Medical Asset Lead Director, Oncology

Amgen Inc.

Job Overview

Location

United States - Remote

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• 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. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline of medicines to treat cancer, heart disease, inflammatory conditions, rare diseases, and obesity and obesity-related conditions. 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.
• Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role, the Asset Lead Medical Director will be accountable for the development and execution of the global medical affairs strategy across the Hematology portfolio, including marketed products, lifecycle opportunities, and pipeline assets, ensuring alignment with enterprise, development, and commercial priorities. The Asset Lead Medical Director will lead the Global Medical Affairs Hematology Team with the objective of maximizing Amgen’s medical value proposition, advancing evidence generation, and enabling the successful development and lifecycle management of the hematology assets.
• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing global medical hematology team, fostering talent development, succession planning, and organizational effectiveness.
• Lead the cross-functional and cross-regional development and execution of the global medical affairs strategy for the assigned asset through the Global Medical Affairs Team.
• Serve as the senior Medical Affairs leader for hematology representative on relevant global strategic, governance, and cross-functional teams, shaping the long-term scientific, evidence-generation, and stakeholder engagement strategy across the therapeutic area.
• Support the development and delivery of the clinical development plan, integrated evidence generation plan, and lifecycle strategy for the assigned asset and/or follow-on indications.
• Actively provide medical and scientific insights to support development of the Target Product Profile and asset strategy.
• Capture clinical, scientific, patient, payer, and health system insights across key markets and translate them into concrete strategies and medical plans.
• Coordinate with regions to develop and lead the external stakeholder management plan, communication strategy, scientific platform, publication plan, and evidence generation plan.
• Develop robust external stakeholder engagement and insight-gathering approaches to strengthen understanding of unmet need and maximize the medical value of the asset.
• Facilitate scientific engagement with a broad range of external stakeholders, including opinion leaders, professional organizations, advocacy groups, payers, regulators, and other healthcare decision makers.
• Provide strategic direction for study design and execution for medical affairs studies and other global evidence-generation activities.
• Partner on evidence generation and ensure key regional and local needs are addressed.
• Align and implement medical communication strategies and related activities, including review, approval, and dissemination of medical communications as appropriate.
• Provide input into value dossiers and support activities that enable access to medicines through clear understanding and communication of treatment value.
• Determine resource and budget allocation necessary to deliver on medical strategies.
• Cultivate collaboration and coordination across medical functions, regions, and cross-functional partners.
• Facilitate and continue to build Amgen’s role as a science-based, patient-focused partner.
• Provide insights to support Amgen’s understanding of the safety and benefit/risk profile of the molecule.
• Lead or support advisory boards, congress activities, and other scientific meetings.
• Use global infrastructure for tracking, measuring, and evaluating performance and ensuring continuous performance improvement.
• Ensure all medical activities are conducted in full compliance with applicable laws, regulations, guidelines, and Amgen policies and procedures.

🎯 Requirements

• Doctorate degree and 4 years of medical affairs or clinical development experience in the relevant therapeutic area
• OR Master’s degree and 7 years of medical affairs or clinical development experience in the relevant therapeutic area
• OR Bachelor’s degree and 9 years of medical affairs or clinical development experience in the relevant therapeutic area

🏖️ Benefits

• 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

Skills & Technologies

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Remote

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About Amgen Inc.

Amgen Inc. is a global biotechnology company headquartered in Thousand Oaks, California. Founded in 1980, it discovers, develops, manufactures, and delivers human therapeutics targeting cancer, kidney disease, rheumatoid arthritis, bone disease, and other serious illnesses. Using advanced recombinant DNA and molecular biology techniques, Amgen produces biologic medicines such as Neulasta, Enbrel, and Prolia. The company operates R&D, manufacturing, and distribution facilities worldwide, investing heavily in genomic research to identify novel drug targets. Amgen also partners with academic institutions and smaller biotechs to expand its pipeline, aiming to transform breakthrough science into therapies that significantly improve patients’ lives.

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