CD&A - Director Media Analytics

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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.

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.

What You Will Do

The Media Analytics team is part of the Customer Data & Analytics department and helps Amgen refine its media strategies, optimize audience targeting, and pressure test agency recommendations from an analytical standpoint, leveraging inputs from cross‑functional teams. This role requires a combination of media and therapeutic area knowledge, analytical competence, cross‑functional collaboration, and a proactive approach to ensure that our media initiatives align with our brand objectives and deliver optimal results.

You must be a strong voice in executive meetings with an ability to present complex analytical insights and recommendations in a concise and clear manner and influence partners into taking actions. As the team leader, you will help recruit, mentor, and develop a team of analytics experts (onshore & offshore), encouraging a culture of excellence and continuous learning. Flexible commuter role to Thousand Oaks, CA or Deerfield, IL office.

You will work on‑site a minimum of 2-3 days a week.

• Support the overall analytics strategy and governance, establishing and implementing robust HCP and DTC measurement frameworks, with KPIs and learning agendas tailored to brand goals.

• Connect execution to leading and lagging outcomes. Run monthly and quarterly readouts focused on driving continuous optimizations and transforming learnings into playbooks that drive execution excellence.

• Complete analytics and measurements across web, paid and owned media, marketing CRM, and other relevant digital channels, to generate insights on media execution, audience relevance and creative performance.

• Leverage clean room solutions to design and analyze brand‑specific audiences, and personas, that can enhance HCP and consumer targeting. Evaluate reach and quality by channel to minimize overlap and optimize frequency.

• Partner with Mar Sci Operations and Data engineering teams to deliver governed data models, automated pipelines, and executive‑ready dashboards.

• Support and participate in Amgen’s taxonomy governance helping drive best practices and consistency on our strategy to launch and track our marketing initiatives. Advocate for high standards in data quality, consent, and privacy.

• Drive cross‑functional alignment between marketing, analytics, and media strategy groups, translating analytics to actionable recommendations and influencing senior partners for data‑driven decisions.

• Apply pharma‑specific data (TRx, NBRx, claims, EHR, copay, hub data, etc.) to improve and contextualize digital insights.

What We Expect Of You

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The collaborative professional we seek is a leader with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications

• Doctorate degree and 4 years of analytics, operations or pharma experience

• OR Master’s degree and 8 years of analytics, operations or pharma experience

• OR Bachelor’s degree and 10 years of analytics, operations or pharma experience

• In addition to meeting at least one of the above requirements, you must have at least 4 years experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams,…