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Amgen

Associate Director, Media

Amgen

Associate Director Media managing U.S. commercial media strategy across various channels at Amgen.

Posted 5/16/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $150,769 - $203,981 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Support the execution of media strategy across Digital, Addressable, Video, TV, Search, and Point of Care channels for both HCP and DTC audiences, ensuring alignment to brand and enterprise objectives.
  • Serve as a media subject‑matter expert at the brand or portfolio level, advising stakeholders on channel roles, audience strategy, investment mix, and optimization across the customer journey.
  • Manage day‑to‑day media activation and operations, including trafficking, tagging, tracking, and quality control, ensuring accurate and timely execution across all assigned campaigns.
  • Apply and reinforce enterprise media platform and operational standards (e.g., DCM, Prisma, MediaTools, Guidelines), ensuring consistency, compliance, and data integrity in execution.
  • Partner closely with Analytics and Technology teams to implement measurement frameworks, tagging standards, and tracking methodologies that enable performance reporting and optimization.
  • Manage brand‑level agency relationships, setting clear expectations for execution quality, measurement rigor, and operational discipline across planning, buying, and reporting.
  • Support coordination with media platform partners, staying informed on platform capabilities, policy updates, and compliance considerations relevant to pharmaceutical marketing.
  • Enable effective cross‑functional collaboration with Brand, Medical, Corporate Communications, Legal, Technology, and Analytics teams to ensure seamless, compliant execution.
  • Identify and support test‑and‑learn initiatives, including piloting new channels, platforms, data solutions, or activation models.
  • Evaluate pilot results and performance insights, providing recommendations to inform enterprise‑level scaling decisions.
  • Drive continuous improvement by applying learnings from campaign performance, pilots, and evolving media best practices.
  • Ensure all media activity is executed in compliance with regulatory, privacy, and security requirements, escalating risks or issues as appropriate.
  • Travel: Up to 20% domestic travel annually to visit agency partners and Amgen headquarters (Thousand Oaks).

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Doctorate degree and 3 years of media and/or marketing experience OR Master’s degree and 5 years of media and/or marketing experience OR Bachelor’s degree and 7 years of media and/or marketing experience OR Associate’s degree and 12 years of media and/or marketing experience OR High school diploma / GED and 14 years of media and/or marketing experience
  • 7+ years of experience in paid media/marketing with a focus on planning, buying, execution and measurement
  • expert in media targeting and segmentation (consumer and HCP)
  • multi-channel media plan development
  • omnichannel orchestration and journey planning and execution
  • media measurement and optimization
  • agency leadership
  • Experienced leader of teams, both internal and external
  • Expertise in media planning and deliveries for traditional/linear/TV as well as digital channels and platforms
  • Strong analytical skills with an ability to uncover insights from performance/measurement tracking to drive action that increases brand impact.
  • Strong ability in both leading cross-functional teams, and in being a member of a cross-functional team
  • Skilled communication effectiveness: the ability to effectively engage, connect, and influence senior leadership and marketing organizations
  • Ability to translate and communicate complex information/strategies into simple and impactful carry out of plans
  • Desire and ability to find opportunities to work smarter and more efficiently, and implement with excellence
  • Ability to excel and navigate a fast-paced environment requiring excellent multi-tasking and instinctual decision-making skills
  • Comfortable with inspiring change and navigating internal and external impact accordingly.
  • Preferred experience working within media agencies

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • 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.

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Hard Skills & Tools
media strategymedia targetingmedia measurementmedia optimizationmulti-channel media planningomnichannel orchestrationcampaign executionperformance trackingdata solutionsagency leadership
Soft Skills
analytical skillscross-functional collaborationcommunication effectivenessleadershipdecision-makinginfluencing skillsproblem-solvingadaptabilityteam managementstrategic thinking