Amgen

Clinical Scientist Associate Director

Amgen  •  Portuguese Republic (Onsite)  •  3 hours ago
Apply
AI can make mistakes so check important info. Chat history is never stored.

Job Description

Career Category

Clinical

What you will do

In this role, the Clinical Scientist Associate Director supports the design, execution, and oversight of clinical trials and other late-phase global clinical studies. The role contributes to protocol development, study execution, medical monitoring support, and clinical data review, ensuring delivery of high-quality, decision-ready clinical data for regulatory submissions and scientific dissemination.

  • Support the design, start-up, and execution of global clinical trials, ensuring adherence to protocol, regulatory requirements, and data integrity standards.
  • Contribute to development of clinical protocols, statistical analysis plans, investigator brochures, and regulatory documents, with focus on study endpoints, key efficacy outcomes, and safety assessments.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support endpoint strategy, event adjudication processes, and safety monitoring.
  • Participate in development and oversight of endpoint adjudication charters, safety monitoring plans, and Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) interactions.
  • Provide clinical input into data management plans, CRF design, and clinical data review, with focus on key study endpoints, efficacy and safety outcomes, and/or imaging or biomarker endpoints, as applicable.
  • Conduct ongoing clinical data review and signal detection, supporting identification and resolution of safety and data quality issues across global trial sites.
  • Support preparation and interpretation of interim analyses, database lock activities, and top-line data readouts.
  • Assist Development Lead and Clinical Scientist Director with medical monitoring activities and oversight of CROs, vendors, and adjudication committees.
  • Collaborate with clinical operations, biostatistics, safety, regulatory, and medical affairs teams to ensure successful delivery of clinical studies across relevant indications and endpoint strategies.
  • Contribute to clinical study reports, regulatory submissions, scientific publications, and presentations for internal and external stakeholders.
  • Identify operational or scientific risks and proactively implement mitigation strategies across cross-functional teams.

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The dynamic professional we seek is a leader with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree and 3 years of life sciences/healthcare experience

OR

Master’s degree and 5 years of life sciences/healthcare experience

OR

Bachelor’s degree and 7 years of life sciences/healthcare experience

Preferred Qualifications:

  • 3 years of pharmaceutical clinical drug development experience, including experience supporting late-stage, global clinical trials.
  • Demonstrated experience contributing to clinical trial process improvements within a therapeutic area or study team environment
  • Industry or academic experience in a relevant therapeutic area and/or clinical trials; experience in large global studies preferred.
  • Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to clearly convey scientific concepts and clinical data to cross-functional teams and leadership audiences, both written and oral
  • Experience supporting the design, monitoring, and implementation of clinical trials in compliance with Good Clinical Practice standards and applicable regulatory requirements
  • Working knowledge of study data readout activities, including data cleaning, database lock, data extraction, endpoint validation, and generation of analysis outputs to support topline and final results.
  • Experience contributing to regulatory submission documents and supporting clinical regulatory responses for health authority interactions under guidance
  • Experience serving as a contributing author on scientific publications or data presentations for internal forums or scientific conferences
  • Experience in clinical data review and analysis tools such as Spotfire, listings review platforms, or other data visualization and analysis tools.
Amgen

About Amgen

Amgen harnesses the best of biology and technology to fight the world’s toughest diseases, and make people’s lives easier, fuller and longer. We helped establish the biotechnology industry, and we remain on the cutting-edge of innovation, using technology and human genetic data to push beyond what’s known today. Our investment in research and development has yielded a robust pipeline that builds on our existing portfolio of medicines to treat cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis, inflammatory diseases and rare diseases.

Amgen is one of 30 companies comprising the Dow Jones Industrial Average®, and part of the Nasdaq-100 Index®. In 2024, Amgen was named one of the “World’s Most Innovative Companies” by Fast Company and one of “America’s Best Large Employers” by Forbes.

For more information, visit Amgen.com and follow us on X, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Threads.

🔗 Community Guidelines: https://wwwext.amgen.com/community-guidelines

🔗Global Privacy Statement Directory: www.amgen.com/dp

Special Advisory: Please be cautious of scam recruitment offers claiming to be from Amgen. Such scams may come from various sources, including fake websites and/or unsolicited emails and seek to obtain personal data or payment from victims by offering jobs that do not exist. Please be advised that Amgen would never ask for payment to progress a job application. When in doubt, please check to see if the position in question is posted on this website before applying. Additionally, please report any suspicious recruiting activity to https://complaint.ic3.gov/ and thank you for your assistance.

Industry
Biotech & Life Sciences
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Thousand Oaks, CA
Year Founded
1980
Website
amgen.com
Social Media