[Hiring] Associate Director Study Start-up @Amgen

Role 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.

In this vital role you will:

• Drive world-class study start-up planning and execution across a global portfolio, ensuring clinical trials launch with quality, efficiency, and speed.
• Lead and manage a team of Study Start-up Managers, ensuring high-quality, compliant study start-up delivery across multiple programs and therapeutic areas.
• Drive end-to-end study start-up planning and execution from global to local, delivering milestones on time, within budget, and in line with ICH-GCP and regulatory requirements.
• Provide portfolio-level oversight of study start-up performance, resourcing, and delivery metrics, escalating risks with solution-focused recommendations.
• Build team capability through coaching, mentoring, performance management, and role modelling of best practices in study start-up delivery.
• Partner with functional and hub leaders to strengthen study start-up capabilities, ways of working, and operational readiness across the organisation.
• Own and embed study start-up business processes, ensuring consistent application through training, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.
• Foster a collaborative, high-engagement culture that encourages innovation, learning, and the sharing of knowledge and best practice.
• Contribute to the evolution of the Study Start-up Hub model, shaping future ways of working through feedback, insights, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

• Requires pharma and clinical trial processes and operations expertise; no relevant therapeutic knowledge required.
• Requires experience leading and managing global teams and project management experience.
• No prior Veeva experience required.
• Doctorate degree and 3 years of clinical execution experience OR
• Master’s degree and 7 years of clinical execution experience OR
• Bachelor’s degree and 9 years of clinical execution experience OR
• Associate’s degree and 12 years of clinical execution experience OR
• High school diploma / GED and 14 years of clinical execution experience.
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs, or directing the allocation of resources.

Requirements

• 7 years work experience in life sciences industry, particularly focusing on clinical trial work, including 5 years of biopharmaceutical clinical research experience obtained at a biotech or pharmaceutical company.
• Experience managing multiple teams / direct reports across multiple clinical functions.

Benefits

• 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.