Executive Director, Study Start-Up
Amgen
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Cambridge • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Lead the Study Start-Up (SSU) Hub as a global center of excellence, defining and implementing a unified SSU capability strategy that accelerates start-up timelines and ensures consistent quality across all programs and therapeutic areas.
- Shape a scalable operating model, influence portfolio and program planning through governance forums, and champion innovation, digital solutions, and continuous improvement to strengthen global study start-up performance.
- Define and govern the global SSU strategy, integrating sub-function approaches into a cohesive, scalable capability aligned with enterprise priorities.
- Serve as the global escalation point for start-up risks and issues, ensuring timely resolution and portfolio-level visibility.
- Build and lead global SSU leadership team, fostering accountability, talent development, and center-of-excellence.
- Oversee global study start-up planning and execution to consistently meet timeline, quality, and performance targets.
- Embed standardized metrics, KPIs, and performance management to drive transparency and improvement.
- Partner with senior leaders across Clinical Development, Operations, Regulatory, and Regions to align resources and enable trial success.
- Represent Amgen externally and internally, bringing industry insights into the organization and positioning the SSU Hub as a strategic enabler of clinical trial administration.
Requirements
- Degree educated
- Extensive experience in biotech or pharma, with deep expertise in clinical trial execution
- Strong leadership experience in global, cross-functional, and geographically diverse clinical teams, including managing leaders in complex organizations
- Demonstrated success driving cross-functional change and operational transformation
- Deep knowledge of end-to-end clinical development across early and late stages
- Experience building capabilities, including training and performance improvement
- Strong stakeholder management and senior-level influencing skills
- Strategic, enterprise-minded problem solver with a portfolio-level perspective
Benefits
- Clear and disciplined strategic vision for the future that leverages superior-quality products, operational excellence and top-shelf-talent
- Diverse and inclusive community of belonging, where teammates are empowered to bring ideas to the table and act
- Generous Total Rewards Plan comprising health, finance and wealth, work/life balance, and career benefits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
clinical trial executionclinical developmentperformance managementmetricsKPIsoperational transformationcapability buildingtraininggovernancerisk management
Soft Skills
leadershipstakeholder managementinfluencingaccountabilitytalent developmentstrategic problem solvingcross-functional collaborationinnovationcommunicationcontinuous improvement
Certifications
degree