Project Manager, Congress Planning

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. The Project Manager leads planning and delivery of global congresses within an assigned therapeutic area. The role translates therapeutic area priorities into actionable congress plans, aligns internal teams and agency partners around clear outcomes, and is accountable for scope, timelines, governance, risk management, operational readiness, and delivery quality. The Project Manager partners and guides Execution Leads responsible for day-to-day activities and aligns with the Therapeutic Area Lead on strategic direction, resource decisions, and congress outcomes.

Project Planning and Management

Execute on congress scope, goals, and deliverables aligned with business and therapeutic area objectives

Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans, timelines, milestones, deliverables, and communication documents aligned with congress strategy and standardized ACT templates

Align cross-functional stakeholders on scope, priorities, responsibilities, and deliverables from initiation through completion

Monitor project progress, critical paths, risks, issues, and dependencies, partnering with the Therapeutic Area Lead to implement mitigation and contingency plans

Partner with and provide guidance to Execution Leads on requests, priorities, and execution

Execution and Delivery

Provide end-to-end oversight of congress planning and execution, ensuring responsibilities are clearly assigned and deliverables are completed by the appropriate owners

Drive cross-functional teams to meet milestones and ensure timely delivery of activities

Oversee governance and execution quality across all phases, ensuring consistency in processes, tools, and standards

Ensure readiness across all workstreams, including materials, staffing, and operational plans

Stakeholder Coordination and Communication

Serve as the primary point of contact for internal teams and external agencies for congress execution

Align marketing, medical, regulatory, legal, operations, and other cross functional teams to support coordinated congress planning, approval processes, and on-site execution

Establish and manage communication cadence, including status reports and stakeholder updates

Build and maintain strong working relationships critical to project success