Senior Manager, Strategic Planning & Operations, Inflammation Research

Senior Manager, Strategic Planning & Operations, Inflammation Research

Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients

At Amgen, if you feel like you’re 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 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.

Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

Senior Manager, Strategic Planning & Operations, Inflammation Research

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will serve as a strategic partner to the VP Research and the Inflammation Leadership Team, translating TA strategy into measurable priorities, operating plans, and outcomes. You will facilitate strategic planning, organizational effectiveness, technology and AI-enabled initiatives, business operations, and executive communications across the Inflammation Therapeutic Area.

This role combines scientific insight, strategic thinking, operational leadership, and organizational influence to accelerate delivery of transformative medicines to patients.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and operational leadership

• Partner directly with the VP Research and Inflammation Leadership Team to define, execute, and track TA strategy, annual goals, long-range priorities, and operating mechanisms.

• Translate strategic priorities into measurable goals, action plans, milestones, KPIs, and accountability frameworks that improve decision-making and execution across the TA.

• Serve as a trusted advisor and thought partner on portfolio, organizational, capability, and investment decisions.

• Turn complex or unstructured business, scientific, and operational issues into clear action plans, cross-functional initiatives, and decision-ready deliverables.

• Operationalize portfolio governance and planning

• Enable effective portfolio governance by coor...