Obesity Intelligence & Analytics, Senior Director, Global Insights

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

Job summary

Amgen in Thousand Oaks, CA, seeks a Senior Director, Global Insights for Obesity to lead integrated commercial insights shaping global strategy, primary/secondary research, forecasting, and portfolio opportunities.

You will partner with Commercial, Marketing, Medical, Clinical Development, and Value & Access; oversee stakeholder alignment, manage external partners, and drive evidence-based decisions in a fast-evolving market.

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.

OI&A Senior Director, Global Insights

Role Overview

The Senior Director, Global Insights, Obesity will lead the development and delivery of integrated commercial insights that shape the global strategy for Amgen’s obesity portfolio, including MariTide, pipeline assets, and broader therapeutic area opportunities.

This individual will serve as the primary insights partner to the Global Obesity Program and will work closely with Commercial, Global Marketing, Medical, Clinical Development, and Value & Access. The role will establish and lead an integrated insights agenda that connects primary market research, secondary analytics, forecasting, competitive intelligence, and internal knowledge to inform therapeutic area, asset, and evidence-generation strategies.

The Senior Director will be a highly collaborative and influential business partner who can translate complex and evolving business questions into focused learning plans and actionable recommendations. The individual will proactively identify emerging opportunities and risks, challenge established thinking when appropriate, and help senior leaders make objective, evidence-based decisions in an environment characterized by significant uncertainty and rapid market evolution.

This role reports to the Executive Director, Obesity Intelligence & Analytics, Commercial and requires 3 days on campus,

Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior insights partner for the Global Obesity Program, developing trusted relationships with global commercial leaders and cross-functional stakeholders across MariTide, pipeline assets, and the broader obesity therapeutic area.
• Establish and lead an integrated global insights agenda aligned with therapeutic area priorities, asset strategies, clinical development milestones, commercialization needs, and internal governance decisions.
• Lead the design and execution of primary market research across the product lifecycle, including early asset assessment, clinical development, target product profile optimization, positioning, segmentation, launch planning, lifecycle management, and indication expansion.
• Integrate primary research, secondary analytics, forecasting, competitive intelligence, advisory boards, real-world evidence, and internal expertise to develop a cohesive understanding of the market and its implications for Amgen.
• Partner with Forecasting, Analytics, Competitive Intelligence, Value & Access, Medical, and Clinical Development teams to ensure that insights are translated into aligned assumptions, scenarios, strategic choices, and business recommendations.
• Provide insight leadership for obesity therapeutic area strategy, including market development, patient and healthcare professional needs, treatment pathways, competitive evolution, portfolio opportunities, and potential future standards of care.
• Develop business cases, scenario analyses, strategic workshops, and senior-level narratives to support portfolio decisions, clinical development plans, investment prioritization, lifecycle strategy, and governance discussions.
• Translate complex findings into clear implications and recommendations for senior leadership, including Therapeutic Area leadership, governance committees, and executive-level audiences.
• Act as an objective strategic thought partner and constructive challenger, identifying gaps in evidence, testing assumptions, reconciling conflicting information, and introducing alternative perspectives when needed.
• Lead stakeholder alignment around key business questions, learning priorities, budgets, work plans, methodologies, and decision timelines across multiple assets and workstreams.
• Identify and develop innovative insight-generation approaches, data sources, analytic methods, and external partnerships that strengthen Amgen’s understanding of the obesity market.
• Select and manage best-in-class research and consulting partners, ensuring that external work meets expectations for strategic relevance, methodological rigor, quality, timeliness, and budget.
• Lead and develop direct reports and cross-functional project teams, building strong strategic, analytical, consulting, and communication capabilities while personally leading select high-priority initiatives.
• Ensure that all projects comply with applicable Amgen policies, standard operating procedures, legal and regulatory requirements, and service-level expectations.

What We Expect Of You

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

Basic Qualifications

• Doctorate degree and 5 years of experience in market research, commercial insights, analytics, competitive intelligence, forecasting, strategy, marketing, or a related discipline; OR
• Master’s degree and 9 years of experience in market research, commercial insights, analytics, competitive intelligence, forecasting, strategy, marketing, or a related discipline; OR
• Bachelor’s degree and 11 years of experience in market research, commercial insights, analytics, competitive intelligence, forecasting, strategy, marketing, or a related discipline; AND
• 5 years of managerial experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience directing teams, major programs, complex projects, or the allocation of significant resources.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to serve as a strategic advisor to senior commercial, medical, clinical, and cross-functional leaders.
• Strong understanding of global drug development, commercialization, portfolio strategy, and the broader healthcare environment, including the perspectives of patients, healthcare professionals, payers, policymakers, and health systems.
• Experience supporting early and late-stage assets, therapeutic area strategy, product launches, lifecycle planning, or portfolio investment decisions.
• Deep experience leading primary market research and integrating research findings with secondary data, analytics, competitive intelligence, and forecasting.
• Strong business acumen, strategic and critical thinking, and the ability to identify the implications of incomplete, complex, or conflicting information.
• Ability to frame ambiguous business issues, establish clear hypotheses and learning priorities, and translate evidence into actionable strategic recommendations.
• Demonstrated ability to influence decisions without direct authority and align stakeholders with different functional perspectives, priorities, and incentives.
• Experience operating across global and local organizations and balancing the needs of therapeutic area, asset, functional, and geographic stakeholders.
• Excellent executive communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to simplify complex concepts and clearly articulate implications, choices, risks, and recommendations.
• Ability to manage multiple high-priority initiatives simultaneously while maintaining strategic focus, analytical rigor, and strong execution.
• Demonstrated people leadership capabilities, including attracting, developing, coaching, and retaining high-performing talent.
• Experience within obesity, cardiometabolic disease, or another complex and rapidly evolving therapeutic area is preferred.

The successful candidate will be a commercially oriented insights leader who combines strategic judgment, analytical rigor, stakeholder leadership, and deep curiosity. They will be comfortable operating in ambiguity, constructively challenging assumptions, and helping Amgen make informed choices that strengthen the obesity portfolio and advance the company’s long-term therapeutic area strategy.

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.

Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer

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.

#obesity