Manager, External Engagement

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. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline and portfolio of medicines to treat heart disease, obesity and obesity-related conditions, rare diseases, inflammatory conditions and cancer. 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 you will play a pivotal role in ensuring seamless operations across our media relations, social media and digital communications teams. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to a hard-working team, harnessing your operational expertise to support Amgen’s highest-priority external communications and engagement initiatives.

To achieve their goals, the Manager will collaborate with numerous internal cross-functional teams, agency partners and vendors. This position reports directly to the Executive Director, External Engagement, operating as a self-starter while working on a collaborative and impactful team. This position can sit remotely in the U.S. and does not need to be based in Thousand Oaks, CA. East Coast working hours are preferred.

Responsibilities

Support the media relations, social media and digital communications teams in day-to-day operations, ensuring smooth coordination of activities across external engagement

Supervise the Corporate Affairs material review process and system to ensure compliance with company standards and regulations, including maintaining the training program

Distribute Amgen global press releases

Prepare comprehensive media, social and digital monitoring and performance reports around key company news and campaigns

Manage contracts and relationships with external engagement vendors across media, social and digital; assess and recommend new vendors and opportunities for consideration

Work closely with a wide variety of teams within Corporate Affairs and cross-functionally

Lead integrated external engagement metrics and reporting across media, social and digital channels

Develop executive briefing materials and integrated external engagement plans as needed

Manage the external engagement budget, purchase orders and invoices

Identify and assess emerging industry trends, earned media outlets, social platforms and digital communication technologies to ensure Amgen remains at the forefront of external engagement best practices

Direct public relations, social media and digital agency partners to maximize impact and help achieve external communications goals and objectives

Maintain and regularly update the media team’s journalist database and other external engagement contact and channel resources

Support media pitching and engagement, social media publishing and community management, and digital content coordination