Director - Portfolio Operations Delivery

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. 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.

Director - Portfolio Operations Delivery

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role the Director, Portfolio Effectiveness and Optimization Results Delivery within the Customer Data & Analytics team is accountable for coordinating our delivery efforts across the internal and external team located in AIN and across India. In addition, the Director must manage relationships across a complex internal set of teams and functional groups.

This position reports to the Associate Vice President, Portfolio Effectiveness and Optimization and will be responsible for the following

Responsibilities

• Key Integrator: Act as main point of contact and representative of the Portfolio Effectiveness and Optimization team in India
• Talent Development: Hire, train, develop, and manage talent to meet organizational needs
• Global Collaboration: Act as the primary point of contact for PE&O senior leadership in the US and the offshore team in India, either through our Contract teams or direct AIN FTEs
• Operational Excellence and Delivery: Oversee end-to-end delivery of core data and analytics projects ensuring quality, scalability, and operational efficiency, while promoting standard processes in data governance and analytics methodologies
• Offshore Vendor Management: Manage offshore teams including CWs, maintaining quality of service and timely deliverables
• Innovation Leadership: Foster a culture of innovation, ensuring the India team remains at the forefront of emerging technologies and trends in analytics, AI
• Business Impact & Collaborator Management: Ensure analytics solutions drive tangible business outcomes and collaborate with global key collaborators to refine requirements, measure impact, and report progress
• Financial management: Oversee PE&O budget associated with offshore work in India, ensuring best negotiated rates and overall value

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients.

Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree and 4 years of statistics, operations research, mathematics, econometrics, business administration or a quantitative field experience OR
• Master’s degree and 14 to 16 years of statistics, operations research, mathematics, econometrics, business administration or a quantitative field experience OR
• Bachelor’s degree and 16 to 18 years of statistics, operations research, mathematics, econometrics, business administration or a quantitative field experience
• Managerial experience, directly handling people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs or directing the allocation of resources

Preferred Qualifications:

• Relevant data science certifications and Bio/Pharmaceutical industry experience
• 8+ years of innovative Data Science/Advanced Analytics leadership experience
• Experience in AI, Machine Learning, quantitative methods, multivariate statistics, predictive modelling and other analytics frameworks/techniques with 10+ years of experience delivering complex analytical projects
• Minimum 5 years of professional experience in Amazon Web Services: RedShift, S3, Athena, etc. and industry standard Data Warehousing technologies: Snowflake, Spark, Airflow, etc.
• Advanced proficiency and hands on coding experience in Python/R/Scala/Java or any other Object-Oriented Programming language; ETL using SQL/shell scripting
• Experience in successfully completing AI/ML based Next Best Action recommendation engine to optimize against desired objective function(s)
• Expertise in setting up and measuring randomized controlled trials, cohort studies, and matched, case-control studies
• Comprehensive understanding of the components of setting up data models and running scenario planning that match the business need
• Experience in setting up process for data ingestion, Quality Checks etc.
• Thorough understanding of tagging, Google Analytics, CRM, Content Management Systems, and other components of a Digital Marketing Ecosystem.
• Leadership experience in building and developing dedication teams, delivering results, and shaping the future
• Ability to foster and encourage an environment of openness and transparency in seeking diverse opinions and empower risk-taking in idea generation, idea incubation and/or experimentation
• The ideal candidate will lead the creation of an analytics-driven culture that drives top-line growth, controls costs, and takes timely corrective action to reduce risks that derail plans
• Ability to think strategically about issues impacting an entire portfolio of therapeutics across geographies and stages of development
• Experience managing multiple senior key collaborators, prioritizing across a multitude of responsibilities and allocating resources to drive maximum impact
• Partners with business leaders to deliver high-quality predictions that guide strategic decision making
• Oral, written and presentation skills to explain complex concepts and controversial findings clearly to a variety of audiences, including senior management
• Comfortable challenging the status quo and bringing forward innovative solutions
• Ability to identify areas for process and systems innovation and implement change that will enhance the overall effectiveness of the team
• Comfortable working through and leading large-scale global change management
• Understanding of technology platforms and ability to partner with IS/IT and business leaders

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.

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards Plans that are aligned with local industry standards.

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

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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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