Senior Manager, Contracts & Pricing Execution

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.

Senior Manager, Contracts & Pricing Execution

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world! In this vital role the Senior Manager, Contracts and Pricing Execution (CPE) is a key member of the Contract Analytics, Pricing and Execution (CAPE) team within US Value and Access. The CAPE team is responsible for the commercial and government pricing and contracting activities for a book of business in excess of $20 billion annually.

The CPE team is responsible for timely and accurate implementation of discounts for contracted customers at Amgen which includes ensuring compliance against applicable Commercial contracts, validating and processing data from multiple sources including third parties, disputing and resolving data discrepancies, calculating contract performance and adhering to Amgen’s Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) reporting requirements. This position will be responsible for managing a team of analysts dedicated to the Payer space and will guide the team through the evolving landscape to ensuring Amgen’s success in the Commercial Healthcare Market.

Key responsibilities

Partner with Contract Development, Market Access, CAPE, IS Business Analysts, Coverage and Pricing, and others to assess and influence discount design to ensure operational feasibility within Amgen's commercial contract payment systems and determine impact to existing resources or business processes

• Manage Payer team through regular Revenue System upgrade projects and ensure Payer business requirements are met through system requirements development and/or effective business processes
• Work with external vendors to define capabilities required for data collection and integration with Amgen applications
• Provide innovative and responsive contracting strategies with providers, payers, and a broader, more complex and evolving customer base
• Document processes to support the maintenance of contracting strategies and provide leadership with impact analysis summarizing resourcing needs and timing of key activities
• Provide recommendations for application enhancements or the use of other tools to improve processes and support contracting strategies
• Maintain policies, risks and controls associated with Amgen’s SOX reporting requirements and other reporting and certification requirements
• Establish and maintain effective relationships with GCPS business users, IS, Coverage and Pricing, Accounting/Finance, Compliance, internal legal counsel, other cross-functional groups, external partners and suppliers to successfully manage team deliverables
• Document processes to support the maintenance of contracting strategies and provide leadership with impact analysis summarizing resourcing needs and timing of key activities
• Review and understand current and proposed legislation, rules and releases and the associated impact to the Payer Discounts team
• Design comprehensive solutions to anticipate and address partner needs based on organizational strategy and vision
• Drive the development of innovative solutions and processes including the development of new approaches for projects, applications and department service offerings
• Coach, motivate and provide career and technical advice to direct reports and others in the department

What we expect of you

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

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate and 2 years of Project Management/transaction processing operations/leadership experience

Or

Master’s degree and 6 years of Project Management/transaction processing operations/leadership experience

Or

Bachelor’s de