Budget Execution Manager, US

Career Category

Project Management

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.

Budget Execution Manager - US

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will lead and facilitate timely and quality delivery of the end-to-end process of budget execution for several key functions within our Research and Development organization. Partnering with functional leadership and colleagues in R&D Finance, key deliverables include annual budget planning, quarterly forecast updates, and close activities, monthly leadership updates, and analytical support on spending trends and resource utilization. This role will also provide support for business case generation, guide our contract management team on escalated procure-to-pay issues, and provide project management of functional or cross-functional initiatives. This individual serves as a trusted expert partner for both finance and the business function in translating business priorities into financial forecasts. The R&D Business Operations team is committed to continuous improvement and serving our ever-changing, fast-paced business functions with excellence.

Responsibilities

• Lead and facilitate annual budget planning collection and related analysis
• Ongoing maintenance of budget plans and reconciliation with actual spend
• Lead contributor for quarterly forecast updates and close activities
• Coordinate regular functional leadership updates
• Provide ad hoc analytical support for spending trends, resource utilization, and variance analysis
• Support efficiency initiatives and business case generation
• Provide expert budget execution support throughout the procure-to-pay process

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 leader with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree OR
• Master’s degree and 2 years of biotech/pharma-related business operations/financial analytics experience OR
• Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of biotech/pharma-related business operations/financial analytics experience OR
• Associate’s degree and 8 years of biotech/pharma-related business operations/financial analytics experience OR
• High school diploma / GED and 10 years of biotech/pharma-related business operations/financial analytics experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in either business, finance, or life sciences
• Experience with financial reporting and forecasting
• General familiarity with the drug development process and various business units within an R&D function
• Demonstrated proficiency with data visualization tools (Tableau) and collaboration tools (Smartsheet, MS Teams)
• Proficient with MS Office suite and advanced capabilities in Excel
• Experience with enterprise tools SAP, Ariba, Anaplan
• Ability to thrive working with detailed information and drawing key insights from trends
• Ability to thrive in a complex and matrixed environment, to collaborate and coordinate with individuals at various levels, to influence others effectively, and to handle multiple responsibilities simultaneously
• Excellent communicator able to develop and deliver communications that facilitate organizational change in an efficient, effective, and expedient manner
• Natural builder of relationships with collaborators and partners alike
• Quick learner who is proactive and takes initiative

What you can expect from 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 com