Senior Director, GDO Operational Business Management

Amgen

Senior Director overseeing GDO Operational Business Management at Amgen. Managing financial oversight and strategic resource allocation to ensure operational efficiency.

Posted 6/20/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $192,961 - $261,065 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Align operational plans with financial targets, prioritize GDO investments, and build business cases for technology and modernization initiatives.
Link GDO resources to budget, identify efficiencies, and drive awareness, allocation, and management of non-resource spend.
Translate resourcing data into actionable insights for senior leadership and business partners.
Partner with R&D Finance to ensure alignment on GDO budget understanding, targets, and resource planning.
Identify and quantify resource needs (staffing, technology, clinical trial costs) across the Amgen portfolio.
Manage staffing capacity across Amgen staff, FSPs, and contingent workers to support portfolio needs.
Deliver analyses and reports on resource demand/supply, highlighting variances and financial risks.
Lead, mentor, and develop a global team while collaborating with cross-functional and external stakeholders.
Foster accountability, innovation, and collaboration; build talent pipelines and develop critical skills.
Serve as GDO’s senior business owner, leading analyses to inform executive trade-off decisions on budget, cost, technology, and efficiency.
Partner with GDO leadership to build future resource capability plans.
Collaborate with GDO functions to meet evolving business needs, ensuring speed, quality, productivity, and efficiency.
Champion budget awareness and cost drivers; present analyses, scenarios, and recommendations to executive leadership.
Partner with Finance and R&D Strategy & Operations to develop and refine resource algorithms and adapt them in real time.
Drive continuous improvement and innovation in resource utilization, scenario modeling, and clinical trial technologies.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Doctorate degree and 5 years of Business Operations, Resource Planning, or Financial Management in Pharmaceutical R&D or Clinical Operations experience OR Master’s degree and 8 years of Business Operations, Resource Planning, or Financial Management in Pharmaceutical R&D or Clinical Operations experience OR Bachelor’s degree and 10 years of Business Operations, Resource Planning, or Financial Management in Pharmaceutical R&D or Clinical Operations experience
10+ years of experience in financial and/or resource management within clinical operations, including oversight of global teams and large-scale clinical trials.
Knowledge of emerging trends in advance that will enable significant agility and efficiency in business elements of clinical operations – quality, time and cost.
Global cross-functional leadership across clinical domains and geographies.
Expertise in managing timelines, vendor relations and project milestones.
Expertise in assessing clinical portfolio resource demand and managing changes/variance against resource/supply plans Portfolio-level budget/resource oversight and optimization.
Ability to analyze data for cost-saving opportunities and efficiency improvements.
Strategic thinking with the ability to advance the business through application of technology Capability-building and functional training strategy.
Strong interpersonal skills to work with vendors, partner with IT and senior leadership.
Establishment of external partnerships and thought leadership within the clinical operations and business domains.

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

Business OperationsResource PlanningFinancial ManagementClinical OperationsBudget OversightData AnalysisScenario ModelingClinical Trial ManagementCost-Saving AnalysisVendor Relations

Soft Skills

LeadershipMentoringCollaborationStrategic ThinkingInterpersonal SkillsAccountabilityInnovationCommunicationTeam DevelopmentAgility

Certifications

Doctorate DegreeMaster's DegreeBachelor's Degree