Competitive Intelligence Manager – Hybrid – Thousand Oaks, CA

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

• Lead intelligence gathering activities for R&D stakeholders and leadership teams to support multiple assets in Amgen’s pipeline.
• Develop and present key Competitive Intelligence deliverables for multiple internal business partners, primarily R&D, Commercial, and Legal stakeholders.
• Leverage various secondary research resources to generate competitive insights including but not limited to clinicaltrials.gov, TrialTrove, BioMedTracker, Cortellis Intelligence, Evaluate Pharma, Datamonitor, IPD analytics, PharmaProjects, Drugs@FDA, PubMed, AlphaSense, Factset, and USPTO patents.
• Work with R&D leads to generate Key Intelligence Topics and Key Intelligence Questions (KITs & KIQs) and conduct hypothesis driven primary and secondary competitive intelligence research.
• Synthesize insights from scientific and medical research conferences by gathering clinical and scientific data, interact with relevant sources listed previously and develop detailed reports to debrief internal teams.
• Manage multiple CI vendors, to conduct hypothesis driven primary CI research through interactions with Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs), Clinical trial investigators, Medical Science Liaisons, Academic and Community Physicians, Field force, Investor relations and identify other relevant sources as applicable to the project.

Qualifications

• Doctorate degree OR Master’s degree and 2 years of Competitive Intelligence, Business Development, Tech Transfer, Equity Research, Consulting, or Patent Law experience OR Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of Competitive Intelligence, Business Development, Tech Transfer, Equity Research, Consulting, or Patent Law experience OR Associate’s degree and 8 years of Competitive Intelligence, Business Development, Tech Transfer, Equity Research, Consulting, or Patent Law experience OR High school diploma / GED and 10 years of Competitive Intelligence, Business Development, Tech Transfer, Equity Research, Consulting, or Patent Law experience.
• Strong communicator and proven ability to generate succinct insights from complex scientific data to diverse stakeholders of various functions and levels.
• Experience with early pipeline development and assessments in prior roles such as BD CI, R&D CI, BD, equity research, tech transfer, patent law or similar is strongly preferred.
• Knowledge of basic principles of functions across pharmaceutical value chain, including drug discovery & development, clinical trials, FDA / EMA regulation, and drug commercialization.
• Proven track record, managing multiple, simultaneous projects and experience working with proprietary technical, regulatory and financial data sources (i.e. TrialTrove, Cortellis Intelligence, Evaluate Pharma, PubMed, AlphaSense, USPTO etc.).
• Ability to analyze ongoing clinical trials and global regulatory considerations to develop scenarios for competitor launch timing in US, EU, Japan, China and other key markets.
• Understand pharmaceutical forecasting models, and be able provide competitor focused assumptions to estimate market share, in support of long-range planning scenarios, go/no go decisions and opportunity assessment for business development activities.

Pay

The expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is posted. Actual salary will vary based on several factors including but not limited to, relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.

Schedule

This position requires 2/3 times a week in Thousand Oaks.