Executive Director, Global Marketing Lead – Type 2 Diabetes
Amgen
Summary
In this vital role you will lead Amgen's Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) marketing strategy. Through deep understanding of customers and treatment paradigms, alongside a diverse cross-functional team, you will build a brand strategy and craft experiences to maximize impact at launch. The ED Global Marketing Lead (GML) for Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) will report to the T2D Indication Team Lead and will be responsible for developing successful global brands as well as developing and implementing global launch strategies and optimizing the impact of marketing budgets.
Job description
Responsibilities
- Lead the execution of launch and commercialization activities, focusing on global and priority markets
- Build a comprehensive global brand strategy, ensuring strong alignment across cross-functional teams
- Establish the target patient profile, utilizing deep market insights to bring the patient journey to life and inform brand positioning
- Drive the development of the global launch campaign, ensuring it is culturally relevant, distinctive, and enduring
- Lead the insight-driven development of branding, messaging, and market activation strategies to maximize launch impact and sustain commercial success
- Represent commercial interests in the Indication Team, working closely with R&D, medical, and regulatory functions to ensure alignment
- Partner with Market Access & Pricing teams to optimize pricing and reimbursement strategies to support global market entry
- Foster ongoing insights development by collaborating internally and externally, ensuring data-driven decision-making for the brand
- Monitor and analyze market trends, competitive landscape, and industry developments to inform brand strategy adjustments
- Represent the company at industry conferences and build relationships with key opinion leaders and stakeholders
- Manage the global marketing budget, ensuring optimal resource allocation to maximize brand impact
Basic Qualifications
- Doctorate degree & 6 years of marketing experience OR Master's degree & 10 years of marketing experience OR Bachelor's degree & 12 years of marketing experience
- 6 years of managerial experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs or directing the allocation of resources
Preferred Qualifications
- Global brand launch experience
- Experience leading cross-functional teams in a matrix environment, managing global projects involving multiple functions and shared accountabilities
- Experience in strategic marketing roles up to Head of Marketing / Portfolio leadership level in Global or US roles
- Understanding of broad, global market dynamics and cultural awareness and sensitivity to form relationships and collaborate effectively with colleagues around the world
- Experience in a tactical, "line" commercial role, implementing marketing strategies in local markets
- Understanding of global market access, pricing, and reimbursement issues
- Ability to leverage customer knowledge to enable decision-making and prioritization of investment
- Experience within Type 2 Diabetes, obesity and/or cardiometabolic disease
Requirements
- Doctorate degree & 6 years of marketing experience OR Master's degree & 10 years of marketing experience OR Bachelor's degree & 12 years of marketing experience
- 6 years of managerial experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs or directing the allocation of resources
- Global brand launch experience
- Experience leading cross-functional teams in a matrix environment
- Experience in strategic marketing roles up to Head of Marketing / Portfolio leadership level
- Understanding of broad, global market dynamics and cultural awareness
- Experience in a tactical, line commercial role implementing marketing strategies in local markets
- Understanding of global market access, pricing, and reimbursement issues
- Ability to leverage customer knowledge to enable decision-making and prioritization of investment
- Experience within Type 2 Diabetes, obesity and/or cardiometabolic disease
Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Dental Coverage
- Vision Coverage
- Life Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- Retirement & Savings Plan
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Discretionary Annual Bonus
- Stock-Based Long-Term Incentives
- Paid Time Off
- Flexible Work Models
Company overview
Amgen Inc. is a leading American multinational biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Thousand Oaks, California, founded in 1980. As one of the world's largest independent biotechnology companies, Amgen specializes in discovering, developing, manufacturing, and delivering innovative human therapeutics. The company focuses on six key therapeutic areas: inflammation, oncology/hematology, bone health, cardiovascular disease, nephrology, and neuroscience. Amgen's portfolio includes blockbuster drugs such as Enbrel for autoimmune diseases, Prolia and XGEVA for osteoporosis, Repatha for cholesterol management, Otezla for psoriasis, and Neulasta for chemotherapy-induced neutropenia. With approximately 28,000 employees worldwide, Amgen operates as a component of both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Nasdaq-100 indices. The company maintains a robust research and development pipeline with numerous clinical programs across various stages, leveraging cutting-edge biotechnology and human genetic data to address some of the world's most challenging diseases. Amgen's manufacturing capabilities span multiple global locations, and it distributes products through pharmaceutical wholesale distributors and direct-to-consumer channels.