Executive Director, Brand Lead – Nplate, Vectibix, and Lumakras

Career Category

Marketing

Job Description

Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients

At Amgen, if you feel like you are a 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-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.

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this leadership role, the Executive Director, Brand Lead will be accountable for driving strategy, performance, and innovation across Nplate®, Vectibix®, and Lumakras®.  Within the Lifecycle Value Lab construct, these brands have additional lifecycle management opportunities to be advanced through new indications, evidence generation, sales force engagement, and omnichannel experimentation, which will be key levers and deliverables of success in this leadership role. As a senior leader in the Lifecycle Value Lab, you will drive business performance while advancing LVL’s mission to generate scalable commercial insights. You will lead a highly matrixed, cross-functional team to identify growth opportunities, run disciplined experiments, and turn findings into sustained performance across traditional and emerging channels. Success in this role requires a strategic and adaptive leader who can balance and advance business performance and transformation, leveraging real-world experimentation to shape future commercial models across Amgen.The Executive Director will be a member of the Lifecycle Value Lab Leadership Team and will play a critical role in shaping the culture, operating model, and long-term evolution of this groundbreaking business unit.

Key Responsibilities include:

Portfolio Strategy & Business Performance

• Lead the overall commercial strategy, performance, and experimentation opportunities for Nplate, Vectibix, and Lumakras

• Advance integrated brand strategies that maximize patient impact throughout the lifecycle

• Establish portfolio priorities, performance objectives, and success metrics aligned with enterprise goals

• Continuously evaluate lifecycle and market dynamics, competitive trends, customer insights, and emerging opportunities to optimize performance

• Own portfolio forecasting, business planning, resource allocation, and investment decisions

Test-and-Learn Leadership & Commercial Innovation

• Champion LVL's purpose-built mission of leveraging agile operating models, modern technologies, and disciplined experimentation to accelerate product performance

• Build and Shepard portfolio-wide experimentation agenda designed to generate actionable insights and scalable commercial capabilities

• Foster a culture that embraces learning, encourages intelligent risk-taking, and values both successful outcomes and productive failures

• Evaluate new technologies, embrace, and become fluent in AI-enabled capabilities

• Ensure learnings are systematically captured, shared, and scaled across the broader USBO organization

Omnichannel & Field Force Excellence

• Lead an integrated promotional strategy across sales, digital, media, and emerging channels into a cohesive customer experience.

• Partner closely with Sales Leadership to ensure alignment between field execution and portfolio strategy.

• Optimize channel mix and engagement strategies through data-driven decision making and ongoing experimentation

Cross-Functional Enterprise Leadership

• Lead a highly integrated matrix team spanning Marketing, Sales, Medical, Market Access, Digital, Analytics, Patient Support, Corporate Affairs, Regulatory, Legal, and Operations

• Build strong partnerships across therapeutic areas and business units to maximize organizational learning and impact

• Support open debate and drive alignment with stakeholders around strategic priorities and resource decisions

• Serve as a visible champion for the Lifecycle Value Lab Business Unit across Amgen

Organizational Leadership & Talent Development

• Build, inspire, and develop a high-performing team committed to innovation, accountability, and executional excellence

• Create an inclusive environment where diverse perspectives are valued and individuals are empowered to contribute their best work

• Coach and develop future commercial leaders through stretch opportunities, experimentation, and continuous learning

• Lead through ambiguity and change while maintaining focus on business outcomes and patient impact

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The candidate we seek is an experienced leader with the following qualifications. They will also embody the Amgen leadership attributes which are:

• Inspire: Create a connected, inclusive, and inspiring work environment that empowers talent to thrive

• Accelerate: Enable speed that matches the urgency of patient needs by encouraging progress over perfection

• Integrate: Connect the dots to amplify the collective power of Amgen to drive results for patients, staff, and shareholders

• Adapt: Lead through change by adapting to an ever-changing environment and defining a clear course of action to deliver results

Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree and 6 years of marketing experience OR

• Master’s degree and 10 years of marketing experience OR

• Bachelor’s degree and 12 years of marketing experience AND

• 6 years of managerial experience directly managing people and/or leading teams, programs, or resource allocation

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to lead at scale, including managing leaders and complex, multi-brand portfolios, with an emphasis on field integration and pull through

• Experience shaping strategy and influencing senior stakeholders and executives

• Experience building and scaling modern marketing capabilities and innovation frameworks

• Experience driving data-driven decision-making and experimentation at scale

• Experience in lifecycle management and long-term asset optimization

• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-paced, and highly matrixed environments

• Executive communication, presence, and stakeholder management skills

What you can expect of us

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’ll support your journey every step of the way.The expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is $264,534 to $355,194. Actual salary will vary based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan, based on eligibility, comprising of health and welfare plans for staff and eligible dependents, financial plans with opportunities to save towards retirement or other goals, work/life balance, and career development opportunities that may include:

• Comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions, group medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts.

• A discretionary annual bonus program, or for field sales representatives, a sales-based incentive plan

• Stock-based long-term incentives

• Award-winning time-off plans and bi-annual company-wide shutdowns

• Flexible work models where possible. Refer to the Work Location Type in the job posting to see if this applies

As an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people around the world, Amgen fosters an inclusive environment of diverse, ethical, committed and highly accomplished people who respect each other and live the Amgen values to continue advancing science to serve patients. Together, we compete in the fight against serious disease. Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by applicable law. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided 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 accommodation.In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information. Amgen does not have an application deadline for this position; we will continue accepting applications until we receive a sufficient number or select a candidate for the position. Sponsorship for this role is not guaranteed.

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Salary Range

262,534.40USD -355,193.60 USD