Senior Director, GDO Operational Business Management

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

📋 Description

• Align operational strategies with financial objectives, prioritize GDO investments, and create business cases for technology and modernization projects.

• Connect GDO resources to budget allocations, identify efficiencies, and promote awareness, allocation, and management of non-resource expenditures.

• Convert resourcing data into actionable insights for senior leadership and business partners.

• Collaborate with R&D Finance to ensure a shared understanding of GDO budget, targets, and resource planning.

• Assess and quantify resource requirements (staffing, technology, clinical trial expenses) across the Amgen portfolio.

• Oversee staffing capacity among Amgen staff, FSPs, and contingent workers to address portfolio requirements.

• Provide analyses and reports on resource demand and supply, emphasizing variances and financial risks.

• Lead, mentor, and develop a global team while engaging with cross-functional and external stakeholders.

• Promote accountability, innovation, and collaboration; cultivate talent pipelines and enhance critical skills.

• Act as GDO’s senior business owner, conducting analyses to guide executive trade-off decisions regarding budget, costs, technology, and efficiency.

• Collaborate with GDO leadership to develop future resource capability plans.

• Work with GDO functions to adapt to changing business needs, ensuring speed, quality, productivity, and efficiency.

• Advocate for budget awareness and cost drivers; present analyses, scenarios, and recommendations to executive leadership.

• Collaborate with Finance and R&D Strategy & Operations to create and refine resource algorithms and adjust them in real-time.

• Propel continuous improvement and innovation in resource utilization, scenario modeling, and clinical trial technologies.

⛳️ Requirements

• Doctorate degree with 5 years of experience in Business Operations, Resource Planning, or Financial Management within Pharmaceutical R&D or Clinical Operations, OR a Master’s degree with 8 years of relevant experience, OR a Bachelor’s degree with 10 years of pertinent experience.

• Over 10 years of experience in financial and/or resource management within clinical operations, including oversight of global teams and large-scale clinical trials.

• Awareness of emerging trends that can significantly enhance agility and efficiency in clinical operations aspects – quality, time, and cost.

• Proven global cross-functional leadership across clinical domains and geographic regions.

• Proficiency in managing timelines, vendor relationships, and project milestones.

• Expertise in evaluating clinical portfolio resource demand and managing changes/variances against resource/supply plans, as well as portfolio-level budget/resource oversight and optimization.

• Capability to analyze data for identifying cost-saving opportunities and enhancing efficiency.

• Strategic mindset with the ability to advance the business through the application of technology and capability-building functional training strategies.

• Strong interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with vendors, partner with IT, and engage with senior leadership.

• Development of external partnerships and thought leadership within clinical operations and business domains.

🏝️ Benefits

• A comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions.

• Group medical, dental, and vision coverage.

• Life and disability insurance.

• 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.

• Flexible work models where possible.