Global Trade Compliance Senior Manager

About the role

At Amgen, 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 a focus on four therapeutic areas—Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease—we reach millions of patients each year. 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.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a Senior Manager within Global Trade Compliance (GTC), part of Amgen's Worldwide Compliance & Business Ethics organization, leading key elements of Amgen's global trade compliance program.
• Provide strategic guidance across sanctions, export controls, restricted-party screening, clinical valuation, and other international trade compliance matters.
• Lead Amgen's enterprise framework for screening counterparties, transactions, and ownership structures under regulations administered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) 50% rule, the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) 50% rule, and other applicable global regulatory authorities.
• Act as the primary escalation point for high-risk screening alerts and complex ownership determinations, leading enhanced due diligence activities and preparing risk assessments and recommended operational actions.
• Support business operations worldwide in partnership with the legal team, business partners, and other cross-functional stakeholders.
• Lead the global clinical trial customs valuation program, including maintaining valuation methodologies, coordinating the annual true-up process, and ensuring compliance with applicable clinical customs valuation requirements.
• Combine technical trade expertise, investigative rigor, strategic thinking, data-driven decision making, and process innovation to shape the future of Amgen's Global Trade Compliance program through automation, artificial intelligence, advanced analytics, and digital technologies.
• Support additional trade compliance initiatives and special projects across the Global Trade Compliance organization as business priorities and global regulations evolve.
• Provide trade compliance support for strategic business initiatives, acquisitions, product launches, supply chain changes, and other enterprise projects.
• Lead multiple complex initiatives simultaneously in a dynamic global environment.
• Foster a culture of ethics, integrity, accountability, and continuous improvement throughout the organization.

Requirements

We seek a professional who combines deep trade compliance expertise, analytical rigor, strategic thinking, and sound judgment with the ability to operate effectively in a dynamic global environment.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree and 2 years of experience in compliance or screening operations, risk management, regulatory affairs, audit, law, or a related field
• Master's degree and 4 years of experience in compliance or screening operations, risk management, regulatory affairs, audit, law, or a related field
• Bachelor's degree and 6 years of experience in compliance or screening operations, risk management, regulatory affairs, audit, law, or a related field
• Associate's degree and 10 years of experience in compliance or screening operations, risk management, regulatory affairs, audit, law, or a related field

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience as a trade compliance subject matter expert at a multinational company; healthcare or life sciences experience preferred
• Strong knowledge of BIS & OFAC sanctions regulations and the 50 Percent Rule and other global restricted-party screening requirements
• Experience conducting ownership due diligence and ultimate beneficial ownership investigations, including analysis of complex direct and indirect ownership structures
• Proficiency with sanctions and trade compliance platforms such as Dow Jones, Descartes, MK Denial, Sayari, Kharon, SAP GTS, Oracle GTM, or comparable systems
• Experience conducting and managing investigations, incident management, and remediation plans
• Ability to synthesize, analyze, and communicate complex compliance data and concepts to diverse audiences
• Self-starter with creative, strategic thinking and the ability to drive issues to closure in a fast-paced environment
• Skilled in leveraging AI and advanced analytics for compliance monitoring, risk assessment, and data-driven decision making
• Strong critical thinking, writing, negotiation, presentation, project management, and organizational skills
• Ability to think strategically, translate strategy into action plans, prioritize competing demands, resolve conflict, meet deadlines, and operate independently
• Demonstrated ability to build effective relationships across departments and geographies, influence all levels of staff and management, and work successfully in a global matrix
• High ethical standards, professional integrity, maturity, flexibility, and sensitivity to diverse groups and perspectives

Benefits

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for your professional and personal growth and well-being. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we’ll support your journey every step of the way.

• A comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions, group medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts
• A discretionary annual bonus program, or for field sales representatives, a sales-based incentive plan
• Stock-based long-term incentives
• Award-winning time-off plans
• Flexible work models where possible

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.