Marketing Director, Oncology

Career Category

Marketing

Job 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.

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. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline of medicines to treat cancer, heart disease, inflammatory conditions, rare diseases, and obesity and obesity-related conditions. 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.

Marketing Director, Oncology

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. The Director, BLINCYTO life cycle management (LCM) Marketing will play a pivotal role in executing and supporting the US commercial strategy for patient impact extension (PIE) opportunities including upcoming line extensions for BLINCYTO. This individual will be a core member of the brand team, responsible for translating global strategy into actionable US plans and ensuring strong pre-launch readiness, early commercialization success, and inline execution for a critical priority brand.

This is a high-impact, high-visibility role requiring a strong marketer who can operate at both strategic and executional levels - someone who can take complex science and turn it into clear, compelling customer engagement while navigating a highly matrixed organization.

The Director will partner closely with the Executive Director (US Brand Lead) as well as Global Marketing and cross-functional teams to build the foundation for a successful launch in a competitive and rapidly evolving treatment landscape.

Launch Strategy & Execution

• Support development and execution of the US launch & brand strategy, ensuring alignment with global direction and US market needs.
• Translate strategic imperatives into actionable tactical plans across pre-launch and early commercialization phases.
• Drive key components of launch readiness, including milestone tracking, execution planning, and risk mitigation.
• Contribute to scenario planning across regulatory, competitive, and access environments.

Brand Strategy & Tactical Development

• Support refinement of the US brand strategy, positioning, and value proposition in partnership with the Executive Director and Global team.
• Lead development and localization of core marketing materials and campaigns (HCP, patient, and payer), ensuring consistency, compliance, and impact.
• Help shape the brand narrative and messaging platform grounded in clinical data, customer insights, and competitive differentiation.
• Ensure executional excellence across channels, including personal, digital, and omnichannel engagement.
• Integrate launch strategy into existing brand strategy to optimize value of the brand across all appropriate indications

Customer & Market Insights

• Generate and synthesize customer insights to inform strategy and tactics, including HCP attitudes, treatment dynamics, and barriers to adoption.
• Support market definition efforts, including segmentation, targeting, and understanding of care pathways.
• Monitor competitive landscape and evolving standard of care to inform strategic adjustments.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Partner closely with key functions including Sales, Medical, Market Access, Value & Access, Patient Support, Regulatory, Legal, and Digital.
• Help drive alignment across the matrix to ensure cohesive and coordinated execution.
• Serve as a key liaison between Global and US teams to ensure effective localization of strategy.

Field Enablement & Execution

• Partner with Sales leadership to ensure field readiness, including development of training materials, messaging, and tools.
• Support creation of compelling, compliant promotional materials that equip the field to effectively communicate the value story.
• Contribute to development of customer engagement plans that drive awareness, adoption, and appropriate use.

Operational Excellence

• Manage agency partners and external vendors to deliver high-quality work on time and within budget.
• Track performance metrics and KPIs to assess effectiveness of marketing initiatives and inform optimization.
• Ensure all activities meet compliance, legal, and regulatory standards.

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The marketing professional we seek is a leader with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree and 4 years of marketing experience

OR

Master’s degree and 7  years of marketing experience

OR

Bachelor’s degree and 9 years of marketing experience

Preferred Qualifications:

Marketing & Launch Experience

• 5+ years of progressive commercial experience within biopharma/biotech.
• Experience supporting a product launch or major indication expansion, ideally in oncology or specialty markets.
• Exposure to pre-launch planning, brand development, and early commercialization activities.

Strategic & Analytical Capability

• Ability to translate clinical data and scientific concepts into clear, differentiated messaging.
• Strong analytical mindset with experience leveraging insights and performance data to guide decisions.
• Understanding of US healthcare ecosystem, including market access and reimbursement dynamics.

Collaboration & Influence

• Demonstrated success working in a cross-functional, matrixed environment.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence without direct authority.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and fast-moving environments.

Therapeutic Area Experience

• Oncology experience preferred; prostate cancer experience a plus.
• Familiarity with complex specialty markets, novel mechanisms such as CAR-T or BiTE therapies, or biomarker-driven therapies is advantageous.

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 where possible. Refer to the Work Location Type in the job posting to see if this applies.

Apply now and make a lasting impact with the Amgen team.

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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.

Sponsorship

Sponsorship for this role is not guaranteed.

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.

Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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Salary Range

184,336.10USD -249,395.90 USD