadership and cross-functional partners to define and prioritize objectives, budget and work plans to meet evolving business needs
• Identify, evaluate, and manage relationships with best-in-class vendors and look for opportunities to innovate and advance capabilities
• Manage and develop direct reports, while individually leading select projects when needed
• Ensure that both routine and ad-hoc projects are in compliance with all Amgen SOPs and meet service-level expectations for quality, timeliness, and budget

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 collaborative leader with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree and 4 years of market research, analytics, competitive intelligence, sales and/or marketing operations experience

OR

Master’s degree and 8 years of market research, analytics, competitive intelligence, sales and/or marketing operations experience

OR

Bachelor’s degree and 10 years of market research, analytics, competitive intelligence, sales and/or marketing operations experience

In addition to meeting at least one of the above requirements, you must have at least 4 years’ experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs, or directing the allocation or resources. Your managerial experience may run concurrently with the required technical experience referenced above

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated exceptional business acumen, strategic / critical thinking skills, and ability to influence key decisions
• Ability to independently extract, analyze, treat, and consolidate data from sources in formats with rigor and high level of accuracy and translate into actionable recommendations
• Excellent oral, written and presentation skills with ability to explain complex concepts clearly to a variety of audiences, including senior management
• Ability to work collaboratively and adaptively in team-based, cross-functional environments
• Ability to balance a multitude of stakeholders and projects in parallel
• Strong knowledge of drug development, commercialization and the broader healthcare industry (patients, HCPs, payers)
• Experience leading primary research
• Experience with biopharmaceutical industry datasets and databases

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.

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 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. We make all employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

We provide reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities, consistent with legal requirements. Please contact us to request accommodation.