CDnA - Manager – Global Commercial Insights (Obesity)

Role Summary

CDnA - Manager – Global Commercial Insights (Obesity) leads insights generation and helps build market research capabilities within Amgen's obesity insights group. The role provides deep market understanding to inform inputs using primary market research (qualitative and quantitative), strategic secondary analytics, and synthesis of internal knowledge to support product strategy, brand building, and governance. This is a flexible commuter role based in Thousand Oaks, CA, with on-site work three days per week.

Responsibilities

• Integrate insights from a variety of sources (market research, competitive intelligence, secondary data) to address business needs
• Plan, design and conduct primary market research and translate findings into strategic and tactical recommendations to enable decision making
• Turn unstructured business issues / requests into appropriate action plans and projects that result in high quality, important and concrete deliverables
• Clearly communicate ideas and insights via written or verbal presentation in the form of compelling stories that deepen customer understanding
• Set priorities, develop and manage multiple projects and timelines simultaneously

Qualifications

• Required: Doctorate degree
• Required: Master’s degree and 2 years of commercial insights or consulting experience
• Required: Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of commercial insights or consulting experience
• Required: Associate’s degree and 8 years of commercial insights or consulting experience
• Required: High school diploma / GED and 10 years of commercial insights or consulting experience
• Preferred: Ability to extract, analyze, treat, and consolidate data from different sources in clear and concise formats with rigor and high level of accuracy
• Preferred: Strong knowledge of drug development the pharmaceutical industry
• Preferred: Experience leading primary market research
• Preferred: Ability to think strategically to support key business decisions
• Preferred: Ability to work collaboratively in team-based environment across different functional groups
• Preferred: Excellent presentation skills with ability to explain complex concepts and controversial findings clearly to a variety of audiences, including senior management
• Preferred: Skilled in prioritizing multiple responsibilities, priorities, tasks, and projects simultaneously