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Medical Affairs

Job Description

HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?

If you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. At Amgen our shared mission—to serve patients—drives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies. We are global collaborators who achieve together—researching, manufacturing and delivering ever-better products that reach over 10 million patients worldwide. It’s time for a career you can be proud of. Join us.

GLOBAL MEDICAL DIRECTOR

LIVE

What you will do

In this vital role the Medical Director is the single point of medical accountability for strategy and external engagement globally. The Medical Director drives the development and execution of product medical strategies to increase Amgen's value proposition in alignment with product strategies across relevant geographies.

Key responsibilities:

• Contribute to the development and execution of the global medical affairs strategy for Obesity and related conditions
• Serve as the Medical Affairs Representative on various global strategic teams.
• Shape the global strategic direction for engagement with top global thought leaders  

• Drive engagement excellence with relevant Professional Societies across the globe, with a particular focus on those outside North America 

• Support strategic identification of the next generation of OLs, who will serve as champions to transform patient care and educate and nurture community level HCPs  

• Plan and implement strategic OL engagement at major global congresses   

• Joint owner/ strategic oversight of relationships and interactions with EU key policy groups in partnership with internal government affairs and policy colleagues 

• Joint liaison for external stakeholders who advise us on health technology, value and access in European and similar reimbursed market archetypes

• Partner with cross-functional colleagues including Commercial, Advocacy, Corporate Affairs and Development on strategy and execution of external engagement plan 
• Capture clinical/scientific insights across all key markets and translate them into concrete strategies.

• Maintain an active role within TA cross-functional meetings to ensure awareness of potential opportunities for external engagement

• Ensure conduct of medical activities in full compliance with all laws, regulations, and SOPs.

• Use global infrastructure for tracking, measuring, and evaluating performance and ensuring continuous performance improvement
• Contribute to Amgen’s mission of serving patients as the leader in the Obesity space   

Join of our team

You would be joining a large global team of scientists, clinicians and experts in the Obesity therapeutic area with a mission to serve our most vulnerable patients

WIN

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. What we seek in you as an experienced professional, are these qualifications and skills:

• Degree educated in relevant field (MD), PhD, or PharmD
• Extensive external medical engagement experience
• Experience in congress strategy and executive engagements
• Skilled at engagement and scientific exchange with external medical community
• Therapeutic area experience in diabetes/ obesity/ endocrinology
• Demonstrable ability to work in teams, cross-functionally and independently.
• Skilled at effectively presenting ideas and documenting complex medical/clinical concepts in both written and oral communication
• History of solving problems while exhibiting superior judgment and a balanced, realistic understanding of issues
• Network of medical, clinical contacts in product/therapeutic area

THRIVE

What you can expect of us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, so we work to care for our teammates’ professional and personal growth and well-being.

• Vast opportunities to learn and move up and across our global organization
• Diverse and inclusive community of belonging, where teammates are empowered to bring ideas to the table and act
• Generous Total Rewards Plan comprising health, finance and wealth, work/life balance, and career benefits

LOCATION Ability to work fully remote, or, if situated near an office, the option to work flexibly from home with occasional office presence at our Cambridge or Uxbridge next-generation workspace.

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for a career that defies imagination

In our quest to serve patients above all else, Amgen is the first to imagine, and the last to doubt. Join us.

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Equal Opportunity Statement

Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider you without regard to your race, colour, 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.

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