Associate Director Strategic Planning and Operations

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.

Global Patient Safety is a patient-first organization advancing how safety is monitored, understood, and acted upon through data, digital innovation, and emerging technologies. As a trusted enterprise partner, GPS influences critical business decisions by integrating patient insights, scientific expertise, and regulatory excellence. This is an opportunity to join a high-performing team shaping the future of modern patient safety and its impact on patients worldwide.

The Strategic Planning and Operations Associate Director serves as a senior partner to the Vice President of Global Patient Safety and the GPS Executive Leadership Team. Acting as a trusted advisor to the VP, this role connects priorities, initiatives, and decisions across the organization to ensure alignment with broader Amgen priorities. This role operates at the center of GPS leadership, translating strategy into clear priorities, operating plans, leadership routines, executive communications, and measurable outcomes.

The Associate Director leads a team of Strategic Planning and Operations colleagues who support leaders and teams across GPS, ensuring consistent, high-quality planning and operational support across the department. This role strengthens the GPS operating rhythm, drives accountability across leadership priorities, enables effective decision-making, and proactively identifies interdependencies, risks, and opportunities before they impact execution.

This is a highly visible role for an enterprise-minded operator who can partner closely with the VP of Global Patient Safety and help the Executive Leadership Team convert priorities into disciplined execution. The role requires strong business judgment, executive presence, proactive ownership, and the ability to operate effectively in ambiguity. The successful candidate will anticipate leadership needs, synthesize diverse inputs into clear deliverables, bring forward recommendations, and independently advance priorities with minimal direction.

Key Responsiblities:

• Serve as a thought partner to the VP of Global Patient Safety and GPS Executive Leadership Team, helping shape priorities, identify risks and opportunities, and translate strategy into action.
• Lead and develop Strategic Planning and Operations colleagues who support leaders and teams across GPS, ensuring aligned priorities, consistent practices, and strong execution across the SPO community.
• Lead the GPS operating rhythm, including leadership team meetings, business reviews, goal tracking, decision forums, and follow-up mechanisms.
• Prepare senior leadership discussions by framing objectives, key decisions, tradeoffs, risks, stakeholder considerations, and recommended next steps.
• Develop executive-level narratives, talking points, presentations, and communications that clearly articulate GPS priorities, progress, decisions, and implications.
• Drive accountability across GPS by clarifying owners, milestones, dependencies, decisions, and escalation needs.
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