Obesity Intelligence & Analytics, Senior Director, Global Insights
On-siteThousand Oaks, California, United States
Job Summary
Lead the development and delivery of integrated commercial insights shaping global strategy for Amgen's obesity portfolio, including MariTide and pipeline assets. Serve as the primary insights partner to the Global Obesity Program, establishing an integrated agenda that connects primary market research, secondary analytics, forecasting, and competitive intelligence to inform therapeutic area and asset strategies. Design and execute primary market research across the product lifecycle, from early asset assessment to launch planning and lifecycle management, while partnering with Forecasting, Analytics, and Clinical Development teams to translate findings into actionable business recommendations. Act as an objective strategic thought partner, identifying emerging opportunities and risks to support senior leadership in making evidence-based decisions in a rapidly evolving market. Manage best-in-class research and consulting partners, lead direct reports, and ensure all projects comply with applicable policies and service-level expectations.
Required Qualifications
- Doctorate degree
- 5 years of experience in market research, commercial insights, analytics, competitive intelligence, forecasting, strategy, marketing, or a related discipline
- Master's degree
- 9 years of experience in market research, commercial insights, analytics, competitive intelligence, forecasting, strategy, marketing, or a related discipline
- Bachelor's degree
- 11 years of experience in market research, commercial insights, analytics, competitive intelligence, forecasting, strategy, marketing, or a related discipline
- 5 years of managerial experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience directing teams, major programs, complex projects, or the allocation of significant resources
Desired Qualifications
- Demonstrated ability to serve as a strategic advisor to senior commercial, medical, clinical, and cross-functional leaders
- Strong understanding of global drug development, commercialization, portfolio strategy, and the broader healthcare environment, including the perspectives of patients, healthcare professionals, payers, policymakers, and health systems
- Experience supporting early and late-stage assets, therapeutic area strategy, product launches, lifecycle planning, or portfolio investment decisions
- Deep experience leading primary market research and integrating research findings with secondary data, analytics, competitive intelligence, and forecasting
- Strong business acumen, strategic and critical thinking, and the ability to identify the implications of incomplete, complex, or conflicting information
- Ability to frame ambiguous business issues, establish clear hypotheses and learning priorities, and translate evidence into actionable strategic recommendations
- Demonstrated ability to influence decisions without direct authority and align stakeholders with different functional perspectives, priorities, and incentives
- Experience operating across global and local organizations and balancing the needs of therapeutic area, asset, functional, and geographic stakeholders
- Excellent executive communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to simplify complex concepts and clearly articulate implications, choices, risks, and recommendations
- Ability to manage multiple high-priority initiatives simultaneously while maintaining strategic focus, analytical rigor, and strong execution
- Demonstrated people leadership capabilities, including attracting, developing, coaching, and retaining high-performing talent
- Experience within obesity, cardiometabolic disease, or another complex and rapidly evolving therapeutic area
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