Executive Director, Brand Lead Nplate, Vectibix, and Lumakras

Join Amgen 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.

What you will do
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.

Key Responsibilities include:
Portfolio Strategy & Business Performance

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

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 shepherd 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

Masters degree and 10 years of marketing experience OR

Bachelors 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
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.
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