Contracts & Pricing Execution, Senior Manager

Amgen • Thousand Oaks, CA

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About The Position

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. Contracts & Pricing Execution, Senior Manager What you will do Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will be a key member of US Value and Access (US V&A) within the Contracts & Pricing Execution Team (CPE). The Senior Manager, 340B Operations is a key leader within the Payer Operations team, accountable for driving 340B program execution with a strong focus on operational excellence, compliance, and data-driven insights. This role partners closely with cross-functional teams including Legal, Value Access & Insights, Commercial Execution Team including Payer, Chargebacks Operations, and Membership and Government Pricing, as well as external stakeholders and third-party administrators to ensure effective and compliant operations. This position will be responsible for managing staff dedicated to the 340B program and will guide the team through the evolving landscape to ensure Amgen’s success in the Commercial Healthcare Market. The ideal candidate brings 340B expertise, strong chargeback and rebate operations experience, and a proven ability to present complex data structures and lead teams ·Develop spreadsheet models for moderately complex financial analyses, deliver formal presentations, lead special projects, participate in rebate contract development and review ·Provide innovative solutions with a broader, more complex, and evolving 340B landscape ·Document processes to support the maintenance of the 340B program 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 reporting ·Develop and maintain controls related to Amgen’s SOX requirements and other reporting and certification requirements ·Establish and maintain effective relationships with Model N business users, Legal, DTI, Coverage and Pricing, Accounting/Finance, Compliance, and other cross-functional groups, external partners, and suppliers to successfully manage team deliverables ·Prepare and present regular updates on 340B activities to senior leadership ·Work with external vendors to define capabilities required for 340B data collection, processing, reporting and integration with Amgen systems ·Actively pursue continuing education to understand current and proposed legislation, rules and regulatory developments related to 340B and communicates the associated impact to the Contracts and Pricing Execution team ·Design comprehensive solutions to anticipate and address partner needs based on organizational strategy and vision What we expect of you We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The detail oriented professional we seek is a [type of person] with these qualifications.

Requirements

• Doctorate degree and 2 years of project management/transaction processing operations and/or leadership experience OR Master’s degree and 4 years of project management/transaction processing operations and/or leadership experience OR Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of project management/transaction processing operations and/or leadership experience OR Associate’s degree and 10 years of project management/transaction processing operations and/or leadership experience OR High school diploma / GED and 12 years of project management/transaction processing operations and/or leadership experience

Nice To Haves

• Experienced knowledge of the 340B and/or broader Government programs landscape
• Payer experience and/or pharma/biotech experience with an emphasis in commercial operations
• Executive-level communication skills, including building and delivering senior-leadership presentations and translating complex data/processes into clear, concise summaries across multiple systems
• Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving: synthesizes information, navigates ambiguity, and enables actionable business analysis
• Supervisory/people-management experience and demonstrated growth in responsibility and leadership
• Strong financial acumen/background
• Proven ability to lead multiple complex projects concurrently through completion
• Effective collaborator in fast-paced, fluid, cross-functional, matrixed environments
• High attention to detail and reporting accuracy while maintaining strong conceptual focus
• Identifies and implements cross-functional process improvement opportunities
• Applies sound judgment to support organization structure

Responsibilities

• Develop spreadsheet models for moderately complex financial analyses, deliver formal presentations, lead special projects, participate in rebate contract development and review
• Provide innovative solutions with a broader, more complex, and evolving 340B landscape
• Document processes to support the maintenance of the 340B program 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 reporting
• Develop and maintain controls related to Amgen’s SOX requirements and other reporting and certification requirements
• Establish and maintain effective relationships with Model N business users, Legal, DTI, Coverage and Pricing, Accounting/Finance, Compliance, and other cross-functional groups, external partners, and suppliers to successfully manage team deliverables
• Prepare and present regular updates on 340B activities to senior leadership
• Work with external vendors to define capabilities required for 340B data collection, processing, reporting and integration with Amgen systems
• Actively pursue continuing education to understand current and proposed legislation, rules and regulatory developments related to 340B and communicates the associated impact to the Contracts and Pricing Execution team
• Design comprehensive solutions to anticipate and address partner needs based on organizational strategy and vision

Benefits

• A comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions, group medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts
• A discretionary annual bonus program, or for field sales representatives, a sales-based incentive plan
• Stock-based long-term incentives
• Award-winning time-off plans
• Flexible work models where possible.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior