Global Insights Senior Manager - Oncology

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HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?

If you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. At Amgen, our shared mission—to serve patients—drives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies. We are global collaborators who achieve together—researching, manufacturing, and delivering ever-better products that reach over 10 million patients worldwide. It’s time for a career you can be proud of.

Global Insights Senior Manager - Oncology

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will be a strategic thought partner to brand and cross-functional teams, independently owning the integrated insight agenda for a pipeline asset, brand, or disease area. You will generate business-relevant insights that shape global commercialization planning, brand strategy, lifecycle management, and critical decision making.

Amgen is seeking a Senior Manager, Global Insights to support strategic insight generation across our global oncology portfolio. This role will flex across priority brands, pipeline assets, disease areas, and cross-portfolio initiatives based on evolving business needs, partnering closely with global marketing, global value and access, competitive intelligence, forecasting, analytics, and other cross-functional teams. The Senior Manager will lead and contribute to high-priority insight initiatives, connect learnings across the portfolio, and deliver strategic perspectives that inform commercialization planning, brand and disease-area strategy, lifecycle management, and critical business decisions.

Key job responsibilities include:

• Lead and contribute to the integrated insight agendas across priority brands, pipeline assets, disease areas, and cross-portfolio initiatives; identify high-value business questions and translate them into decision-focused insight plans.
• Synthesize information from a variety of sources, including market research, competitive intelligence, secondary data, advisory boards, and internal knowledge, to develop strategic insights that address business needs.
• Lead ad hoc strategic secondary analytics and ensure secondary data, analytics, and market evidence are incorporated with primary research and competitive intelligence into evidence-based insight narratives and strategic recommendations.
• Integrate insights and knowledge to develop business cases and facilitate workshops that support clinical development plans, lifecycle management, and other strategic decisions, including critical go/no-go decisions and senior leadership presentations.
• Plan, design, and lead primary market research with research agencies for assets across various phases of the product lifecycle to enable strategic decision making.
• Develop deep expertise across assigned oncology priorities, rapidly building understanding of the relevant markets, customers (HCP, patient and payer), disease areas, and business context to serve as a trusted insights partner, connecting human insights to brand strategy and customer experience.
• Partner with commercial leadership and cross-functional teams to define and prioritize objectives, evidence needs, budgets, and work plans; lead alignment on insight implications and recommended actions, and flex resources and insight generation toward evolving portfolio priorities.
• Clearly communicate insights and recommendations to a variety of audiences to influence brand decision-making, including senior leadership such as Therapeutic Area Heads and Disease Area Strategy Leads, and serve as a constructive devil’s advocate when needed.
• Connect insights and identify patterns across brands, disease areas, and markets, bringing forward transferable learnings, emerging opportunities, and implications that may not be visible within individual asset teams.
• Identify, evaluate, and manage relationships with best-in-class vendors; lead agency teams and direct allocation of project resources to deliver the highest-value work.
• Informally coach Managers and project teams in problem framing, research design, synthesis, and executive communication; promote and contribute to a culture of actively exchanging learnings and best practices across Global Insights; and contribute to the development of insight methods, marketing excellence, and AI-enabled insights capabilities.
• Maintain a high standard of rigor and attention to detail across insight generation and communication, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and quality of evidence and recommendations; ensure that routine and ad hoc projects are in compliance with all Amgen SOPs and meet service-level expectations for quality, timeliness, and budget.

What we expect of you

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

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree and 2 years of market research and/or analytics experience

Or

Master’s degree and 4 years of market research and/or analytics experience

Or

Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of market research and/or analytics experience

Or

Associate’s degree and 10 years of market research and/or analytics experience

Or

High school diploma / GED and 12 years of market research and/or analytics experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated exceptional business acumen, strategic and critical thinking skills, and ability to influence key decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to rapidly build expertise and trusted cross-functional relationships in new business areas, navigate ambiguity, and flex across multiple priorities, stakeholders, and workstreams in a dynamic environment.
• Proven ability to independently own an integrated insight agenda and translate deep human, market, and analytical insights into compelling brand narratives, customer experiences, and strategic recommendations.
• Experience integrating secondary analytics, market data, and primary research into a cohesive insight narrative that enables strategic decision making.
• Strong understanding of marketing and marketing strategy, including expertise in market research design, Jobs-to-Be-Done methodologies, identification of moments that matter, and brand-building.
• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, evolving environment, proactively reprioritizing insight plans as evidence, launch needs, and business decisions evolve.
• Demonstrated analytical rigor and attention to detail, with the ability to independently extract, analyze, treat, and consolidate data from sources with rigor and high accuracy and translate findings into actionable recommendations.
• Excellent oral, written, and presentation skills with ability to explain complex concepts clearly to a variety of audiences, including senior management.
• Demonstrated coaching and resource leadership, including the ability to develop others and lead agency or matrixed project teams.
• Strong knowledge of drug development, commercialization, and the broader healthcare industry, including patients, HCPs, and payers.
• Oncology experience preferred; global launch preparation, and/or late-stage pipeline commercialization is a plus.
• Experience leading primary research and managing multiple stakeholders, work plans, budgets, and projects in parallel.

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 expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is posted. Actual salary will vary based on several factors including but not limited to, relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.

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:

• A 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
• Flexible work models where possible. Refer to the Work Location Type in the job posting to see if this applies.

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

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Application deadline

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.

As an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people around the world, Amgen fosters an inclusive environment of 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. We make all employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

We provide reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities, consistent with legal requirements. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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