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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. 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.
Data Acquisition Lead
What You Will Do
Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will lead the acquisition, integration, and quality management of non-CRF (external/vendor) clinical trial data, ensuring it is timely, accurate, and fit-for-purpose to support study delivery, analytics, with regulatory compliance.
- In this vital role, you will lead the acquisition, integration, and quality management of non‑CRF (external/vendor) clinical trial data, ensuring it is timely, accurate, traceable, and fit‑for‑purpose to support study delivery, analytics, database lock, inspections, and regulatory compliance.
- Own the design, setup, and ongoing management of non‑CRF data (e.g., central labs, imaging, wearables, precision medicine), ensuring seamless integration, traceability, and compliant ingestion into EDC and other clinical data systems.
- Own, define, and maintain vendor data transfer specifications and agreements, aligned with protocol, study requirements, and downstream data needs; oversee test and production data transfers with suppliers.
- Ensure timely, accurate, and compliant ingestion of external datasets, proactively reviewing incoming data for quality, completeness, and consistency; resolve formatting, mapping, and data quality issues in collaboration with vendors and study teams.
- Lead reconciliation activities, initiating early and continuous reconciliation throughout the study lifecycle to prevent downstream delays and ensure ongoing data delivery and analysis readiness.
- Own issue and query resolution for external data, troubleshooting data transfer, integration, and consistency issues; escalate data risks, delays, quality concerns, or systemic issues to study teams and governance forums as needed.
- Partner closely with global and local cross‑functional study teams, the role requires experience managing external clinical trial data, strong knowledge of metadata standards, data review workflows, reconciliation methodologies, and EDC systems such as Rave and Veeva.
- Support database lock and inspection readiness, participating in governance and data review meetings, ensuring external data quality, traceability, and documentation standards are met.
- Drive process improvements, automation, and standardization initiatives to improve operational efficiency, scalability, data quality, and vendor integration performance.
- Possess strong operational and process-oriented mindset, effective problem-solving and risk management skills, strong communication, collaboration abilities and mentoring juniors.
What We Expect Of You
We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The candidate we seek is an individual with the following qualifications.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree and 8 - 15 years of clinical execution experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 8 years’ work experience in life sciences or medically related field, including 3 years of biopharmaceutical clinical research experience obtained working on clinical trials in a biotech, pharmaceutical or CRO company
- Experience engaging and working across clinical trial teams in multiple geographies to deliver global clinical trials
- Experience in management and oversight of external vendors (e.g., CROs, central labs, imaging vendors, etc.)
Apply now for a career that defies imagination
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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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