Contracts & Pricing Execution Senior Associate

Career Category

Sales & Marketing Operations

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. 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.

Contracts & Pricing Execution Senior Associate

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. The Senior Associate, Contracts and Pricing Execution is a key member of the Managed Care Rebates (MCO) team with Amgen’s US Value and Access (US V&A) organization.

This position is primarily responsible for providing data and analytical support across the MCO team, which includes ensuring complete and accurate processing of payer contractual rebates in the Global Contracts and Pricing System (GCPS) to support the timely calculation, execution, and reporting of contracted discounts extended to customers. This position operates within a fast-paced environment and closely collaborates with several cross-functional groups including IS, Payer Contracting, Coverage and Pricing, Market Access, Government Pricing, Finance and Legal to ensure the discount process, documentation, and execution of contractual managed care rebates are performed in accordance with US Contracts Operation and Government Pricing SOPs, Sarbanes Oxley, and other policies and procedures that impact the Contract Operations area.

• Develop spreadsheet models for moderately complex financial analyses
• Deliver formal presentations
• Lead and participate in special projects
• Participate in rebate contract development and review
• Collaborate with IS to assist in system requirements development, identify/recommend process improvements and lead implementation efforts.
• Participate in system implementation efforts currently ongoing on a new rebate management system
• Work with vendor in business testing of functional requirements and documentation of formal testing,
• Communicate issues and/or defects
• Supply insights in ongoing project meetings.

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek is a customer focused individual with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

Master’s degree

Or

Bachelor’s degree and 2 years of sales, marketing, finance, contracts and/or project management experience

Or

Associate’s degree and 6 years of sales, marketing, finance, contracts and/or project management experience

Or

High school diploma / GED and 8 years of sales, marketing, finance, contracts and/or project management experience

Preferred Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree

• 4+ years of experience in data analytics, sales & marketing, finance/accounting, contracts or project management
• Experience in a pharmaceutical/biotech environment
• Demonstrated track record of increasing responsibility
• Very strong computer & M/S Office skills
• Intermediate to advanced MS Excel skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Thinks strategically (can see the big picture) while delivering results at the appropriate level of detail
• Tolerance and navigating through ambiguous situations
• Strong presentation skills
• Team player, looks for ways to support team members
• Ability to take the initiative, problem solve, work independently, and exercise appropriate business judgment.
• Strong investigative, and organizational skills to prioritize multiple competing interests.
• Data monitoring, analysis and validation skills
• Effectively represents their team in a complex matrix organization with cross-functional groups
• Ability to Interpret and apply regulations associated with relevant legal issues

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 comp