Functional Skills

Project Management
Business Intelligence
Strategic Planning
Leadership Development
Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
Change Management / Org Design

Sector Experience

Business Services
Life Sciences & Pharma
Manufacturing
Technology
Travel & Hospitality
Fortune 500

Experience

Amgen Corporate Strategy & Development
Chief of Staf to Senior Vice President
5/2021 - 3/2023
• Business Operations leader with responsibilities to own, execute and prioritize strategic and operational projects and initiatives.
• Coordinated annual financial planning cycle across 12 sub-functions globally for $100M annual spend, including budgeting, forecasting and ad-hoc trend analysis to support accruals and projections.
• Designed and developed a leadership alignment approach, change management plan and employee communication plan for a global organizational restructure which increased awareness and change adoption.
• Managed business intelligence from cross functional teams to support critical short and long-term decision-making.
• Led the business operations transformation and change initiatives, ensuring alignment with the executive strategic vision.
• Managed and fostered relationships with key stakeholders, affiliates, and vendors. Renegotiated contracts with 5 external partners to minimize costs to the organization resulting in savings of $85K in the first year.

Amgen Corporate Strategy & Development
Strategy and Business Operations Senior Manager
4/2019 - 5/2021
Oversaw development, implementation, and change management activities of Global Supply Chain. Enabled the adoption of new technologies and processes by encouraging leadership alignment, understanding organizational impacts and developing appropriate interventions to minimize business disruption.
• Managed a product team of 35 FTEs to develop and implement new visualization capabilities for Operations key performance indictors using Agile methodology.
• Developed an organizational readiness, change management plan and impact assessment for the implementation of a technology replacement for monitoring key performance indicators which impacted 3,000 employees.
• Improved costs and speed by establishing goals and metrics that accelerated large-scale technical implementations from 50 days to a record-breaking average of 25 days while increasing customer satisfaction from 55% to 90%.
• Developed and presented executive level communications and presentations to senior leadership.

Amgen Corporate Strategy & Development
Change Management Manager – Transformation Office
11/2017 - 4/2019
Change Management lead for Amgen Productivity Company Wide Initiative designed to return over $100M in operating costs in 2 years back to the company.
• Led the change management strategy for the implementation of Productivity into Operations, resulting in a $55M savings in the first year.
• Design and led workshops with senior leadership to develop a shared vision and aligned future state strategy, increasing buy-in and new technology adoption by 35%.
• Created strategy with senior management to implement key performance indicators across the organization, which resulted in a significant increase in productivity and efficiency and a reduction in waste.
• Led change agent network of 50 mid-level to senior managers to transition to new ways of working and ensure new technology is effectively and sustainably integrated into the business.

Amgen Operations
Strategy and Operations Senior Associate
5/2016 - 11/2017
Led the strategy and business case for a $3M investment in new technology for the installation of transition analysis on chromatography columns in Drug Substance Manufacturing, resulting in a potential cost savings of millions, a significant reduction in risk and product waste, and to ensure product supply to the market.
• Developed Manufacturing Cycle Time Reports to seek sustainable continuous improvement opportunities.
• Project Management, change management and facilitation support for 7 senior leadership teams.
• Stakeholder workshop facilitation and goal setting for Clinical Operations and Manufacturing teams.