Contracts & Pricing Strategy, Associate Director

Amgen • Thousand Oaks, CA

19h

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. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline of medicines to treat cancer, heart disease, inflammatory conditions, rare diseases, and obesity and obesity-related conditions. 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.

Requirements

• Doctorate degree and 3 years of pricing, contracting, market access, finance, accounting, analytics or sales and marketing operations experience; OR Master’s degree and 5 years of pricing, contracting, market access, finance, accounting, analytics or sales and marketing operations experience; OR Bachelor’s degree and 7 years of pricing, contracting, market access, finance, accounting, analytics or sales and marketing operations experience; OR Associate’s degree and 12 years of pricing, contracting, market access, finance, accounting, analytics or sales and marketing operations experience; OR High school diploma or GED and 14 years of pricing, contracting, market access, finance, accounting, analytics or sales and marketing operations experience.

Nice To Haves

• Substantial U.S. pharmaceutical pricing, payer or PBM contracting, GTN forecasting or launch financial-planning experience, ideally in a high-volume chronic or cardiometabolic market.
• Demonstrated ownership of an enterprise forecast or economic model that integrates assumptions from multiple business owners and supports senior decisions.
• Experience with reimbursed, cash, employer, affordability, trade and government flows and their implications for GTN and price reporting.
• Ability to govern eligible-life and membership cohorts, channel migration, transaction economics, data lineage and model controls.
• Strong executive communication and influence without direct authority; advanced Excel and enterprise planning or deal-modeling experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of U.S. pricing and contracting recommendations for MariTide across commercial, Medicare and Medicaid channels across all payers and pharmacy benefit managers (PBM)
• Build account and portfolio economics, bid and negotiation scenarios, access-price trade-offs and guardrails.
• Partner with Coverage, Market Access, Contract Development and Contracting and Pricing Execution to translate approved strategy into executable contract terms.
• Lead the Obesity latest estimate discount rate (LEDR) process and maintain the integrated gross to net (GTN) and net-sales view used in launch planning, quarterly business reviews and long-range planning.
• Reconcile rebates, fees, affordability, trade, government and channel-mix assumptions; run base, upside and downside scenarios; document key dependencies; and explain actual-to-plan variances and changes in forward assumptions.
• Partner with the Consumer Director and Employer Lead Director to incorporate approved retail-pharmacy, cash-reimbursement and Direct to Employer (DTE) assumptions into gross to net (GTN).
• Model patient contribution, pharmacy and fulfillment fees, employer and member contributions, program fees, eligible lives, sites, enrollment, activation, utilization, persistence and ramp.
• Govern membership inputs and reconcile patient migration and population overlap across channels.
• Translate Global value and pricing considerations into U.S. launch scenarios and communicate U.S. channel implications to Global partners.
• Develop assumptions, analogs, sensitivity ranges and decision triggers where actuals do not exist.
• Extend the pricing and gross to net (GTN) architecture to future indications and sequencing decisions as populations, evidence, benefit management, utilization and channel mix evolve.
• Lead cross-functional pricing workstreams with Finance, Forecasting, Accounting, Government Pricing, Legal, Compliance, Privacy, Trade, Brand and Market Access.
• Establish common model definitions, documentation and review cadence; identify duplicate-discount, classification, reporting, privacy and channel-conflict risks; and present clear recommendations, alternatives and unresolved issues to the Director and senior governance.

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: Mid Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree