R&D Portfolio Forecasting and Analysis Sr. Manager

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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.

R&D Portfolio Forecasting and Analysis Sr. Manager

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will work toward multiple goals that will enable outstanding medicines to move through the commercialization pipeline bringing therapies to patients.

Amgen is seeking an R&D Portfolio Forecasting and Analysis Sr Manager to join the Research and Development Strategy and Operations organization. In this role, you will provide R&D functional management with resource capacity forecasts, based on supply and demand analysis, to enable effective operational planning & decision making. You will provide stewardship of R&D resource algorithms, and supply tracking processes, to drive a systematic methodology and tool for forecasting functional resources in support of functional planning, portfolio management and process efficiency monitoring.

You will be part of the larger corporate mission of bringing medicines to patients with unmet medical needs every day. Our scale is global and supports our R&D organization around the world. Please join an outstanding team that delivers for our partners!

Key responsibilities:

• Oversee delivery of resource forecasts (demand and supply) with coordinated analysis to guide appropriate workforce planning in support of the current portfolio or for the evaluation of business cases
• Create new resource algorithms in partnership with functional leadership to expand the number of roles and functions with high functioning demand equations.
• Develop strong working relationships with functional leadership, senior management, finance, and portfolio managers
• Apply strategic data-based insight to develop business recommendations or objectives to align with future needs
• Partner with functional leads to evaluate data, anticipate questions from leadership, and provide premeditated context and insights in response
• Drive system and process innovation within the team and the larger organization
• Coordinate functional stakeholder engagement to the development and maintenance of resource demand algorithms, workforce supply, and review of role-based capacity
• Proactively communicate decision outcomes, resourcing gaps, and data continuity concerns to functional leads
• Adapt to a constantly evolving, fast-paced and often ambiguous environment
• Partner with finance and functional budget gatekeepers to embed resource budget true up, impact and variance analysis into the resource forecasting process
• Provide direction, coaching and mentorship for staff to deliver quality workforce planning outputs

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek is an inspirational leader with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree and 2 years of directly related experience OR
• Master’s degree and 6 years of directly related experience OR
• Bachelor’s degree and 8 years of directly related experience OR
• Associate degree and 10 years of directly related experience OR
• High School diploma/GED and 12 years of directly related experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in workforce planning including head count supply and demand maintenance/oversight and resource equation development
• Advanced user of a data analytics software stack (Excel, Access, Spotfire, Tableau, Smartsheet, Alteryx, etc…)
• Associates or advanced degree in engineering, life science, management science (decision analysis, operations research, statistics, strategic planning), finance, or economics
• Experience with resourcing applications (Planisware preferable)
• 9+ years work experience in life sciences