Executive Director Study Start-Up

At Amgen, every challenge is an opportunity. And every opportunity brings the potential to change lives. Our shared mission—to serve patients—has driven our status as one of the world’s preeminent biotechnology companies, reaching over 10 million patients worldwide. Leverage your high-level expertise to lead and forge partnerships that advance the biotechnical and biopharmaceutical science that can turn the tide of serious, life-interrupting illnesses.

In this vital role, you will lead the Study Start-Up (SSU) Hub as a global center of excellence, defining and implementing a unified SSU capability strategy that accelerates start-up timelines and ensures consistent quality across all programs and therapeutic areas. You will shape a scalable operating model, influence portfolio and program planning through governance forums, and champion innovation, digital solutions, and continuous improvement to strengthen global study start-up performance.

• Defining and governing the global SSU strategy, integrating sub-function approaches into a cohesive, scalable capability aligned with enterprise priorities.
• Serving as the global escalation point for start-up risks and issues, ensuring timely resolution and portfolio-level visibility.
• Building and leading global SSU leadership team, fostering accountability, talent development, and center-of-excellence.
• Overseeing global study start-up planning and execution to consistently meet timeline, quality, and performance targets.
• Embedding standardized metrics, KPIs, and performance management to drive transparency and improvement.
• Partnering with senior leaders across Clinical Development, Operations, Regulatory, and Regions to align resources and enable trial success.
• Representing Amgen externally and internally, bringing industry insights into the organization and positioning the SSU Hub as a strategic enabler of clinical trial administration.

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. What we seek in you as an experienced professional, are these qualifications and skills:

• Degree educated.
• Extensive experience in biotech or pharma, with deep expertise in clinical trial execution.
• Strong leadership experience in global, cross-functional, and geographically diverse clinical teams, including managing leaders in complex organizations.
• Demonstrated success driving cross-functional change and operational transformation.
• Deep knowledge of end-to-end clinical development across early and late stages.
• Experience building capabilities, including training and performance improvement.
• Strong stakeholder management and senior-level influencing skills.
• Strategic, enterprise-minded problem solver with a portfolio-level perspective.

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, so we work to care for our teammates’ professional and personal growth and well-being.

• Clear and disciplined strategic vision for the future that leverages superior-quality products, operational excellence and top-shelf-talent.
• Diverse and inclusive community of belonging, where teammates are empowered to bring ideas to the table and act.
• Generous Total Rewards Plan comprising health, finance and wealth, work/life balance, and career benefits.

Ability to work fully remote, or, if situated near an office, the option to work flexibly from home with occasional office presence at our Cambridge or Uxbridge next-generation workspace.

Application due date: 12th February 2026.

What we do is hard. It should be. We are working with each other against the challenges of today for the promise of tomorrow. Lead the way.