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Director, Strategic Data Lead

Job in Thousand Oaks, Ventura County, California, 91358, USA
Listing for: Amgen
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-08-05
Job specializations:
  • Business
    Data Analyst, Business Development
Job Description & How to Apply Below
** 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

** 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.

This is a business-facing, consultative role for a leader who understands how data supports commercial strategy, customer understanding, analytic frameworks, measurement, launch readiness, access, field execution, and brand performance. This role brings Commercial Data Strategy perspective into business, brand, and data planning discussions, shaping data strategy while partnering with the teams that generate insights, build solutions, govern data use, and execute.

You will define and pressure-test business questions, shape customer-back use cases, clarify data needs, determine whether existing data can be reused or enhanced, and align internal and external partners around scope, value, data rights, deliverables, and execution pathways.

You will also lead forward-looking assessment of a fast-changing external data landscape by tracking market trends, emerging providers, changing access models, and broader ecosystem shifts that could influence future strategy. You will connect these external signals to brand priorities, customer journeys, market dynamics, access considerations, competitive context, and strategic imperatives to inform practical data strategies and investment recommendations. As a strategic partner to the business, this role requires strong analytic framework understanding, executive presence, customer-back thinking, negotiation skills, and the ability to influence across a matrixed organization.

** What you will do*
* ** Responsibilities*
* + Lead strategic data partnership across priority commercial business areas, bringing a Commercial Data Strategy perspective to brand planning, business decision-making, and data-enabled 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 cross-functional 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 Amgen's 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 higher-value 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 trade-offs.

+ Connect the right execution teams across Data Management, Data…
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