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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.

Competitive Intelligence Manager, Obesity

What will you do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will support the Obesity CI team within the Obesity Intelligence and Analytics team, a vital part of Global Commercial Capabilities & Innovation at Amgen.

The Competitive Intelligence (CI) team is a strategic thought partner to our cross-functional leadership on high-level business and competitive intelligence issues that influence Amgen’s strategic decisions today and in the future. The team is responsible for ensuring CI research, analysis, and assessments are appropriately factored into business decisions and strategies and help guide optimal business positioning for all therapeutic areas (TAs) across the portfolio and lifecycle. The team will provide unbiased, objective, and expert strategic CI insights, tailormade for the broader cross-functional teams.

This is a flex-commuter position at Amgen’s Thousand Oaks, CA location, and will require 3 days on campus per week.

This person will:

• Be a strategic thought partner to key collaborators across disease area, brand, corporate, and other cross-functional teams supporting Amgen’s Obesity team.

• Synthesize information from multiple sources to develop strategic insights and point of view on key competitive developments, implications to Amgen and actions Amgen must take.

• Work in a highly cross functional manner and manage changing priorities across several key customers.

• Develop productive relationships with Global and Regional teams to define business problems and develop integrated analysis plans based on standard methodologies.

• Apply structured problem solving to collect, analyze and report CI, incorporating primary and secondary data sources to generate meaningful insights.

• Articulate and educate customers on the relevant impact of changing market dynamics to their business from a CI perspective.

• Organize and facilitate strategic exercises & competitive simulations to generate competitive insights and company plans.

• Coordinate and facilitate CI collection efforts at major medical conferences/congresses.

• Manage a network of primary data sources, including vendors and Amgen employees, to enable effective project delivery.

• Assess the reliability of CI research findings, maintaining high standards for accuracy, relevance, and quality in deliverables at all times and communicate level of evidence to key partners.

• Present on a regular basis in-depth analyses and summaries of results, interpreting and communicating results with recommendations to key stakeholders.

• Work to grow competitive intelligence/strategy to support other functions in the organization.

• Abide by and strictly enforce Amgen’s CI Legal and Ethical Guidelines with internal colleagues and agencies.

• Some travel (15-20%) required.

What we expect from you

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

Basic Qualifications

• Doctorate degree OR

• Master’s degree and 2 years of consulting and/or competitive intelligence experience OR

• Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of consulting and/or competitive intelligence experience OR

• Associate’s degree and 8 years of consulting and/or competitive intelligence experience OR

• High school diploma / GED and 10 years of consulting and/or competitive intelligence experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree (PhD/MS/MBA) with a focus on life sciences and business

• Experience with Lifescience consulting work in Obesity

• Familiarity with biopharma industry

• Relevant experience in Obesity via prior project work, disease area knowledge

• Prior experience in strategy/management consulting in the biopharma industry, roles of increasing responsibility accepted

• Demonstrated ability to think strategically and analyze data to support critical business decisions

• Excellent oral, written, and presentation skills—able to explain complex concepts clearly to a variety of audiences

• Evident project management skills—able to manage multiple, simultaneous projects and data sources

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.

Apply now and make a lasting impact with the Amgen team.

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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.

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