About the Role
Amgen's shared mission to serve patients drives everything they do, making them a leading biotechnology company. They are global collaborators researching, manufacturing, and delivering innovative medicines to over 10 million patients worldwide. This role offers an opportunity to make a meaningful contribution and build a career.
Responsibilities
- Provide medical leadership across Amgen’s rare disease and inflammatory disease portfolio, acting as the local medical expert.
- Co-lead brand strategy with cross-functional partners.
- Adapt global and regional strategy to local priorities.
- Shape evidence generation and stakeholder engagement plans.
- Support high-quality execution across both inline and pipeline assets.
- Co-lead cross-functional brand strategy for designated products.
- Provide medical leadership to ensure global and regional strategy is translated effectively into local priorities and plans.
- Engage external experts, professional organisations, and other key stakeholders to inform strategy and strengthen scientific partnership.
- Partner with marketing, value and access, and other internal stakeholders to support lifecycle planning and patient access initiatives.
- Contribute to UK and Ireland affiliate strategy and tactical planning.
- Support evidence generation planning, including collaboration on company-sponsored studies and review of investigator-sponsored study proposals.
- Work with clinical operations to identify appropriate sites and investigators for future company-sponsored research.
- Lead and develop assigned team members through effective line management, including coaching, performance development, capability building, and oversight of resource planning.
- Deliver therapy area and product-specific medical training to internal stakeholders.
- Provide medical review and approval support for promotional and non-promotional materials.
Requirements
- Degree educated.
- Medical affairs experience, gained within pharmaceutical or biotechnology company.
- A genuine interest in people leadership is essential.
- Proven experience as a final ABPI signatory.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently while building strong cross-functional partnerships.
- Leverage strategic thinking, commercial acumen, agility, and effective communication to adapt quickly and deliver business objectives in a dynamic environment.
Skills
- People management and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programmes, or resources is desirable but not essential.
- Product/therapeutic area knowledge within rare diseases and/or inflammation experience is preferred, but not mandatory.
Location
- Cambridge
- Uxbridge
Work Type
- Home working in line with business needs
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Degree educated
Benefits
- Broad opportunities to develop your career and grow across a global organisation.
- An inclusive culture where colleagues are encouraged to contribute ideas, collaborate openly, and make an impact.
- A competitive total rewards package covering health, financial wellbeing, work-life balance, and career support.
About the Company
- Amgen is committed to unlocking the potential of biology for patients suffering from serious illnesses by discovering, developing, manufacturing and delivering innovative human therapeutics.
- This approach begins by using tools like advanced human genetics to unravel the complexities of disease and understand the fundamentals of human biology.
- Amgen focuses on areas of high unmet medical need and leverages its biologics manufacturing expertise to strive for solutions that improve health outcomes and dramatically improve people's lives.
- A biotechnology pioneer since 1980, Amgen has grown to be one of the world's leading independent biotechnology companies, has reached millions of patients around the world and is developing a pipeline of medicines with breakaway potential.
Equal Opportunity
- Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider you without regard to your race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.
- We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
- Please contact us to request an accommodation.
