Executive Director, Global Marketing Lead, Sjogren's Disease

JOIN AMGEN’S MISSION OF SERVING PATIENTS

At Amgen, if you feel like you are a 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.

Live

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role, you will serve as the Executive Director, Global Marketing Lead (GML) for Sjogren’s Disease (SjD), overseeing the commercial and product strategy for assets in late-stage clinical development. The ED/GML for SjD is responsible for maximizing the value of the SjD assets and developing successful global brands by providing commercial guidance on development stage assets, developing, and implementing global launch strategies, optimizing the impact of marketing budgets, and managing the lifecycle of marketed products. 

Key Responsibilities include:

Global Marketing Leadership

• Lead the development and execution of launch and commercialization strategies, focusing on key global and priority markets.

• Build a comprehensive global brand strategy, ensuring strong alignment across cross-functional teams.

• Establish the target patient profile, utilizing deep market insights to bring the patient journey to life and inform brand positioning

• Drive the development of the global launch campaign, ensuring it is culturally relevant, distinctive, and enduring

• Lead the insight-driven development of branding, messaging, and market activation strategies to maximize launch impact and sustained commercial success.

• Identify strategic partnerships and collaborations that enhance the brand’s presence and reinforce its market position

Commercial Execution & Strategic Alignment

• Partner with Market Access & Pricing teams to optimize reimbursement strategies and support global market entry

• Foster ongoing insights development by collaborating internally and externally, ensuring data-driven decision-making for the brand

• Monitor and analyze market trends, competitive landscape, and industry developments to inform brand strategy adjustments

• Represent the company at industry conferences and build relationships with key opinion leaders and stakeholders

• Manage the global marketing budget, ensuring optimal resource allocation to maximize brand impact

Product Team Leadership

• Serve as the single leader for the cross-functional Product Team, responsible for defining the product strategy throughout its lifecycle

• Deliver an integrated product strategy that considers short- and long-term impacts, regional and country perspectives, and financial assumptions

• Ensure that strategy and business assumptions are executable and align with corporate priorities

• Develop and communicate strategic options to optimize trade-offs, balancing risk, and global value considerations

• Represent commercial interests in Research Project Teams and work closely with R&D, medical, and regulatory functions to ensure alignment

• Utilize Amgen’s decision-making framework to assess program risks and opportunities effectively

• Oversee the lifecycle management strategy, ensuring continued product differentiation, market expansion opportunities, and sustained value maximization

Win

What we expect of you

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

Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree & 6 years of global marketing experience OR

• Master’s degree & 10 years of global marketing experience OR

• Bachelor’s degree & 12 years of global marketing experience AND

• 6 years of managerial experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs or directing the allocation of resource

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in strategic marketing roles up to Head of Marketing / Portfolio Leadership in global or U.S. markets

• Deep understanding of autoimmune diseases or rare diseases, with experience in Sjogren’s Syndrome, Rheumatology, or related therapeutic areas being highly preferred

• Expertise in global brand launch and commercialization, particularly for pipeline products and late-stage assets

• Ability to lead and execute integrated, cross-functional commercialization strategies

• Experience leading high-performing global teams in a matrixed environment, ensuring strategic and executional alignment

• Analytical skills with the ability to synthesize market insights and make objective, data-driven decisions

• Expertise in market access, pricing, and reimbursement strategies across global markets.

• Ability to influence senior leadership and cross-functional teams, driving alignment and decision-making

• Communication and presentation skills, with the ability to translate complex strategies into actionable plans

• Passion for patient-centered innovation, ensuring the needs of people living with Sjogren’s Syndrome are at the heart of brand strategy

Thrive

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 annual base salary range for this opportunity in the U.S. is $297,139 to $340,252. 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:

• 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 and bi-annual company-wide shutdowns

• Flexible work models, including remote work arrangements, where possible

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.

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 does not have an application deadline for this position; we will continue accepting applications until we receive a sufficient number or select a candidate for the position.