Job description
Job Title: Global Marketing Director- Repatha - United States Remote
Job Location: Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States
Job Location Type: Remote
Job Contract Type: Full-time
Job Seniority Level:
HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?
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.
What you will do
Let's do this. Let's change the world. In this vital role, the Director, Global Marketing - Repatha will play a central role in shaping and executing the global commercial strategy for one of Amgen's leading cardiovascular brands. The Director will help maximize Repatha's long-term value by translating deep customer, market, clinical, access, competitive, and business insights into clear strategic choices; advancing the Global Brand Plan; and ensuring strong commercialization and execution across global markets.
Reporting to the Executive Director, Global Marketing Lead - Repatha, this role will lead major global brand priorities including VESALIUS-CV commercialization and launch readiness, lifecycle growth strategy, competitive preparedness, brand positioning and messaging, and global-to-local execution. The Director will partner closely with Global Medical, Development, Access, Regulatory, Commercial Data & Analytics, Forecasting, Finance, regional teams, affiliates, and external partners to strengthen Repatha's leadership in an increasingly dynamic LDL-C treatment landscape.
Key responsibilities include:
Shape and execute Repatha's global commercial strategy and Global Brand Plan, integrating customer, market, clinical, access, competitive, and financial insights into clear priorities, strategic choices, and lifecycle growth opportunities.
Lead commercialization and launch readiness for VESALIUS-CV and future evidence or indication expansions, ensuring new clinical evidence is translated into differentiated strategy, customer value, messaging, affiliate preparation, and measurable market impact.
Own and evolve Repatha's global customer and brand strategy, including priority customer segments, patient and HCP journeys, behavioral objectives, positioning, value proposition, strategic narrative, and core messaging as the market and competitive landscape evolve.
Lead competitive strategy and preparedness across current and emerging LDL-C therapies, identifying market inflection points and translating competitive intelligence into proactive strategic responses, affiliate guidance, and business recommendations.
Drive global-to-local execution by partnering with regional and affiliate teams to integrate market insight, establish clear strategic guardrails, enable appropriate local adaptation, and scale best practices across priority markets.
Lead highly matrixed cross-functional teams and major strategic workstreams, aligning Commercial, Medical, Development, Access, Regulatory, Commercial Data & Analytics, Forecasting, Finance, regions, affiliates, agencies, and other partners around shared priorities, decisions, timelines, and accountability.
Use customer, market, performance, and financial evidence to optimize strategy and investment, establish meaningful KPIs, identify execution gaps, and recommend resource and investment tradeoffs to maximize long-term brand value.
Champion innovative and AI-enabled ways of working across insight generation, competitive intelligence, content development, performance measurement, and global-to-local workflows while ensuring appropriate judgment, accuracy, compliance, and business relevance.
Expected travel (domestic and international) is 20%
Win
What we expect of you
We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The marketing leader we seek is a strategic, customer-focused, and collaborative 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:
Substantial commercial and marketing experience of increasing scope and complexity, ideally within biopharmaceuticals, healthcare, or another highly regulated environment.
Demonstrated success developing and executing global brand, commercialization, launch, or lifecycle growth strategies, with experience translating strategy into strong market execution.
Strong strategic marketing foundation with demonstrated ability to synthesize customer, clinical, market, competitive, access, and business evidence into clear strategic choices and recommendations.
Experience leading global or complex cross-functional teams in a matrix environment, building alignment across senior stakeholders, regions, and affiliate markets and influencing effectively without direct authority.
Experience with customer segmentation, positioning, messaging, customer journeys, behavioral objectives, Global Brand Planning, launch readiness, or integrated customer engagement.
Ability to interpret clinical evidence and understand the commercial implications of evolving treatment landscapes; cardiovascular, lipid management, or related therapeutic-area experience is strongly valued but not required.
Experience with global-to-local marketing, including working across cultures and markets, integrating affiliate insights, balancing global consistency with local relevance, and scaling best practices.
Experience with forecasting, long-range planning, budgeting, KPI frameworks, performance optimization, and AI- or digitally enabled marketing capabilities; MBA or other relevant advanced degree is valued.
Marketing competencies further developed through the role
This role provides recurring opportunities to deepen Lifecycle Management, Brand Positioning, Financial Acumen, and Harnessing AI Capabilities through global brand leadership, lifecycle and competitive strategy, commercialization, and cross-market execution.
Thrive
What you can expect of us
As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for our teammates’ professional and personal growth and well-being.
In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan comprising 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 including:
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
Apply now for a career that defies imagination
Objects in your future are closer than they appear. Join us.
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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 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. Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider you without regard to your race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.
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