Competitive Intelligence Senior Associate, Inflammation

About the role

The Competitive Intelligence Senior Associate, Inflammation, plays a crucial role in supporting multiple assets across Amgen's General Medicine and Inflammation Business Unit. This role reports directly to the Senior Manager, Competitive Intelligence.

Responsibilities

• 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 Product Teams to define business problems and develop coordinated analysis plans based on best practice methodologies.
• Apply structured problem solving to collect, analyze, and report CI, incorporating primary and secondary data sources to generate concrete insights.
• Articulate and educate customers on the relevant impact of changing market dynamics (i.e., reimbursement environment, pharmaceutical/biotechnology regulations, general environmental factors, etc.) to their business from a CI perspective.
• Organize and facilitate strategic exercises & competitive simulations to generate competitive insights and company plans.
• Coordinate and facilitate CI collection efforts at major medical conferences/congresses.
• Manage a network of primary data sources, including vendors and Amgen employees, to enable effective project implementation.
• Assess the reliability of CI research findings, maintaining high standards for accuracy, relevance, and quality in deliverables at all times and communicate level of evidence to partners.
• Present on a regular basis in-depth analyses and summaries of results, interpreting and communicating results with recommendations to brand/business partners.
• Educate the value and importance of CI to new employees (sales, RML, BAI, marketing) and maintain a strong position of coaching/promoting CI through daily efforts.
• Work to grow competitive intelligence/strategy to support other functions in the organization.
• Some travel (15-20%) may be required. All activities must abide by and strictly enforce Amgen’s CI Legal and Ethical Guidelines with internal team members and agencies.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree OR Bachelor’s degree and 2 years of consulting/competitive intelligence/biopharma experience OR Associate’s degree and 6 years of consulting/competitive intelligence/biopharma experience OR High school diploma / GED and 8 years of consulting/competitive intelligence/biopharma experience
• Prior competitive intelligence/biopharma experience in the commercial setting
• Business savvy skills
• Strong client service orientation
• Flexible and creative problem-solving skills
• High-energy, self-motivated, and organized
• Understanding of basic pharmaceutical/biotechnology marketing concepts
• Prior management consulting or pharmaceutical consulting experience
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically and analyze data to support key business decisions
• Excellent oral, written, and presentation skills—able to explain complex concepts clearly to a variety of audiences
• Project management skills—able to balance multiple, simultaneous projects and data sources
• Demonstrated analytical skills—understands the advantages and limits of different analytical approaches and studies
• Ability to work collaboratively in team-based environment; Ability to establish/maintain effective working relationships
• Strong understanding of the latest developments in the biopharmaceutical industry, unmet medical needs and opportunities in the assigned therapeutic area
• Broad, working knowledge of commonly used biopharmaceutical industry databases
• Understanding of at least one other functional area in BAI (market research, forecasting, marketing analysis)
• Advanced degree (PhD/PharmD/MBA/MS/MA) with either Life Science focus
• Experience in insights generation for the biopharmaceutical (or other healthcare) industries