Corporate Affairs Manager - Functional Excellence

Amgen is seeking a Corporate Affairs Manager - Functional Excellence to be based at our corporate campus located in Thousand Oaks, California. The Manager will report directly to the Executive Director Corporate Affairs - Corporate Reputation & Functional Excellence (CR & FE).

The Corporate Affairs Manager - Functional Excellence will help the Corporate Affairs team maximize its performance within the operating matrix through a careful stewardship of budget, 3rd party vendors, governance & SLAs. The Manager will also be critical in designing go-forward productivity strategies for Corporate Affairs; and will partner with the Content and Media Relations teams to optimize results via measurement.

Key responsibilities of the Corporate Affairs Manager - Functional Excellence will include:

• In partnership with the Executive Director of CR&FE and Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs, manages the quarterly budget process
• Identifies and uses measurement systems to: 1) Optimize the efficacy of Media and Content campaigns 2) Determine how 3rd party vendors performed against plan 3) Deliver productivity
• Manages 3rd Party contracts as they pertain to the Corporate Affairs central budget
• Understands the levers to pull to get the greatest value or to free up resources for higher priority products
• Partners with the Corporate Affairs LT to process map and develop governance and service level agreements as the team works in a newly-formed matrix operating model

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree

Or

Master's degree and 2 years of Corporate Communication and/or Corporate Affairs and/or Budget Management and/or Process Mapping experience

Or

Bachelor's degree and 4 years of Corporate Communication and/or Corporate Affairs and/or Budget Management and/or Process Mapping experience

Or

Associate's degree and 10 years of Corporate Communication and/or Corporate Affairs and/or Budget Management and/or Process Mapping experience

Or

High school diploma / GED and 12 years of Corporate Communication and/or Corporate Affairs and/or Budget Management and/or Process Mapping experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years of increasingly progressive experience in Corporate Communication or Corporate Affairs including specifically roles that required budget management or process mapping
• Ability to understand budgets and suggest appropriate tradeoffs that tie to CA strategy
• Demonstrates constant curiosity & applies systems thinking in recommending solutions
• Strong cross-functional leadership skills. Believes that sharing information is a strength
• Superb communication and presentation skills
• Process-minded and detail-oriented
• Understands how to effectively partner with commercial and regional teams to find the most effective processes to map the responsibilities and drive the team forward
• Establishes and maintains effective, collaborative work relationships both internally and externally
• Provides timely and professional support to all internal/external customers and vendors
• Prioritizes regular workload, special tasks and concurrent projects, allocating time and resources to ensure that work is completed accurately & efficiently within established time frame
• Effective presentation skills
• Strong business focus with demonstrated ability to act in partnership with management teams
• Takes calculated risks, makes strategic, results-oriented decisions, and accepts responsibility for the results (positive or negative)
• Acts with appropriate urgency to deliver timely results
• Uses data to identify opportunities, suggests solutions and resolves problems
• Listens and considers multiple viewpoints when determining enterprise-wide recommendations
• Produces unambiguous, comprehensive and accurate interpretations

Amgen is committed to unlocking the potential of biology for patients suffering from serious illnesses by discovering, developing, manufacturing and delivering innovative human therapeutics. This approach begins by using tools like advanced human genetics to unravel the complexities of disease and understand the fundamentals of human biology.

Amgen focuses on areas of high unmet medical need and leverages its expertise to strive for solutions that improve health outcomes and dramatically improve people's lives. A biotechnology pioneer since 1980, Amgen has grown to be one of the world's leading independent biotechnology companies, has reached millions of patients around the world and is developing a pipeline of medicines with breakaway potential.