Executive Director, Study Start- Up - Thousand Oaks CA

Executive Director, Study Start-Up

Location: Thousand Oaks, California

Annual base salary range: $281,634 - $336,501

Responsibilities

• Shape the long‑term vision and strategy of the SSU Hub, ensuring alignment with CPSO, GDO, and enterprise priorities.
• Integrate and harmonize strategies from the six sub‑functions into a single global capability strategy, balancing standardization with local/regional adaptability.
• Act as the global escalation point for study start‑up risks and issues, ensuring timely resolution and portfolio‑level visibility.
• Embed within the industry – bringing outside ways of working and representing Amgen back into the industry.
• Build and develop a high‑performing global SSU leadership team (Directors, Sr Managers), creating a culture of accountability, innovation and operational excellence.
• Lead and mentor the global SSU Hub leadership team, ensuring robust succession planning, talent development, and organizational effectiveness.
• Drive consistent performance management, alignment, and calibration across sub‑functions to ensure equitable resourcing and delivery.
• Embed a center of excellence mindset, encouraging knowledge‑sharing and best practice adoption globally.
• Oversee start‑up planning and execution across all new studies globally, ensuring timelines and quality standards are consistently achieved.
• Partner with Clinical Program Strategy and Operations TA Heads to ensure seamless integration of start‑up into program execution.
• Monitor and report global SSU performance through clear metrics and KPIs, driving accountability for continuous improvement.
• Maintain and strengthen cross‑functional and global business relationships, representing the SSU Hub in governance forums and enterprise initiatives.
• Partner with senior leaders across Clinical Development, Operations, Regulatory, and Regions to ensure study start‑up strategy enables trial success, and resources required to execute are assigned and aligned to the SSU hub plan.
• Act as a visible change leader, promoting the SSU Hub’s role as a strategic enabler of faster, more predictable clinical trial execution and driving cross‑functional sponsorship.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree and 6 years of clinical execution experience OR
• Master’s degree and 10 years of clinical execution experience OR
• Bachelor’s degree and 12 years of clinical execution experience
• AND 6 years of managerial experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs or directing the allocation of resources.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 12+ years’ work experience in the life sciences industry, particularly focusing on clinical trial work, including 10+ years of biopharmaceutical clinical research experience at a biotech or pharmaceutical company.
• Experience engaging and working across clinical trial teams in multiple geographies to deliver global clinical trials.
• Experience driving and leading organizations through cross‑functional change initiatives such as identifying solutions to problems and innovating change strategies and structure to meet future needs.
• Experience leading cross‑functional / cross‑geography / cross‑trial teams, ensuring operational excellence and smooth decision‑making; ability to escalate and resolve challenges in alignment with global study strategy priorities.
• Extensive knowledge of the clinical and pharmaceutical drug development process, from early to late‑stage development with a deep understanding of relevant therapeutic areas to meet the highest scientific and regulatory standards.
• Adept at cross‑geography, cultural dynamics and running efficient global teams – ability to lead and motivate geographically dispersed teams in an inclusive manner.
• Experience assessing internal capabilities and identifying key capabilities to build training content, monitoring skill improvement, and driving competency builds across function and within teams.
• Demonstrates clear understanding of how to build collaborative networks across cross‑functional teams, senior management, and external stakeholders, internally and externally, to drive efficiency across processes.
• Big picture, proactive thinking with the ability to assess broad impacts across multiple product portfolios to identify innovative solutions.

Minimum Education Required: High School/GED

Benefits

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.

Affiliate Sponsor: Amgen

Job Category: Manufacturing

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