Career Category Information Systems Job Description 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. Event Technology Specialist What you will do Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role, you will be responsible for planning and execution of large-scale on campus events, virtual & hybrid events. This role will be responsible for customer engagement, scheduling and day of event support. The candidate should be extremely meticulous and have hands-on experience, scheduling, planning, and delivering high quality events. The candidate should have the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with competing demands. This role will service and interact with a diverse group of important clients including our most senior executives as well as internal contacts at all levels. This position is vital for our team to provide world class customer experience. Strong interpersonal skills and subject matter expertise in video conferencing and streaming technology are a must. What we expect of you We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek is an individual with these qualifications. Basic
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree and 2-5 years of engineering experience and/or event production experience
Preferred Qualifications
2-5 years’ experience scheduling and planning events for Fortune 500 companies.
Experience
with virtual and hybrid technology (Vbrick webcast, Webex).
Experience
with Microsoft Office tools (MS Teams, Outlook).
Experience
with event show calling.
Experience
with video editing software.
Experience
supporting live events in large auditoriums. Project management skills with demonstrated ability to deliver results. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or Life Sciences. Strong leadership presence and interpersonal and communication skills (written and oral).
Experience
managing technical teams. In-depth knowledge of Agile processes and principles.
Experience
with the ITIL process framework and outsourced resource support models. Established habit of proactive thinking and behavior and the desire and ability to self-start, learn, and apply new technologies. Thorough understanding related to collaboration tools, computing devices, and unified communications products applied at Amgen. Working knowledge in installing, upgrading, imaging, and supporting all company desktops, laptops, MacBook hardware, iOS devices, printers, and AV equipment. MS Office 365 support knowledge, including Outlook and MS Teams support. . Amgen is committed to unlocking the potential of biology for patients suffering from serious illnesses by discovering, developing, manufacturing and delivering innovative human therapeutics. This approach begins by using tools like advanced human genetics to unravel the complexities of disease and understand the fundamentals of human biology. Amgen focuses on areas of high unmet medical need and leverages its biologics manufacturing expertise to strive for solutions that improve health outcomes and dramatically improve people's lives. A biotechnology pioneer since 1980, Amgen has grown to be one of the world's leading independent biotechnology companies, has reached millions of patients around the world and is developing a pipeline of medicines with breakaway potential. For more information, visit www.amgen.com and follow us on www.twitter.com/amgen