Value and Access Insights Associate Director, Obesity

Career Category

Government Affairs

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.

Value and Access Insights Associate Director, Obesity

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will partner with Global and US Value & Access, US Coverage & Pricing, Market Access, Patient Access, MariTide US commercial team, and CD&A to deliver business analytics, dashboards, and launch-ready tools to assist the MariTide Coverage & Pricing leads with deal modeling, segmentation, pull-through and price elasticity capabilities at launch.   

In the face of a US health care system growing more complex day-by-day, we must constantly adapt and evolve our strategies to ensure our patients have appropriate access to our medicines.  The US Value & Access (V&A) Insights Associate Director will play a critical role in monitoring, diagnosing, and addressing payer obstacles and challenges.  In this role, you will partner with US Payer Marketing teams to build a deep understanding of the US managed markets environment for Obesity products.  You will provide integrated analysis combining multiple primary and secondary data sources to uncover deep insights that will guide payer, access, and reimbursement strategies.   

Flexible Commuter role to Thousand Oaks, CA office. You will work on-site a minimum of 2 days a week.

Responsibilities: 

• Build upon existing, targeted payer control deep-dive analyses (e.g. CVS Zepbound exclusion, oral steps) and integrate into weekly NBRx/TRx tracking 
• Evaluate partner capabilities to generate and share actionable pricing, coverage, demand and affordability data to inform coverage and pricing strategies for reimbursed segment 
• Build Obesity-specific modules within US V&A contracting deal modeling platforms (Contracting-IQ), building on efforts in 1H ’26 to incorporate Obesity market data into the analog library 
• Triangulate data sources (Clarivate, MMIT, partner data) to refine employer segmentation and targeting 
• Design and build Employer-specific modules within Contracting-IQ to support direct employer contracting 
• Build CAP-AI for Obesity for dynamic copay / patient access support, including interplay with cash 
• Partner with Payer Marketing and Pricing/Contracting and Brand Marketing teams to build and prioritize analytics and insights plan in support of value and access strategy for MariTide. 
• Understand pharmaceutical ecosystem and data sets including medical and pharmacy claims (ex. IQVIA LAAD, Symphony Claims), prescription (ex. IQVIA NPA), outlet (ex. IQVIA DDD) and Payor Coverage (MMIT, Clarivate) 

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 collaborator with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree and 3 years in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Engineering (any), Science (any), Statistics or related field 

OR

Master’s degree and 5 years in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Engineering (any), Science (any), Statistics or related field 

OR

Bachelor’s degree and 7 years in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Engineering (any), Science (any), Statistics or related field 

OR

Associate’s degree and 12 years in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Engineering (any), Science (any), Statistics or related field 

OR

High school diploma / GED and 14 year