Career Category

Clinical Development

Job Description

HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?

At Amgen, every challenge is an opportunity. And every opportunity brings the potential to change lives. Our shared mission—to serve patients—has driven our status as one of the world’s preeminent biotechnology companies, reaching over 10 million patients worldwide. Leverage your high-level expertise to lead and forge partnerships that advance the biotechnical and biopharmaceutical science that can turn the tide of serious, life-interrupting illnesses.

DIRECTOR STUDY START-UP

LIVE

What you will do

In this vital role you will ensure world-class study start-up planning and execution by leading teams, strengthening capabilities, and continuously improving how we deliver high-quality clinical trials at speed.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and inspire the Study Start-Up Management team to deliver high-quality study start-up activities with speed, efficiency, and budget discipline.
• Provide strategic direction and people leadership to SSU Senior Managers, building a high-performing, engaged, and future-ready team.
• Drive continuous improvement through leadership of the SSU Hub, promoting innovation, consistency, and best-practice ways of working.
• Oversee SSU operating model performance, proactively identifying risks and implementing improvements to optimise delivery outcomes.
• Ensure strong SSU management capability through targeted development of skills, processes, systems, and technology expertise.
• Lead SSU manager resource planning and forecasting to ensure optimal capacity and effective portfolio delivery.
• Foster a culture of empowerment, collaboration, and open communication that encourages learning and challenges the status quo.

WIN

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. What we seek in you as an experienced professional, are these qualifications and skills:

• Degree educated
• Clinical trial execution experience and previous experience leading and managing global teams across multiple clinical functions as well as project management experience
• Previous management experience of direct reports and/or global teams across multiple geographies
• Experience working with or overseeing clinical research vendors (e.g., CROs, central labs, imaging).

THRIVE

What you can expect of us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, so we work to care for our teammates’ professional and personal growth and well-being.

• Clear and disciplined strategic vision for the future that leverages superior-quality products, operational excellence and top-shelf-talent
• Diverse and inclusive community of belonging, where teammates are empowered to bring ideas to the table and act
• Generous Total Rewards Plan comprising health, finance and wealth, work/life balance, and career benefits

LOCATION: Ability to work fully remote, or, if situated near an office, the option to work flexibly from home with occasional office presence at our Cambridge or Uxbridge next-generation workspace.

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for a career that defies imagination

What we do is hard. It should be. We are working with each other against the challenges of today for the promise of tomorrow. Lead the way.

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