Director, Commercial Drug Products & Cycle Management

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** Career Category
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** Job Description
**** 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.
** Director, Commercial Drug Products & Life Cycle Management
**** What you will do
** Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will be part of Amgen’s Process Development organization, Drug Product Technologies unit that continuously strives to be a technical leader in delivering superior, robust drug product manufacturing processes, high-quality CMC sections, and ensuring supply of commercial products. Drug Product Team leaders (DPTLs) play a central role in this process by serving as single point of accountability for individual drug product programs for technical activities specific to formulation, aseptic drug product process design and validation, integrated development of combination products, process improvements, life cycle changes, regulatory submissions, annual product reviews, etc.

DPTLs are part of an integrated operations team and lead a technical team responsible for delivering drug product process transfers, process optimization, process trouble shooting, timely closure of non-conformance investigations and change control assessments to ensure supply of commercial drug products. We are seeking a director to lead an impactful team of DPTLs responsible for all commercial drug product programs in our portfolio.
* Provide scientific, technical and managerial leadership in support of commercial drug product and life cycle management activities.
* Lead a team of highly skilled scientists and engineers with advanced degrees and training and lead the strategic direction of the group to ensure contract book deliverables for the portfolio, aware of industry trends, future requirements and feedback from key partners.
* Provide technical leadership to influence and implement strategy for commercial drug product programs, life-cycle management, global regulatory submissions, and variation management for biologics, biosimilars, and oral dosage forms.
* Maintain strong partnerships with product delivery team leaders in Operations, Therapeutic Area heads, all Process Development groups, Regulatory, Quality and with Clinical and Commercial manufacturing sites to positively influence Amgen practices and strategies to ensure success through the life cycle of current and future commercial products.
* Advance the organization’s competence on GMP compliance, current regulatory trends and expectations.
* Actively direct and lead team capacity/resources, budget targets, timelines.
* Talent management responsibilities including hiring, leadership development, mentoring, training, and compliance to standard operating procedures, regulatory requirements, and quality systems in a GMP environment.
* Recruit and retain technical staff that can deliver in a highly matrixed and dynamic environment.
* Up to 25% travel to domestic and international sites.
** What we expect of you
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