Senior Manager, Precision Medicine Technology Portfolio
Amgen
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $156,528 - $189,422 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Provide strategic leadership and operational oversight for a portfolio of technology capabilities that enable Amgen’s Precision Medicine strategy.
- Partner deeply with Translational Sciences, Biospecimen Management, Clinical Operations, and multiple Technology teams to define future-state needs, shape the technology roadmap, and guide delivery of high-value solutions.
- Lead the coordination and ongoing refinement of the Precision Medicine technology portfolio - orchestrating alignment between business needs and technology capacity, including investment prioritization, resource planning, and performance measurement.
- Establish and manage PMed portfolio governance routines that enable clear decision-making and alignment across scientific and technology partners.
- Maintain a multi-year technology roadmap that reflects scientific strategy, operational needs, and emerging external trends.
- Translate scientific and translational use cases into actionable technology requirements, in partnership with Technology Business Analysts.
- Partner with scientific and operational groups to understand problems, find opportunities, and ensure business needs are articulated to enable technology solutions supporting end-to-end biospecimen, biomarker, and data workflows.
- Collaborate with technology architects and product teams to evaluate solutions, ensure interoperability, and support long-range architecture planning.
- Facilitate project intake, scoping, and prioritization in alignment with strategic objectives.
- Support delivery teams through requirements clarification, risk identification, and cross-functional alignment.
- Project management for high-value, business critical projects.
- Develop and maintain portfolio-level KPIs and reporting to track value, health, and delivery progress.
- Develop and maintain RACI to ensure effective partnerships across critical multi-functional activities.
- Drive communication and change management strategies to ensure adoption of new capabilities across scientific teams.
- Partner with stakeholders to assess readiness, support training, and ensure technologies integrate seamlessly into scientific workflows.
- Serve as a strategic connector across Precision Medicine, Translational Sciences, Clinical Operations, CfDA, Enterprise and R&D Technology, Data and Analytics, and Governance functions.
- Prepare and deliver concise, decision-ready materials for senior leadership engagement.
Requirements
- Doctorate degree and 2 years of relevant experience OR Master’s degree and 4 years of relevant experience OR Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of relevant experience OR Associate’s degree and 10 years of relevant experience OR High school diploma / GED and 12 years of relevant experience
- Experience working at the interface of science and technology within a biopharma or life sciences environment.
- Proven ability to lead portfolio management, strategic planning, or enterprise technology governance.
- Working knowledge of translational science, biospecimen lifecycle management, biomarker technologies, or related R&D domains.
- Understanding of data architectures, digital lab technologies, and informatics platforms supporting translational and clinical workflows.
- Strong critical thinking, systems thinking, and problem-solving capabilities.
- Ability to influence and collaborate effectively in a highly matrixed environment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience preparing executive-level materials.
- Demonstrated ability to inspire change, support adoption of new technologies, and manage competing priorities.
Benefits
- 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
- 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.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
portfolio managementstrategic planningenterprise technology governancetranslational sciencebiospecimen lifecycle managementbiomarker technologiesdata architecturesdigital lab technologiesinformatics platformsproject management
Soft skills
critical thinkingsystems thinkingproblem-solvinginfluencecollaborationwritten communicationverbal communicationchange managementprioritizationleadership
Certifications
Doctorate degreeMaster’s degreeBachelor’s degreeAssociate’s degreeHigh school diploma / GED