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Since 1980, weâve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the worldâs toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas âOncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Diseaseâ we reach millions of patients each year. As a member of the Amgen team, youâll 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, youâll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.
US V&A Insights - Innovation - Senior Manager
What you will do
Letâs do this. Letâs change the world. In this vital role you will lead a team driving innovation within the V&A Analytics insights organization with best-in-class analytics to help develop better V&A strategies and tactics and enable successful access strategy for new product launches. This individual with guidance from the Director USV&A Innovation, will focus on driving cross portfolio innovative projects across various pillars of the insights team.
You will partner with USV&A, AI&D, and Tech leadership to ensure product teams like Contracting IQ / CAP-AI are applying cutting edge data science methodologies to deliver against our ambitions. You will bring deep expertise in USV&A data sets, business challenges, and an understanding of the ecosystem we navigate to guide teams and identify innovative approaches and solutions. You will empower and support the team in translating business requirements into methodologies, rapidly testing hypotheses, and readying proven solutions for scale. You will be the teamâs expert on the USV&A data ecosystem, and a key source of innovative hypotheses and approaches.
Your ability to understand big picture business challenges and the data and analytics implications of solutioning them will be critical to your success in this role, as will an ability to independently move through ambiguity and think creatively to define innovative solutions to long-standing challenges. This includes partnering with a cross-functional team of business and technical resources to define and drive against execution roadmaps. Youâll regularly operate at the intersection of business leaders and the team of data scientists / technical experts and will excel at being able to âspeak the languageâ of both groups to ensure solutions are fit-for-purpose and high impact. You are a highly effective communicator and storyteller, ensuring the potential impact of the teamâs work is understood and resonates with cross-functional commercial leadership.
Responsibilities
Business ownership of one of the platforms, contracting IQ / PEP-AI â Rollout / upgrades to the contracting platform, CAP-AI â Rollout / upgrades and expansion
Drive user adoption and expand the tool capabilities to medical benefit products including provider contracting and ASP calculation
Drive analytics / insights and integrate multiple data sources to identify potential impact of any policy changes from the government, market events like M&A and other interconnected events
Constructively challenge teams by providing disconfirming information and encouraging
Innovative Problem Solving
Looks for opportunities to streamline analytics across different TAâs / brand and bring in innovation
Build and maintain strong relationships with cross functional partners; proactively seek buy-in and provides ongoing support to address business needs
Lead a team of 5+ resources across the US and India, ensuring effective deployment of the team against our goals, supporting the teamâs continued professional development, and providing coaching as needed.
Technical Expertise & Delivery
Engage hands-on with technical teams in development, deployment, and application of applied analytics, predictive analytics, and prescriptive analytics.
Engage hands-on and utilize technical skills such as hypothesis testing, machine learning and retrieval processes to apply statistical and data mining techniques.
Partner with initiative technical leadership to develop and integrate custom applications, intelligent dashboards, and automated workflows that incorporate AI capabilities to enhance decision-making and efficiency.
Collaborate with technical teams to translate the business needs into technical specifications, particularly focusing on AI-driven automation and insights.
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 manager with these qualifications.
Basic Qualifications:
Doctorate degree and 2 years of Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Engineering (any), Science (any), Statistics or related field experience OR
Masterâs degree and 4 years of Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Engineering (any), Science (any), Statistics or related field experience OR
Bachelorâs degree and 6 years of Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Engineering (any), Science (any), Statistics or related field experience OR
Associateâs degree and 10 years of Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Engineering (any), Science (any), Statistics or related field experience OR
High school diploma / GED and 12 years of Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Engineering (any), Science (any), Statistics or related field experience
Preferred Qualifications:
Prior experience in contracts and pricing, direct payer experience or value marketing and have a good foundational understanding of the US payer environment and a strong foundation in the U.S. healthcare market
BA degree and 6 years of experience within relevant qualifications
Excellent conceptual problem-solving skills with demonstrated ability to bring structure to
vaguely defined problems, pragmatic problem-solving approach, and manage execution
Exceptional written/oral communication skills and executive presence across functions and across different levels of leadership
Authoritative command of complexity and ambiguity; ability to see the big picture; ability to collect, digest and assemble information to enable relevant business analyses
Strong leadership skills with a demonstrated ability to influence different styles
8+ years of healthcare experience in the biopharmaceutical industry, health care, and/or strategy consulting with specific experience and expertise in coverage, access and reimbursement drivers impacting the biopharmaceutical industry
High degree of analytical and problem-solving skills
Exhibits strong understanding of business strategies
Experience in MLOps practices and tools (e.g., MLflow, Kubeflow, Airflow); Experience in DevOps tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD)
Proficiency in Python and relevant ML libraries (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn)
Knowledge of NLP techniques for text analysis and sentiment analysis
Experience in analyzing time-series data for forecasting and trend analysis
Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
Experience with Databricks platform for data analytics and MLOps
What you can expect of us
As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for your professional and personal growth and well-being. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, weâll support your journey every step of the way.
The expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is posted. Actual salary will vary based on several factors including but not limited to, relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.
In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan, based on eligibility, comprising of health and welfare plans for staff and eligible dependents, financial plans with opportunities to save towards retirement or other goals, work/life balance, and career development opportunities that may include:
A comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions, group medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts
A discretionary annual bonus program, or for field sales representatives, a sales-based incentive plan
Stock-based long-term incentives
Award-winning time-off plans
Flexible work models where possible. Refer to the Work Location Type in the job posting to see if this applies.
Apply now and make a lasting impact with the Amgen team.
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