Project Manager

Career Category Project Management Job Description 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. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline of medicines to treat cancer, heart disease, inflammatory conditions, rare diseases, and obesity and obesity-related conditions. 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. Project Manager What you will do Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will join our CMCi Integrated Portfolio Advancement team. This role will be based on our main corporate campus in Thousand Oaks, CA and will report to a Sr. Project Manager in the Pre-Pivotal, Late stage and Life Cycle Management (LCM) IPA team in Process Development.  The Project Manager (PM) will be responsible for integrating Process Development (PD) activities by developing and maintaining project schedules for Amgen pipeline projects. This Project Manager will have a significant focus on supporting programs in the Pre-Pivotal, Pivotal (late stage) and/or Life Cycle Management (LCM) phases of development. Working with the Global Operations Leader and other members of the Product Delivery Team, the PM develops and aligns plans and schedules for PD activities with business priorities. The PM captures associated project risks, develops mitigation plans and communicates project status clearly to impacted stakeholders. The PM assists with driving decision making for the project and ensures that action items are captured and tracked to completion. The PM partners with PD technical leads to identify key deliverables and activities to be completed, identifies dependencies, and optimizes the sequence of project activities. The PM ensures cross-functional alignment through the integration of interdependent activities and through the communication of plans and timelines, with specific emphasis on critical path activities. The PM assists PD technical leads with tracking the execution of required deliverables and assists with navigating project teams through corporate governance. The PM collects, digests and assembles information to enable relevant business analysis and influence decision-making. The PM will leverage soft skills, technical knowledge, and leadership attributes to influence positive project outcomes.  Responsibilities include but are not limited to:   Work with technical and/or Product Delivery Teams by creating project schedules/resources that align with PD prioritization  Support projects that utilize internal and external personnel, contract firms, and partners  Assist PD in driving decision making using DAI principles (D- Decision maker, A- Advice Giver, I- Informed) by producing risk analyses and scenario planning  Ensure participation in functional and cross-functional management reviews  Establish and manage collaboration and team SharePoint sites  Provide meeting management support including meeting planning, scheduling, facilitation, documentation (development of meeting agenda and minutes), and outcomes communication  Ensure product project reporting Manage and prioritize support of multiple project teams at one time