Career Category: Sales & Marketing Operations
Job Description
Join Amgenโs Mission of Serving Patients. At Amgen, if you feel like youโre part of something bigger, itโs because you are. Our shared missionโto serve patients living with serious illnessesโdrives all that we do. Since 1980, weโve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the worldโs toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areasโOncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Diseaseโ 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 obesityโrelated conditions. As a member of the Amgen team, youโll 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.
Director, Strategic Data Lead
In this vital role, lead strategic data partnership across priority commercial business areas, translating brand priorities, customer needs, business questions, and analytic use cases into clear, actionable data strategies and sourcing recommendations. You will work closely with Brand teams, BAI PODs, Access, Field Effectiveness, Data Science, Data Management, Legal, Privacy, Compliance, Procurement, and external data partners to ensure Amgen is using the right data, using existing data more effectively, and identifying new data opportunities that can improve decision-making and business impact.
What you will do
- Lead strategic data partnership across priority commercial business areas, bringing a Commercial Data Strategy perspective to brand planning, business decisionโmaking, and dataโenabled opportunities.
- Translate brand plans, strategic imperatives, launch needs, access priorities, field priorities, and customer opportunities into practical data strategies and sourcing recommendations.
- Partner across Brand teams, BAI PODs, and crossโfunctional stakeholders to understand analytic frameworks, measurement needs, and business decisions that data must support.
- Frame data use cases from the customer and business angle, including the customer segment, behavior to influence, barrier to address, decision to be made, data needed, and expected business value.
- Develop a strong understanding of Amgenโs commercial data ecosystem, including current data assets, underused sources, known gaps, vendor landscape, customer journey needs, and external market signals.
- Identify and act on opportunities to better use data Amgen already purchases, reduce duplication, rationalize underused assets, and redirect spend toward higherโvalue data needs.
- Assess whether business needs can be met through existing data, enhanced use of current assets, or new external data sources.
- Develop and present data opportunity briefs and recommendations that clearly articulate the business question, customer use case, analytic need, data requirements, potential vendors, feasibility considerations, risks, and investment rationale.
- Establish and own the prioritization framework for data opportunities across competing business needs, balancing value, urgency, feasibility, strategic relevance, and investment tradeโoffs.
- Connect the right execution teams across Data Management, Data Science, DTI, Legal, Privacy, Compliance, Procurement, Finance, BAI PODs, and vendors to bring approved data strategies to life.
- Lead business input into renewal, sourcing, investment, and vendor negotiations by defining data usage, future need, duplication risk, strategic relevance, data rights, deliverables, and value tradeโoffs.
- Maintain visibility to upcoming brand priorities, launch milestones, market events, competitive dynamics, and data needs.
- Communicate data strategy, recommendations, tradeโoffs, and decision points clearly to senior stakeholders across the business teams.
What we expect of you
The dynamic professional we seek is someone with these qualifications.
Basic Qualifications
- Doctorate degree and 4years of experience in data acquisition, data governance, commercial data operations, vendor management, commercial analytics, data strategy, or a related field ORMasterโs degree and 8years of experience in the same areas ORBachelorโs degree and 10years of experience in the same areas.
- In addition to meeting at least one of the above requirements, you must have at least 4years of experience directly managing people and/or leading teams, projects, programs, or directing the allocation of resources. Your managerial experience may run concurrently with the required technical experience.
Preferred Qualifications / Competencies
- Strong understanding of commercial analytic frameworks and how data supports segmentation, targeting, measurement, launch readiness, market access, customer journey analysis, field execution, brand performance, and KPI development.
- Ability to think customerโback and define data use cases based on customer needs, desired behaviors, barriers, leverage points, decision needs, and expected business value.
- Strong business acumen with the ability to connect brand strategy, customer insights, market dynamics, analytic needs, and external data opportunities.
- Experience partnering with Analytics, Market Research, Data Science, or Commercial teams to support insights, measurement, research, and business decisionโmaking.
- Understanding of pharmaceutical and healthcare data ecosystems, including sales, claims, patient, provider, payer, plan, specialty pharmacy, lab, EHR/EMR, digital, media, access, and realโworld data.
- Ability to identify data reuse opportunities, duplication risks, underused assets, and data investment tradeโoffs across vendors and business needs.
- Experience shaping data opportunity briefs, business cases, useโcase summaries, or strategic recommendations for senior leadership decisionโmaking.
- Ability to influence decisions and drive alignment without direct authority across senior stakeholders and crossโfunctional teams.
- Strong negotiation, diplomacy, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to align internal partners and vendors around business needs, deliverables, value, and execution tradeโoffs.
- Experience partnering with Legal, Privacy, Compliance, Procurement, Finance, DTI, Data Management, and vendor partners to support responsible, scalable, and compliant use of data.
- Strategic mindset with the ability to balance forwardโlooking opportunity identification with practical execution through established owners and operating models.
- Strong facilitation, prioritization, problemโsolving, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to operate as a business thought partner and internal consultant, not only as a data acquisition or vendor management resource.
Benefits
Amgen offers a comprehensive employee benefits package, a discretionary annual bonus program, stockโbased longโterm incentives, awardโwinning timeโoff plans, flexible work models where possible, and opportunities for career development.
Salary Range
199,064.90USDโ269,323.10USD
Equal Employment Opportunity
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.