Associate Vice President, AI&D Scaled Operations and Transformation

Job Title: Associate Vice President, AI&D Scaled Operations and Transformation

Job Location: Thousand Oaks, California, United States

Job Location Type: Remote

Job Contract Type: Full-time
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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 as Associate Vice President, Scaled Operations and Transformation you will lead the operating system, enablement, and cross-functional mechanisms that make AI&D more consistent, scalable, and high-performing.The role translates AI&D strategy into clear operating standards, decision rights, performance mechanisms, workforce and capability plans, and repeatable ways of working across the AI&D organization.Serving as an enterprise integrator and catalyst for execution, the AVP will connect the AI&D leadership team with Product, Data, AI/DS, Technology, Finance, Human Resources, business functions, and external partners to remove friction, accelerate execution, and enable reuse across the organization. The role will build a globally connected operating model across US and AIN talent while helping AI&D move from experimentation to coordinated scale.The AVP will lead four integrated capabilities: Operating Excellence; Continuous Improvement & Organizational Performance; Partner Enablement & Operations; and Enterprise AI Literacy & Learning and Development. The role will establish mechanisms for handoffs and transition-to-scale, coordinate cross-AI&D operating interventions, and recommend capacity, workforce, and operating-model shifts.
Key Responsibilities:

Operating Excellence

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Define and evolve AI&D operating models, governance, forums, decision rights, and standards that enable consistent execution across teams and geographies.

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Establish repeatable ways of working, delivery standards, playbooks, and handoff patterns across AI&D, including clear transition-to-scale mechanisms.

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Translate AI&D strategy into practical operating mechanisms that clarify accountability, dependencies, escalation paths, and execution rhythm.

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Identify and address duplication, fragmentation, and gaps across teams while preserving accountability with business, Product, Data, AI/DS, and platform owners.

Continuous Improvement & Organizational Performance

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Establish performance KPIs, operating reviews, and management mechanisms that provide leaders with timely insight into outcomes, capacity, risks, and health execution.

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Drive capacity and workforce planning insights across AI&D, including location, talent mix, resource allocation, and capability need.

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Lead continuous-improvement efforts to surface friction, prioritize enterprise interventions, and drive issues through resolution and adoption.

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Use portfolio and resource analytics to identify trends, interdependencies, and opportunities to improve cycle time, productivity, and organizational effectiveness.

Partner Enablement & Operation