US Value and Access Insights Innovation Lead

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. 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.

US Value and Access Insights Innovation Lead

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s 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.

Director will focus on driving cross portfolio innovative projects across various pillars of the insights team. Working closely with the Executive Director of the Value & Access Analytics, the individual in this role will help elevate the analytics capabilities of the team and provide strategic oversight for cross portfolio initiatives at the forefront of solving the US Value & Access team’s biggest challenges using cutting edge technology, positioning Amgen as a leader across industry.

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 team’s 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 against 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. You’ll regularly operate at the intersection of business leaders and the team of data scientists / technical experts and will excel at being able to “speak the language” 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 team’s work is understood and resonates with cross-functional commercial leadership.

Responsibilities

• Business ownership of contracting IQ / PEP-AI – Rollout / upgrades to the contracting platform, CAP-AI – 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 TA’s / brand and bring in innovation

• Build and maintain strong relationships with cross functional partners; proactively seeks buy-in and provides ongoing support to address business needs

• Lead a team of 15+ resources across the US and India, ensuring effective deployment of the team against our goals, supporting the team’s 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.