Leann Sweeney

First thing I do is check our sales numbers & the news wire. I want to know how our business is doing relative to what was forecasted for the year at Amgen Canada. I want to know what other companies are doing in the biotechnology space. This allows me to direct my organization to focus its energy on the right things with the most up to date perspective. I spend a lot of my day interacting with my staff. It is very important to have an engaged and energized staff. It is my responsibility to ensure they are growing in their role, meeting expectations and aligned on priorities. I also meet several times per week with members of our cross-functional executive team. This helps me to understand across all the disciplines what is happening with our key customers/accounts and how our pipeline is moving along. I also check in about once per week with my global colleagues who are in a similar position as I to discuss their business, our shared goals and attempt to learn and share best practices.

Every day I use my STEM education! Not only do I need to understand the science of Amgen’s products but I need to understand and interpret the emerging landscape for key therapeutic areas. This understanding allows me to plan the right strategy and establish the right forecast models and performance goals. The concepts I learned through hands on lab work of hypothesis generation, observation, drawing conclusions and translating them into meaningful insights is central to what I do every hour of every day at work.