Senior Director Database Design & Acquisition

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Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients

At Amgen, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do.

Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas –Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease– we reach millions of patients each year. As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives.

Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

Sr Dir - Database Design & Acquisition

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will provide enterprise leadership for database design and data acquisition capabilities across Amgen’s clinical portfolio, ensuring scalable, high-quality, and efficient delivery of clinical database builds and integrated data acquisition solutions that accelerate study execution and improve patient outcomes.

• Provide global leadership for the Database Design & Acquisition (DDA) function, overseeing therapeutic area leads, database design leads, and data acquisition leads across the portfolio.
• Define and execute the enterprise strategy for database design and data acquisition, ensuring timely, high-quality builds with minimized split go-lives and reduced mid-study changes.
• Partner with Data Management and Clinical Systems leadership to align database design, acquisition standards, and integration capabilities with enterprise platforms and long-term technology strategy.
• Establish and monitor performance metrics including cycle times, edit check efficiency, integration quality, and delivery performance to drive operational excellence and accountability.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives across DDA, driving process optimization, automation, innovation, and adoption of modern database design and integration capabilities.
• Optimize the global sourcing and delivery model across internal teams, FSP partners, and global locations to ensure scalable, cost-effective, and high-performing operations.
• Serve as the senior escalation point for complex database build, integration, and supplier challenges, ensuring study milestones and portfolio delivery remain on track.
• Represent the DDA function in executive forums and external partnerships, positioning Amgen’s database design and acquisition capabilities as industry leading.

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The candidate we seek is an individual with the following qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree & 12 years of clinical execution experience or equivalent OR
• Master’s degree & 18 years of clinical execution experience or equivalent OR
• Bachelor’s degree & 20 years of clinical execution experience or equivalent OR
• In addition to meeting at least one of the above requirements, you must have a minimum of 5 years' experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs, or directing the allocation of resources. Your managerial experience may run concurrently with the required technical experience referenced above

Preferred Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree and 10 years of clinical execution experience OR
• Master’s degree and 15 years of clinical execution experience OR
• Bachelor’s degree and 18 years of clinical execution experience
• In addition to meeting at least one of the above requirements, you must have at least 4 years’ experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs, or directing the allocation of resources. Your managerial experience may run concurrently with the required technical experience referenced above

What you can expect of us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for your professional and personal growth and well-being. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we’ll support your journey every step of the way.

The annual base salary range for this opportunity in the U.S. is [Talent Acquisition to input market pay range].

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan, based on eligibility, comprising of health and welfare plans for staff and eligible dependents, financial plans with opportunities to save towards retirement or other goals, work/life balance, and career development opportunities that may include:

• Comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions, group medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, and 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 and bi-annual company-wide shutdowns
• Flexible work models, including remote work arrangements, where possible

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As an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people around the world, Amgen fosters an inclusive environment of diverse, ethical, committed and highly accomplished people who respect each other and live the Amgen values to continue advancing science to serve patients. Together, we compete in the fight against serious disease.

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