Business Performance Senior Manager, RDO Transformation

Location: Thousand Oaks
Posted on: June 23, 2025

Job Description:

Join Amgens Mission of Serving Patients At Amgen, if you feel like youre part of something bigger, its because you are. Our shared missionto serve patients living with serious illnessesdrives all that we do. Since 1980, weve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the worlds 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, youll 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, youll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career. Business Performance Senior Manager, RDO Transformation What you will do Lets do this. Lets change the world. In this vital role you will serve as a strategic integrator, driving cross-functional alignment, operational readiness, and capability uplift across RDO and Amgen high-priority initiatives. This role is pivotal in ensuring seamless integration of new processes, systems, and teams, while also building sustainable capabilities that support long-term organizational growth. This role will provide integration capability leadership through leading the planning and execution of acquisition-related integrations, such as when Amgen acquires a company or product into our portfolio. The focus will be on activities across functions, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and timelines. This role will identify interdependencies, risks, and mitigation strategies across integration workstreams. It will serve as the primary liaison between RDO and enabling functions (e.g., Operations, Commercial, R&D) to ensure cohesive execution. It will also act as a delegate in key forums, decision-making bodies, and stakeholder engagements during Integrations. This role will prepare executive summaries, decision memos, and briefing materials for leadership reviews. It will drive timely prioritization and decision-making aligned with stakeholder expectations. The Business Performance Senior Manager will be responsible for high-priority Amgen initiatives; examples may include designing and implementing frameworks for capability development, documentation standards, training programs, and process simplification. This role will partner with project and functional teams as relevant to deploy or embed standard processes. It will lead or support RASCI development, role clarity, and resource alignment across transformation initiatives. The role will develop and maintain integrated project plans, timelines, and governance models. It will also facilitate cross-functional workshops and task forces to accelerate delivery and resolve blockers. Additionally, it will support change management efforts including partner engagement, communications, and training. The Senior Manager Business Performance will gather, analyze, and synthesize cross-functional information across a variety of sources to turn unstructured business issues and requests into appropriate transformation mapping, implementation plans, and high-quality deliverables. This individual will also support program level presentations and reports that clearly summarize status, issues, implications and recommendations to key partners to inform and communicate decision making. This role will support overall implementation of complex cross-functional projects, often parachuting into critical workstreams to de-bottleneck and/or accelerate performance. Ongoing project work will focus on active integrations and past integration work and resulting capabilities and continuous improvement, with the opportunity to flex across the Amgen enterprise in the future. This role will be accountable for: Supporting ongoing implementation of a consistent integration methodology Establishing and maintaining a knowledge management system for integration capability Providing guidance to functional teams on project milestone planning and execution Conducting program-level impact analysis to identify potential challenges and risks, and support the development of mitigation plans Collaborating with cross-functional partners on implementation planning and execution Identifying and implementing best practices and lessons learned to continuously improve the transformation process A successful candidate is someone who adapts and thrives in a constantly evolving and fast-moving environment. While your day-to-day activities may look different, you can expect to do the following: Provide expertise in transformation and implementation appropriate for the objective Constructively challenge teams by providing disconfirming information and encouraging innovative problem solving Facilitate workshops and governance discussions What we expect of you We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek is an individual with these qualifications. Basic Qualifications: Doctorate degree and 2 years of Scientific and/or Operations and/or Business (i.e. Management Consulting) experience Or Masters degree and 4 years of Scientific and/or Operations and/or Business (i.e. Management Consulting) experience Or Bachelors degree and 6 years of Scientific and/or Operations and/or Business (i.e. Management Consulting) experience Or Associates degree and 10 years of Scientific and/or Operations and/or Business (i.e. Management Consulting) experience Or High School Diploma/GED and 12 years of Scientific and/or Operations and/or Business (i.e. Management Consulting) experience Preferred Qualifications: Deep expertise in change and project management, including the ability to work with and synthesize inputs from cross-functional subject matter experts, often in highly technical fields. Strong background in biopharma with a focus on strategic problem solving and transformation Certified Six Sigma Black Belt, Project Management Professional, or equivalent 2 years of cross-functional consulting and/or project management experience Excellent conceptual problem-solving skills with demonstrated ability to bring structure to vaguely defined problems, pragmatically scope problem solving approach, and manage execution Strong leadership skills with a demonstrated ability to influence different styles Ability to navigate and align stakeholders Experience building strong relationships in cross-functional teams Excellent oral and written communication skills, including ability to storyline and prepare executive-level discussion documents Strong quantitative and qualitative analytic skills 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, well support your journey every step of the way. The expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is posted. Actual salary will vary based on several factors including but not limited to, relevant skills, experience, and qualifications. 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: 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, 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 Flexible work models, including remote and hybrid work arrangements, where possible Apply now and make a lasting impact with the Amgen team. careers.amgen.com In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information. Application deadline Amgen does not have an application deadline for this position; we will continue accepting applications until we receive a sufficient number or select a candidate for the position. 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. Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by applicable law. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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