BAI - Competitive Intelligence Manager, Cardiovascular

About the role

Join Amgens 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 lie within them, you'll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

Responsibilities

• Lead intelligence gathering activities for US and Global marketing teams to support multiple assets across Amgens cardiovascular portfolio.
• Be a strategic thought partner to key collaborators across disease area, brand, corporate, and other cross-functional teams supporting Amgens cardiovascular portfolio.
• Synthesize information from multiple sources to develop strategic insights and point of view on key competitive developments, implications to Amgen and actions Amgen must take.
• Work in a highly cross-functional manner and manage changing priorities across several key customers.
• Develop productive relationships with Global and Regional teams to define business problems and develop integrated analysis plans based on standard methodologies.
• Apply structured problem-solving to collect, analyze, and report CI, incorporating primary and secondary data sources to generate meaningful insights.
• Articulate and educate customers on the relevant impact of changing market dynamics to their business from a CI perspective.
• Organize and facilitate strategic exercises & red-team exercises to generate competitive insights and company plans.
• Coordinate and facilitate CI collection efforts at major medical conferences/congresses. Attend and support CI debrief activities at key congresses.
• Manage a network of primary data sources, including vendors and Amgen employees, to enable effective project delivery.
• Collaborate with fellow CI leads.
• Understand and synthesize CI research findings, maintaining high standards for accuracy, relevance, and quality in deliverables at all times and communicate level of evidence to key partners.
• Present on a regular basis in-depth analyses and summaries of results, interpreting and communicating results with recommendations to key stakeholders.
• Abide by and strictly enforce Amgens CI Legal and Ethical Guidelines with internal colleagues and agencies.

Qualifications

• Doctorate degree OR Masters degree and 2 years of consulting and/or competitive intelligence experience OR Bachelors degree and 4 years of consulting and/or competitive intelligence experience OR Associates degree and 8 years of consulting and/or competitive intelligence experience OR High school diploma / GED and 10 years of consulting and/or competitive intelligence experience.
• Advanced degree (PhD/MS/MBA) with a focus on life sciences and business.
• Familiarity with biopharma industry.
• Relevant experience in cardiovascular via prior project work, disease area knowledge.
• Prior experience in strategy/management consulting in the biopharma industry, roles of increasing responsibility accepted.
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically and analyze data to support critical business decisions.
• Excellent oral, written, and presentation skills, able to explain complex concepts clearly to a variety of audiences.
• Evident project management skills, able to manage multiple, simultaneous projects and data sources.
• Demonstrated analytical skills, understands the advantages and limits of different analytical approaches and studies.
• Strong understanding of the latest developments and trends in the oncology space, key competitive dynamics and unmet medical needs.