Director, Strategic Data Lead - Thousand Oaks CA

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic data partnership across priority commercial business areas, bringing a Commercial Data Strategy perspective to brand planning, business decision-making, and data-enabled opportunities.
• Translate brand plans, strategic imperatives, launch needs, access priorities, field priorities, and customer opportunities into practical data strategies and sourcing recommendations.
• Partner across Brand teams, BAI PODs, and cross-functional stakeholders to understand analytic frameworks, measurement needs, and business decisions that data must support.
• Frame data use cases from the customer and business angle, including the customer segment, behavior to influence, barrier to address, decision to be made, data needed, and expected business value.
• Develop a strong understanding of Amgen’s commercial data ecosystem, including current data assets, underused sources, known gaps, vendor landscape, customer journey needs, and external market signals.
• Identify and act on opportunities to better use data Amgen already purchases, reduce duplication, rationalize underused assets, and redirect spend toward higher-value data needs.
• Assess whether business needs can be met through existing data, enhanced use of current assets, or new external data sources.
• Develop and present data opportunity briefs and recommendations that clearly articulate the business question, customer use case, analytic need, data requirements, potential vendors, feasibility considerations, risks, and investment rationale.
• Establish and own the prioritization framework for data opportunities across competing business needs, balancing value, urgency, feasibility, strategic relevance, and investment trade-offs.
• Connect the right execution teams across Data Management, Data Science, DTI, Legal, Privacy, Compliance, Procurement, Finance, BAI PODs, and vendors to bring approved data strategies to life.
• Lead business input into renewal, sourcing, investment, and vendor negotiations by defining data usage, future need, duplication risk, strategic relevance, data rights, deliverables, and value trade-offs.
• Maintain visibility to upcoming brand priorities, launch milestones, market events, competitive dynamics, and data needs.
• Communicate data strategy, recommendations, trade-offs, and decision points clearly to senior stakeholders across the business teams.

Qualifications

• Doctorate degree and 4 years of data acquisition, data governance, commercial data operations, vendor management, commercial analytics, data strategy, or a related field experience OR Master’s degree and 8 years of data acquisition, data governance, commercial data operations, vendor management, commercial analytics, data strategy, or a related field experience OR Bachelor’s degree and 10 years of data acquisition, data governance, commercial data operations, vendor management, commercial analytics, data strategy, or a related field experience
• In addition to meeting at least one of the above requirements, you must have at least 4 years experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs, or directing the allocation or resources.
• Your managerial experience may run concurrently with the required technical experience referenced above