Director, Scientific and Operations Intelligence, Obesity

Amgen; Thousand Oaks (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Amgen Inc. in Thousand Oaks, CA, seeks a Director of Scientific and Operations Intelligence focused on Obesity to lead non-commercial insights across R&D, Medical, Clinical Development, and Operations.

You will partner with senior leaders to align priorities, frame questions, and mobilize data to improve decisions and outcomes. You will build an agile, end-to-end analytics capability, prioritize work, and measure impact through decisions, risks, and value.

Job description

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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.

Director, Scientific and Operations Intelligence, Obesity

This role owns the non‑commercial Obesity Insights & Analytics agenda across scientific domains, including R&D, Medical, and Clinical Development, and operations domains, including Clinical Operations, Supply, and related Operations functions.

As the trusted Insights & Analytics partner to senior leaders across these functions, the Director connects priorities, surfaces cross‑functional dependencies, frames the questions with the greatest potential to improve decisions and outcomes, and mobilizes the right data and expertise to deliver clear recommendations for Obesity and Related Conditions leadership.

During the initial capability build, the Director will operate as an agile enterprise problem solver, flexing across the highest‑priority functional and cross‑functional needs.

In parallel, the Director will build the long‑term team, operating model, and recurring portfolio required to create sustained value.

The Director is accountable for prioritization, problem framing, analytical strategy and delivery, executive synthesis, and decision‑impact measurement, partnering with the India‑based Scientific and Operations Intelligence capability and other experts to scale delivery.

Commercial Insights & Analytics and Competitive Intelligence are outside the remit.

Success is measured by decisions improved, risks anticipated, and value created.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and sustain trusted relationships with senior leaders across R&D, Medical, Clinical Development, Clinical Operations, Supply, and related Operations functions to understand evolving priorities, connect interdependencies, and shape the Insights & Analytics agenda.
• Anchor each priority to a clear question, decision date, decision owner, and value at stake, and ensure insights translate into decisions and action.
• Serve as an agile problem‑solving leader across the scientific and operations remit, rapidly deploying to the most consequential functional and cross‑functional priorities rather than operating through fixed workstreams.
• Lead priority work end to end: define the decision and hypotheses; determine the analytical approach; mobilize the right data, capabilities, and experts; synthesize findings; recommend a course of action;