Director, Scientific and Operations Intelligence, Obesity

BioSpace; Thousand Oaks (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Amgen is seeking a Director of Scientific and Operations Intelligence, Obesity, to own the non-commercial Obesity Insights & Analytics agenda across R&D, Medical, and Ops domains. You will partner with senior leaders to align priorities, surface dependencies, frame questions, and mobilize data for clear recommendations to Obesity leadership.

Initial capability build emphasizes agile problem solving and building a durable team and operating model.

Qualifications

• Doctorate with 4+ years' relevant experience; or Masters with 7 years; or Bachelors with 9 years.
• Deep leadership across R&D, Medical, Clinical Development, and Operations; ability to translate complex evidence into recommendations.
• Experience in biopharma or life sciences consulting with cross-functional impact.

Responsibilities

• Build and sustain trusted relationships with senior leaders across R&D, Medical, Clinical Development, Clinical Operations, Supply, and related functions.
• Serve as agile problem-solving leader across scientific and operations remit to address high-priority priorities.
• Lead end-to-end priority work: define decision, mobilize data and experts, synthesize findings, and track impact.
• Integrate scientific and operational information into decision-ready option views, including prioritization and readiness.
• Build reusable decision products and analytical capabilities (scenario models, evidence maps, risk dashboards).
• Develop long-term team and operating model across global capabilities and subject-matter experts.
• Foster a culture of analytical rigor, integrity, privacy, governance, and reproducibility.

Skills

Executive communication

Data analysis

Cross-functional leadership

Strategic thinking

Education

Doctorate degree + 4 years exp

Master's degree + 7 years exp

Bachelor's degree + 9 years exp

Tools

AI/Analytics tools

Job description

Join Amgens 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; and track impact.
• Integrate scientific and operational information into decision-ready views of options, dependencies, uncertainties, and trade-offs, including research prioritization, development choices, evidence generation, trial execution, supply capacity, and readiness.
• Build reusable decision products and analytical capabilities, including scenario models, evidence maps, risk dashboards, decision trees, and leading indicators. Apply advanced analytics and AI where they materially improve quality, speed, or scale.
• Build the long-term team and operating model, including intake and prioritization, stakeholder engagement, work-product standards, governance, and an effective delivery model across the India-based Scientific and Operations Intelligence capability, functional analytics teams, and subject-matter experts.
• Create a high-performing culture of intellectual honesty, constructive challenge, analytical rigor, and action, with strong standards for scientific integrity, compliance, privacy, data governance, and reproducibility.

What We Expect Of You

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

Basic Qualifications

• Doctorate degree and 4 years of relevant experience OR
• Masters degree and 7 years of relevant experience OR
• Bachelors degree and 9 years of relevant experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree in life sciences, medicine, pharmacy, public health, epidemiology, data science, engineering, operations research, business, or a related field.
• Ten or more years of experience in biopharma, biotechnology, healthcare, or life sciences consulting, with deep expertise in at least one relevant scientific or operations domain, meaningful experience in another, and demonstrated ability to integrate across functions.
• Demonstrated success framing ambiguous, high-stakes questions and translating complex evidence into recommendations that changed or accelerated a senior leadership decision.
• Proven ability to deliver near-term impact while building a new capability, operating model, or team across a complex global organization.
• Strong understanding of drug discovery and development, medical evidence, clinical trial design and execution, and biopharmaceutical supply operations, with fluency in relevant data, scenario modeling, visualization, and responsible applications of AI.
• Experience in obesity, cardiometabolic disease, or another complex and rapidly evolving therapeutic area is strongly preferred.
• Exceptional executive communication, judgment, and ability to influence, challenge constructively, and create alignment in a global matrix.

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 well 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.

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