Executive Director, Global Medical Affairs, GU & GI Platform

About this role

Career Category Medical Affairs 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-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.

Executive Director, Global Medical Affairs GU and GI Platform Lead

What you will do Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role as Executive Director, GMA, GU & GI Platform Lead you will lead the Global Medical Affairs strategies for Amgen’s GU & GI portfolio of marketed and pipeline assets. You will manage a team of Global Medical Affairs Leads and International Medical Directors to drive the development and execution of integrated oncology medical strategies that maximize Amgen’s scientific and clinical value proposition in alignment with product and franchise objectives.

This role will provide enterprise leadership across evidence generation, scientific communication, launch excellence, congress strategy, external engagement, medical education, and strategic partnerships. The successful candidate will collaborate extensively with cross-functional stakeholders to shape medical strategy throughout the lifecycle of GU & GI assets, including both marketed products and pipeline programs.

In addition to overseeing the GU & GI Medical Affairs Platform, this role will partner with leaders across Global Development, Commercial, Access, R&D, and regional medical organizations to support the advancement of innovative therapies and optimize scientific engagement with the external oncology communities.

Amgen continues to rapidly advance its oncology pipeline, requiring strong leadership to build scalable medical capabilities, support launch readiness, drive external scientific engagement, and ensure alignment across global and regional stakeholders.

This role will serve as a key member of the Global Medical Affairs Oncology leadership team and will report to the Vice President, Global Medical Affairs Therapeutic Area Head.

Responsibilities • Serve on the Global Medical Affairs leadership team to help shape Oncology and strategic priorities

• Lead the development and execution of integrated global medical strategies across GU, GI, and portfolios

• Partner with cross-functional leaders in Global Development, Commercial, Access, R&D, and regional medical teams to ensure alignment on scientific and medical objectives

• Leading and developing Global Medical Affairs Leads to drive excellence in launch planning, evidence generation, scientific communication, congress strategy, medical education, and stakeholder engagement

• Oversee the global congress strategy and scientific engagement activities across GU &GI, ensuring strategic prioritization, cross-functional alignment, and budget stewardship across regions

• Drive the development of scientific narrative frameworks, core content, educational initiatives, publications strategies, and external engagement plans

• Engage with key opinion leaders, cooperative groups, professional societies, and academic networks to strengthen Amgen’s scientific partnerships and reputation

• Support strategic planning and execution of medical education initiatives across physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and patient-focused stakeholders

• Collaborate with Field Medical leadership to develop a coordinated approach to external engagement and insight generation

• Ensuring capture, analysis, and dissemination of scientific insights and emerging trends from congresses, professional societies, and external stakeholder interactions

• Support launch readiness and lifecycle management activities for both marketed and pipeline assets

• Provide strategic input into reimbursement, access, and value-based partnership initiatives

• Lead resource planning, prioritization, and budget allocation to support Medical Affairs objectives

• Drive innovation and operational excellence, including the integration of AI-enabled solutions across medical engagement, congress planning, stakeholder management, and medical operations

• Recruit, develop, and mentor high-performing Medical Affairs teams while fostering a collaborative, patient-focused culture

• Continuing to strengthen Amgen’s reputation as a science-driven, patient-focused partner within the oncology communities

What we expect of you We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The executive candidate we are seeking is an experienced leader with the following qualifications.

Basic Qualifications: • Doctorate degree & 6 years of Medical Affairs experience OR

• Master’s degree & 10 years of Medical Affairs experience OR

• Bachelor’s degree & 12 years of Medical Affairs experience AND

• 6 years of managerial experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, programs, projects, or directing allocation of resources

Preferred Qualifications: • MD, PharmD, or PhD with expertise in Oncology

• Launch experience in Prostate Cancer

• Extensive experience within GU, and GI therapeutic areas

• 10+ years of biopha

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