Director, Disease Area Strategy Lead – General Medicine

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee the continuous development and enhancement of the General Medicine therapeutic area strategy.

• Convert therapeutic area goals into disease and franchise priorities, portfolio implications, investment focuses, and strategic initiatives.

• Keep a proactive perspective on scientific advancements, standards of care, patient and customer needs, competitive landscape, and Amgen’s portfolio.

• Evaluate unique opportunities, investment focuses, and identify areas to deprioritize.

• Ensure that asset and program decisions align with the broader therapeutic area and franchise strategy.

• Collaborate with Business Development and Commercial BD on external innovation priorities and opportunity evaluations.

• Act as the Commercial strategic lead and representative for early pipeline initiatives and programs.

• Collaborate with Research, Development, Medical, and other teams to define patient populations, unmet needs, treatment context, differentiation requirements, product profiles, and evidence needs.

• Identify strategic and commercial inquiries early enough to impact research, development, and investment decisions.

• Evaluate scientific and technical success and formulate recommendations regarding progression, investment, partnerships, or discontinuation.

• Lead cross-functional teams in developing target product profiles and strategic development plans.

• Direct New Product Planning and initial commercial evaluations, including market and competitive analysis, patient segmentation, positioning, forecasting, and commercial opportunity analysis.

• Facilitate cross-functional opportunity evaluations across development stages to guide indication prioritization, sequencing, and expansion of patient impact.

• Collaborate with Research, Development, Medical, Competitive Intelligence, Business Analytics and Insights, Commercial, and other departments to support strategic decision-making.

• Synthesize scientific, clinical, customer, competitive, epidemiological, market research, real-world evidence, forecasting, and analytics insights.

• Formulate clear recommendations amidst uncertainty and influence effectively without formal authority.

⛳️ Requirements

• Doctorate degree and 4 years of marketing and/or commercial experience, OR Master’s degree and 7 years of marketing and/or commercial experience, OR Bachelor’s degree and 9 years of marketing and/or commercial experience.

• Background in the biopharmaceutical industry, life sciences strategy consulting, or a related sector.

• Proven experience in tackling complex strategic and commercial challenges.

• Familiarity with New Product Planning, pipeline commercial strategy, portfolio strategy, commercial development, strategy consulting, forecasting, market research, analytics, business development, or related fields.

• Experience in assessing early-stage assets, disease opportunities, or product concepts.

• Capability to integrate across various functions.

• Preferred therapeutic area experience in cardiovascular disease, bone health, or other General Medicine domains.

• Strong agility in scientific and clinical learning.

• Ability to engage credibly with scientific and clinical experts and translate technical data into strategic implications.

• Exceptional qualitative and quantitative strategic judgment.

• Proficient in structuring ambiguous issues, identifying critical decision assumptions, evaluating trade-offs, and formulating recommendations amidst uncertainty.

• Proven ability to lead through influence and establish trusted cross-functional partnerships.

• Advanced degree such as an MBA, PhD, PharmD, MD, MPH, or another relevant scientific or business discipline is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive employee benefits package.

• Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions.

• Group medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• Life and disability coverage.

• Flexible spending accounts.

• Discretionary annual bonus program.

• Stock-based long-term incentives.

• Award-winning time-off plans.

• Flexible work models where feasible.

• Opportunities for career development.

• Financial plans with options to save for retirement or other objectives.

• Emphasis on work/life balance.