Clinical Imaging Director

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 lie within them, you'll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

Lets do this. Lets change the world. In this vital role you will help coordinate and lead the application of different imaging strategies to support our portfolio of innovative obesity, inflammation, cardiovascular and rare disease drug candidates. You will be expected to work with cross functional teams to design, execute and analyze imaging studies.

• Expand Amgen's end‑to‑end imaging process to all non‑oncology therapeutic areas and integrate into wider clinical development procedures; initial focus would be on obesity, inflammation, and rare diseases.
• Represent clinical imaging on process improvement initiatives.
• Standardize internal document templates and imaging vendor documentation (Charter, site manuals, etc.) for common imaging readouts. Establish new procedures and documentation for novel or updated imaging procedures/criteria.
• Serve as a SME while supporting strategic sourcing and vendor management teams in vendor capability/quality evaluations.
• Develop training materials for imaging methods and endpoints to educate team members on expected and appropriate imaging strategies in clinical trials.
• Work closely with precision medicine, statistics, clinical development, regulatory and clinical operation leads to formulate appropriate imaging biomarker strategies.
• Lead, design and implement multi‑modality imaging measures as endpoints for clinical studies in a variety of therapeutic areas.
• Contribute to clinical biomarkers and diagnostics strategy by evaluating novel imaging modalities, novel image analysis tools and artificial intelligence tools.

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

• Doctorate degree (PhD, Pharm
  
  D, or MD) and 5 years of biomedical or imaging‑related field experience; or
• Masters degree and 8 years of biomedical or imaging‑related field experience; or
• Bachelors degree and 10 years of biomedical or imaging‑related field experience.

• An advanced degree (MSc or Ph.D.) with 7+ years of experience in clinical imaging research within a pharmaceutical company.
• Proven track record of successfully leading and managing clinical trials with a deep understanding of the workflows that allow different teams (regulatory, operations, statistics, etc.) to successfully collect and analyze imaging data.
• Proven leadership experience in the utilization of molecular imaging as a quantitative biomarker in clinical trials.
• Experience with the utilization of clinical MR imaging in evaluation of clinical endpoints and investigation of suspected adverse events.
• Experience in the utilization of imaging in obesity and rare diseases.

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for your professional and personal growth and well‑being. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we support your journey every step of the way.

The expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is posted. Actual salary will vary based on several factors including but not limited to…