Senior Program Manager

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. The Senior Program Manager partners closely with an R&D Quality Associate Vice President for Clinical & Research Quality and Senior Directors for R&D GxP Audit and Operational Excellence to drive execution of strategic priorities. This role integrates strategic planning, operational excellence, organizational effectiveness, communications, portfolio coordination and transformation to enable leadership focus on business priorities.

In close partnership with the RDQ Strategy & Performance and Operations (SPO) Director, this role helps translate enterprise and RDQ strategic priorities into coordinated operational execution across supported capabilities while ensuring consistent approaches, templates, governance, and business processes across the organization.

Key responsibilities include:

• Partner with capability leaders in Clinical & Research Quality, R&D GxP Audit and Operational Excellence to develop and execute annual strategic priorities, operating plans and measurable deliverables

• Coordinate execution of RDQ priorities across supported capabilities through standardized templates, governance, and business processes to ensure consistent delivery

• Monitor organizational objectives, milestones and dependencies

• Identify operational risks and recommend mitigation strategies

• Support the Operational Excellence Senior Director in centrally coordinating and tracking emerging and ongoing business initiatives and due diligence/mergers & acquisitions to enhance RDQ visibility and inform functional resource planning across RDQ

• Partner with capability leaders in Clinical & Research Quality, R&D GxP Audit and Operational Excellence to co-lead planning and execution of leadership team meetings and organizational forums (e.g. Therapeutic Area portfolio reviews, performance management reviews)

• Assist in development presentations for governance, dashboards, decision materials, and meeting content

• Drive follow-up of leadership decisions and action items

• Coordinate preparation of standardized business materials, executive updates, operating review content, and leadership communications using common RDQ templates and formats to promote consistency and efficiency

• Serve as the primary operational liaison between supported capability leadership and the Strategic Performance & Operations Director to coordinate information flow, deliverables, and business planning activities

• Coordinate key functional initiatives related to Clinical & Research Quality, R&D GxP…