Lisa Sherman

Background

About Lisa Sherman

Highly motivated and independent Amgen employee with twenty-two years of experience, including fifteen years in Discovery Research, with an immunology/inflammation focus. The last seven years I've expanded my expertise and knowledge in R&D Strategy & Operations, as a Senior Manager in both Supplier Management & Performance Analytics, with external and internal relationship and project management focus across Research, Development and Medical, and Strategy and Performance Excellence working on large R&D transformation initiatives to drive and deliver strategy and performance excellence. Recognized by peers as a strong, results-driven, balanced strategic team player/partner with effective communication and organizational skills. Driven to expand knowledge, skill-sets, and operations/project management experience. Take pride in my ability to learn quickly, apply relevant knowledge to tasks, work in an agile manner, and deliver results. Strong at building cross-functional relationships and highly-productive teams internally, and with external partners. Very people-focused from both team building and collaboration, and skills building perspectives. I have extensive Project Management, Change Management and Implementation, and Continuous Improvement experience participating in & leading a number of impactful initiatives that affect functions across R&D and enterprise-wide. I take pride in having built the relationships across all the Research and Development functions, continuing to expand my network. The roles I have had have given me the opportunity to continue and expand multiple cross-functional relationships, continuously learn business processes, enhance and improve my project management/overall skill-set, and have larger impact within the R&D community and corporate-wide to deliver medicines faster to patients. Current Skills/Expertise: Highly effective communication skills, organized, active and enthusiastic team player, cross-functional and intra-team collaboration, problem solver, agile, adaptable and flexible. Previous scientific work focused on Respiratory/Inflammation Research for Respiratory and Autoimmune indications, taking pride in developing/processing human lung tissue using the Precision Cut Lung Slice (PCLS) Platform and investigating gene expression signatures within these samples using purified RNA and Taqman Low Density Array (TLDA) cards. Also, most recently focused on Immuno-Oncology targets.