Business Performance Associate Director

Career Category

Corporate Services

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.

Business Performance Associate Director

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world.

As the Business Performance Associate Director (GMST), you will play a key role in enabling network-wide manufacturing performance by integrating strategic financial leadership, execution excellence, enterprise performance visibility, and digitally enabled measurement systems. This role supports the evolution of Amgen’s global manufacturing network by translating operational execution into clear, actionable financial insights.

The Global Manufacturing Strategy and Technology (GMST) organization serves as a trusted central resource that connects the manufacturing network across Operations. GMST drives alignment and collaboration by enabling consistent performance management, fostering cross-functional partnership, and accelerating agile, value-driven change through strategy, execution excellence, and innovative technologies.

In this role, you will integrate financial leadership, productivity optimization, cost-of-sales improvement, and digital transformation to deliver consistent financial reporting, operational visibility, and measurable value across the global manufacturing network.

Reporting to the GMST Lead, this role is both strategic and technical, leading network-wide programs that deliver measurable financial outcomes through performance management, innovative technology deployment, cost strategy, and execution. You will partner closely with site and functional FP&A teams and collaborate broadly across Operations functions (no direct reports).

This role ensures that manufacturing fulfillment, productivity, and cost-of-sales performance are consistently translated into actionable insights that enable better, faster, and more aligned decision-making across Amgen’s global manufacturing network.

Location / work model: This role is based in the U.S., with a hybrid or remote work model dependent on the candidate’s location.

Responsibilities include:

Scrap, Productivity, and Network Program Leadership:

• Serve as the Scrap and Manufacturing Process Waste Reduction Network Program Lead, including definition of measurement systems, visibility, and reporting for material, process, and performance-related waste.

• Act as Operations Productivity Lead, managing business productivity process implementation and ongoing evolution across the network.

• Partner with Site FP&A teams to align definitions, standardize financial measures, and ensure consistent application of productivity, scrap, labor, and cost-of-sales metrics across global manufacturing sites.

• Define and drive labor efficiency and workforce utilization optimization metrics, including financial impact assessment and prioritization insights to support workforce strategy decisions.

Digital Enablement, Data Integration, and Operational Visibility:

• Lead alignment of financial and operational performance metrics across SAP S/4, MES, and emerging AI-driven analytics solutions, in partnership with Operations Finance and AI & Data teams.

• Drive automation of next-generation manufacturing performance metrics to enable scalable, timely, and decision-ready insights.

• Ensure consistency and integrity of financial inputs supporting manufacturing execution, productivity, and cost-of-sales initiatives across the global manufacturing network.

• Enable end-to-end operational and financial insight to support achievement excellence and network-level prioritization.

Performance Measurement, Cost Attribution, and Forecasting:

• Establish performance measurement systems that translate busines