Director, Quality Digital Strategy

HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?

If you feel like youre part of something bigger, its because you are. At Amgen, our shared missionto serve patientsdrives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the worlds leading biotechnology companies. We are global collaborators who achieve togetherresearching, manufacturing, and delivering ever-better products that reach over 10 million patients worldwide. Its time for a career you can be proud of.

Live

What you will do

Lets do this. Lets change the world.

The Quality Digital Strategy Director will be a pivotal member and leader of Amgens comprehensive Quality Transformation program enabling Amgen to continue delivering on its mission to serve patients amidst an increasingly dynamic and competitive landscape. Amgen is looking for an experienced professional to direct and support a cross-functional program team through strong team leadership, collaboration, communication, and influencing skills. The digital transformation will be multi-faceted; successful deployment will include end-to-end process simplification and the development of a digital ecosystem to seamlessly integrate data flows across the enterprise.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a cross-functional team in advancing the Amgen Qualitys digitals transformation strategy, including collaboration with functional leadership, integration of processes, and optimization of development and data science resources

• Manage portfolio governance including driving decision making, prioritization, and issue escalation to ensure timely mitigation and resolution

• Directly manage a small team of Product Owners to shape and drive the execution of key development efforts through Agile practices

• Develop, maintain, and cultivate digital and business capability and technology roadmap in partnership with IS / DTI colleagues

• Conduct rapid assessment of opportunities to quickly test hypotheses, quantify value, refine scope, and facilitate development and endorsement of robust business cases

• Responsible for program budget, funding, resources, financial and operational business outcomes (KPIs) and commitments

• Orchestrate comprehensive change management plan including communications, staff engagement, training, and sponsorship

• Monitor and evaluate external trends and cross-industry benchmarks to help shape ongoing transformation and technology roadmap

Win

What we expect of you

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

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree and 4 years of engineering, business management and/or life sciences experience

Or

Masters degree and 8 years of engineering, business management and/or life sciences experience

Or

Bachelors degree and 10 years of engineering, business management and/or life sciences experience

And

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

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters degree in engineering, business management and/or life science

• 8 years of engineering, business management and/or life sciences experience

• Strong quantitative and qualitative analytic skills, specifically financial analysis, business case development, portfolio planning, and resource & budget management

• Demonstrated ability to lead and contribute to large, digital transformation programs and collaborate seamlessly with cross-functional teams

• Substantial experience in data science, data-driven application development, and application lifecycle management

• Knowledge of Agile development methodologies and experience as a product owner and/or scrum master

• Understanding of drug and combination product development, manufacturing, and distribution

• Experience in post-market surveillance, complaint investigations, combination product and device regulations

• Ability to communicate and collaborate across all areas of Amgen, to include Operations, R&D, and Commercial partners

• Consistently delivers on-time, and high-quality results aligned with ambition and business commitments

• Strong executive presence and communication skills, ability to lead governance and drive decision making using DAI principles

• Able to craft a vision / ambition for the future and systematically bring to life through relentless execution, prioritization, and change management

• Robust and pragmatic problem-solving approach with ability to bring structure to vaguely defined problems

• Champion of Amgen values and leadership attributes; patient-centric approach

Thrive

What you can expect of us

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

• Vast opportunities to learn and move up and across our global organization

• 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

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 demonstrates its expertise to strive for solutions that improve health outcomes and dramatically improve peoples lives. A biotechnology pioneer since 1980, Amgen has grown to be one of the worlds leading independent biotechnology companies, has reached millions of patients around the world and is developing a pipeline of medicines with breakaway potential.

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for a career that defies imagination

In our quest to serve patients above all else, Amgen is the first to imagine, and the last to doubt. Join us.

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If you're seeking a career where you can truly make a difference in the lives of others, a career where you can work at the absolute forefront of biotechnology with the top minds in the field, you'll find it at Amgen.

Amgen, a biotechnology pioneer, discovers, develops and delivers innovative human therapeutics. Our medicines have helped millions of patients in the fight against cancer, kidney disease, rheumatoid arthritis and other serious illnesses.

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 but compete intensely to win. Together, we live the Amgen values as we continue advancing science to serve patients.

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, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Amgen requires all staff in the United States, Puerto Rico and Canada to be vaccinated from COVID 19 as a condition of employment. In accordance with applicable law, Amgen will provide reasonable accommodations to staff members who qualify on the basis of a medical reason or a sincerely held religious belief, practice, or observance. Such accommodation may not pose an undue hardship to Amgen, its operations, or its staff.