Senior Manager, Strategic Planning & Operations, Inflammation Research

About this role

Career Category Scientific 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.

Senior Manager, Strategic Planning & Operations, Inflammation Research

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will serve as a strategic partner to the VP Research and the Inflammation Leadership Team, translating TA strategy into measurable priorities, operating plans, and outcomes. You will facilitate strategic planning, organizational effectiveness, technology and AI-enabled initiatives, business operations, and executive communications across the Inflammation Therapeutic Area.

This role combines scientific insight, strategic thinking, operational leadership, and organizational influence to accelerate delivery of transformative medicines to patients.

Key Responsibilities

Provide strategic and operational leadership

• Partner directly with the VP Research and Inflammation Leadership Team to define, execute, and track TA strategy, annual goals, long-range priorities, and operating mechanisms. • Translate strategic priorities into measurable goals, action plans, milestones, KPIs, and accountability frameworks that improve decision-making and execution across the TA. • Serve as a trusted advisor and thought partner on portfolio, organizational, capability, and investment decisions. • Turn complex or unstructured business, scientific, and operational issues into clear action plans, cross-functional initiatives, and decision-ready deliverables. Operationalize portfolio governance and planning

• Enable effective portfolio governance by coordinating the processes, analytics, operating mechanisms, and follow-through required to support leadership decisions. • Develop portfolio dashboards, KPI metrics, risk assessments, and reporting tools that provide timely visibility into portfolio health, execution, and organizational performance. • Work with TA leadership to coordinate governance activities and decision forums, ensuring effective preparation, communication, execution, and action tracking. • Partner with scientific and portfolio leaders to surface risks, opportunities, tradeoffs, and resource requirements while supporting informed and timely decision-making. • Promote accountability for implementation of governance decisions and strategic priorities across the organization.

Advance technology, AI, innovation, and capability development

• Coordinate TA-level technology, AI, computational, and innovation initiatives that strengthen research strategy, portfolio execution, and scientific decision-making. • Partner with scientific leaders to identify capability gaps, evaluate innovation opportunities, and encourage adoption of emerging technologies and best practices. • Leverage AI-enabled tools and operational systems to improve portfolio management, project reviews, knowledge synthesis, decision support, and operating efficiency. • Support external collaborations by helping track scientific progress, milestones, budgets, risks, and decision points in partnership with scientific and business stakeholders.

Enhancing organizational effectiveness and culture

• Drive leadership team effectiveness, operating cadence, and cross-functional alignment across the Inflammation TA. • Lead high-priority special projects involving organizational design, talent strategy, capability building, change management, and operational improvement. • Contribute to a strong scientific culture by supporting planning offsites, seminar series, topical symposia, training, staff profiles, mentoring connections, and other engagement mechanisms. • Establish practical processes, tools, and ways of working that improve transparency, accountability, learning, and execution across the TA.

Lead business operations and executive communications

• Coordinate budgeting, resource planning, headcount management, and scenario analyses in partnership with Finance, HR, Research Operations, and TA leadership. • Coordinate talent management processes, including hiring, promotions, workforce planning, and related personnel actions. • Develop executive-level presentations, business reviews, strategic communications, governance materials, portfolio reviews, and leadership updates. • Communicate strategic priorities, decisions, progress, risks, and actions clearly across the organization and with senior stakeholders.

What we expect of you We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The strategic and operational leader we seek is a Senior Manager with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree and 2 years of biotech/pharma-related management, project management, or strategic operations experience

OR

Master’s degree and 4 years of biotech/pharma-related management, project management, or strategic operations experience

OR   Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of biotech/pharma-related management, project man

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