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Amgen CD&A - Commercial Insights Senior Manager, Primary Market Research in Thousand Oaks, California
HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?
If you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. At Amgen, our shared mission—to serve patients—drives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies. We are global collaborators who achieve together—researching, manufacturing, and delivering ever-better products that reach over 10 million patients worldwide. It’s time for a career you can be proud of.
CD&A - Commercial Insights Senior Manager, Primary Market Research
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What you will do
Let’s do this. Let’s change the world! In this vital role the Commercial Insights Senior Manager will lead insights generation activities by integrating primary market research (qualitative and quantitative) with secondary data analytics and engaging other Commercial Data and Analytics (CD&A) team members. The role reports to the Director for Commercial Insights, Inflammation.
Flexible Commuter role to Thousand Oaks, US Headquarter site. You will work on-site a minimum of 2 days a week.
Key job responsibilities:
Leverages deep scientific or biopharma understanding to appropriately define relevant business problems and address through data and analytics approaches/projects
Identifies key business questions that need to be addressed to meet changing business needs
Consistently engage in thought leadership to shape brand strategy
Influences leadership to incorporate key findings, insights and intelligence into program strategy
Prioritize research resources to impact critical business issues and decisions
Turn unstructured business issues/requests into appropriate action plans and projects that result in high quality, meaningful and actionable deliverables
Plan, design and conduct key strategic and highly complex market research programs and translate the findings into strategic and tactical recommendations that help drive brand success
Synthesize and integrate various data, research and analyses into actionable insights
Ensuring that analyses and summaries of results are shared in the form of compelling stories that deepen customer understanding
Stays on the leading edge of data and analytics techniques and capabilities; and leads implementation of new methodologies and best practices
Consider alternative methodologies to collect the voice of customer, being open to emerging innovative methods without immediately jumping to standard methods
Develop and nurture productive relationships with the cross-functional marketing team to appropriately define the business problems/business questions
Identify, evaluate, and manage relationships with best-in-class insights vendors
Ensure that both routine and ad-hoc projects are in compliance with all Amgen SOPs and meet service-level expectations for quality, timeliness, and budget
Some travel required
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What we expect of you
We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The market research professional we seek is a collaborative partner with these qualifications.
Basic Qualifications:
Doctorate degree and 2 years of market research and/or analytics experience
Or
Master’s degree and 3 years of market research and/or analytics experience
Or
Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of market research and/or analytics experience
Or
Associate's degree and 6 years of market research and/or analytics experience
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High school diploma / GED and 12 years of market research and/or analytics experience
Preferred Qualifications:
Excellent technical skills in marketing research. Experience across a broad range of study designs and participant types
Excellent organization and ability to integrate findings
Ability to incorporate above-brand KBQs throughout research
Ability to function independently
US in-line experience
Co-promote experience
HCP and Consumer/DTC PMR experience
Demonstrated exceptional strategic / critical thinking abilities and eye for business
Demonstrated ability to dig deep and uncover the “why” beneath observed HCP behaviors (go beyond the rational)
Excellent oral and written presentation skills with ability to explain complex concepts clearly to a variety of audiences
Ability to work collaboratively in team-based environment
Ability to balance multiple projects and workstreams simultaneously
Proficient facilitation, negotiation, problem-solving and conflict resolution skills
Thrive
What you can expect of us
As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for our teammates’ professional and personal growth and well-being.
Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan comprising 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 including:
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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Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider you without regard to your race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.
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