**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. **Observational Research Senior Manager** **What you will do** Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. Are you searching for a new, dynamic opportunity working with multiple teams to generate real world evidence supporting a wide variety of business needs? If so, we invite you to explore Amgen’s Center for Observational Research. With a constantly growing demand for information from regulatory and reimbursement agencies, Observational Research (OR) is a critical component in drug development and commercialization. Amgen’s Center for Observational Research (CfOR) partners with internal and external teams to generate real world evidence for multiple partners across the entire product lifecycle. We generate evidence to inform the frequency, distribution, clinical burden, natural history, and clinical course of disease, the design of clinical trials, health resource utilization, drug utilization patterns, and the safety and effectiveness of our medicines. Amgen is searching for an Observational Research Senior Manager (Epidemiology), who will be part of the Data Strategy team, and will lead activities for enabling the use of high-quality real-world data to meet priority evidence generation needs across Amgen’s portfolio. This vital role will have responsibilities for gathering insights and building collaborations and capabilities to advance the generation, use, and dissemination of real-world evidence (RWE) related to disease state epidemiology, treatment patterns, and medication safety and effectiveness to inform regulatory decision making and enhance access and use of Amgen’s medicines. **Responsibilities** + Conduct data landscaping reviews and data gap analyses to identify strategic opportunities to meet real-world evidence needs with fit-for-purpose real-world data + Conduct evaluations of real-world data to ensure data meet standards for quality, validity, completeness, reliability and applicability + Lead the design, generation and delivery of RWE to validate the use of real-world data sources for identifying the patient populations and outcomes needed to assess the safety and effectiveness of our medicines – to inform regulatory decision making and fulfill regulatory requirements across the globe. + Negotiate with cross-functional partners and enhance the use of RWE that can substitute for and/or complement interventional studies to reduce the time and cost of drug development and answer key business questions. + Facilitate the dissemination of RWE through publications, congress presentations, trainings, and development of scientific/promotional resources targeting a broad base of external partners (e.g., health care providers, payers, integrated delivery networks). + Contribute to the development and implementation of innovative analytic methods, and leverage CfOR’s internal data and analytics capabilities and tools to enable rapid, scalable and reproducible RWE. + Build external partnerships that can provide access to databases that can improve the quality and availability of real-world data in different patient populations and countries and facilitate execution of methodologically rigorous studies. + Contribute to CfOR’s mission in progressing innovative epidemiological methods and analytical capabilities to support CfOR’s leadership role within Amgen and across industry. **What we expect of you** We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek has these qualifications. **Basic Qualifications:** Doctorate degree and 2 years of related research and scientific experience Or Master's degree and 4 years of related research and scientific experience Or Bachelor's degree and 6 years of related research and scientific experience Or Bachelor's degree and 10 years of related research and scientific experience Or High School diploma / GED and 12 years of related research and scientific experience **Preferred Qualifications:** + Doctorate in Epidemiology or other subject with high observational research content. + Experience in the design, execution and analysis of observation research studies within Pharmaceutical and/or Public Health settings. + Experience in research to support drug development. + Experience working with secondary data systems including administrative claims, EMR and registries. + Experience in observational research project planning and management. + Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills. + Experience working with and leading multi-disciplinary teams. **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 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** **for a career that defies imagination** Objects in your future are closer than they appear. Join us. **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. 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