Vice President, Change Execution Excellence

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.

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world.At Amgen, we are committed to unlocking the power of science to improve lives. The Vice President of Change Execution Excellence will establish and lead a new capability designed to accelerate Amgen’s most critical change initiatives. This leader will focus on embedding execution discipline specifically for transformational change programs, ensuring these initiatives deliver measurable business impact. The role will drive integration across initiatives and serve as the steward of outcome tracking across the change portfolio.

Responsibilities include:

• Serve as Amgen’s Change Execution Excellence Capability Lead, focused on project management integration and execution discipline for change initiatives

• Build and scale a fit-for-purpose project management capability that supports RDO-led initiatives and can be leveraged more broadly for enterprise change initiatives

• Lead a team of approximately 10 project managers across levels of experience, responsible for supporting and driving delivery of critical change programs

• Develop and maintain a project management integration roadmap for change initiatives, ensuring alignment across technology, workforce, operating model, and change management

• Proactively manage interdependencies across RDO and enterprise change initiatives to maximize efficiency, minimize duplication, and enhance outcomes

• Drive adoption of consistent governance and execution approaches to improve delivery of change initiatives

• Act as portfolio steward for realization/outcome measures: partner with transformation leads to integrating value capture measures (defined within Capabilities); monitor and track actuals across the change portfolio; provide inputs into Sensing, Amgen’s internal metrics, and intelligence platform

Success Measures:

• Reduced time-to-value and improved execution discipline for change initiatives

• Demonstrated adoption and credibility of the Change Execution Excellence capability as a trusted resource for change programs

• Increased integration of technology, workforce, operating model, and change management within change execution

• Measurable improvement in realization and outcome tracking across the change portfolio

• Enhanced visibility of change portfolio performance through reliable inputs into Sensing.

• Successful execution of prioritized process mapping initiatives by 2026

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 and 8 years of Life Sciences, Business, or related experience OR

• Master’s degree and 10 years of Life Sciences, Business, or related experience OR

• Bachelor’s degree and 12 years of Life Sciences, Business, or related experience AND

• 8 years of direct managerial experience. Previous experience managing other managers

Preferred Qualifications:

• 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in program management, enterprise transformation, or operational excellence within large, complex organizations

• Demonstrated success in building and scaling capabilities to support complex change initiatives.

• Understanding of interdependence across technology, workforce, operating model, and change management

• Experience with value capture, outcome tracking, and portfolio-level stewardship of change measures

• Exceptional leadership skills with the ability to influence, align, and mobilize across all levels of the organization

• Executive presence with proven ability to engage senior leaders and drive enterprise-wide alignment

• Advanced degree in business, organizational management, or a related field

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 VP level opportunities in the US is $315,000 to $525,000. 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. 

Sponsorship for this role is not guaranteed.