US Value and Access Insights Innovation Lead

Amgen • Thousand Oaks, CA

2d

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. US Value and Access Insights Innovation Lead What you will do Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will lead a team driving innovation within the V&A Analytics insights organization with best-in-class analytics to help develop better V&A strategies and tactics and enable successful access strategy for new product launches. Director will focus on driving cross portfolio innovative projects across various pillars of the insights team. Working closely with the Executive Director of the Value & Access Analytics, the individual in this role will help elevate the analytics capabilities of the team and provide strategic oversight for cross portfolio initiatives at the forefront of solving the US Value & Access team’s biggest challenges using cutting edge technology, positioning Amgen as a leader across industry. You will partner with USV&A, AI&D, and Tech leadership to ensure product teams like Contracting IQ / CAP-AI are applying cutting edge data science methodologies to deliver against our ambitions. You will bring deep expertise in USV&A data sets, business challenges, and an understanding of the ecosystem we navigate to guide teams and identify innovative approaches and solutions. You will empower and support the team in translating business requirements into methodologies, rapidly testing hypotheses, and readying proven solutions for scale. You will be the team’s expert on the USV&A data ecosystem, and a key source of innovative hypotheses and approaches Your ability to understand big picture business challenges and the data and analytics implications of solutioning against them will be critical to your success in this role, as will an ability to independently move through ambiguity and think creatively to define innovative solutions to long-standing challenges. This includes partnering with a cross-functional team of business and technical resources to define and drive against execution roadmaps. You’ll regularly operate at the intersection of business leaders and the team of data scientists / technical experts and will excel at being able to “speak the language” of both groups to ensure solutions are fit-for-purpose and high impact. You are a highly effective communicator and storyteller, ensuring the potential impact of the team’s work is understood and resonates with cross-functional commercial leadership.

Requirements

• Doctorate degree and 4 years of Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Engineering (any), Science (any), Statistics or related field experience OR Master’s degree and 7 years of Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Engineering (any), Science (any), Statistics or related field experience OR Bachelor’s degree and 9 years of Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Engineering (any), Science (any), Statistics or related field experience

Nice To Haves

• Deep understanding of US pharmaceutical ecosystem, patient support services offerings, and USV&A strategies and business challenges.
• Expertise in statistical techniques and hypothesis testing, experience with regression analysis, clustering and classification.
• Strong foundation in machine learning algorithms and techniques.
• Proven track record of guiding large teams from business challenge, to hypothesis testing, to PoC, to production and scale.
• Expertise in and experience working within USV&A platforms (e.g., Model N, Validata) and with USV&A datasets (e.g., (SP, IQVIA, wholesaler).
• Prior experience in contracts and pricing, direct payer experience or value marketing and have a good foundational understanding of the US payer environment and a strong foundation in the U.S. healthcare market
• Excellent conceptual problem-solving skills with demonstrated ability to bring structure to vaguely defined problems, pragmatic problem-solving approach, and manage execution
• Exceptional written/oral communication skills and executive presence across functions and across different levels of leadership
• Authoritative command of complexity and ambiguity; ability to see the big picture; ability to collect, digest and assemble information to enable relevant business analyses
• Strong leadership skills with a demonstrated ability to influence different styles
• 8+ years of healthcare experience in the biopharmaceutical industry, health care, and/or strategy consulting with specific experience and expertise in coverage, access and reimbursement drivers impacting the biopharmaceutical industry
• High degree of analytical and problem-solving skills
• Exhibits strong understanding of business strategies
• Experience in MLOps practices and tools (e.g., MLflow, Kubeflow, Airflow); Experience in DevOps tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD)
• Proficiency in Python and relevant ML libraries (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn)
• Knowledge of NLP techniques for text analysis and sentiment analysis
• Experience in analyzing time-series data for forecasting and trend analysis
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
• Experience with Databricks platform for data analytics and MLOps

Responsibilities

• Business ownership of contracting IQ / PEP-AI – Rollout / upgrades to the contracting platform, CAP-AI – Rollout / upgrades and expansion
• Drive user adoption and expand the tool capabilities to medical benefit products including provider contracting and ASP calculation
• Drive analytics / insights and integrate multiple data sources to identify potential impact of any policy changes from the government, market events like M&A and other interconnected events
• Constructively challenge teams by providing disconfirming information and encouraging Innovative Problem Solving
• Looks for opportunities to streamline analytics across different TA’s / brand and bring in innovation
• Build and maintain strong relationships with cross functional partners; proactively seeks buy-in and provides ongoing support to address business needs
• Lead a team of 15+ resources across the US and India, ensuring effective deployment of the team against our goals, supporting the team’s continued professional development, and providing coaching as needed.
• Engage hands-on with technical teams in development, deployment, and application of applied analytics, predictive analytics, and prescriptive analytics.
• Engage hands-on and utilize technical skills such as hypothesis testing, machine learning and retrieval processes to apply statistical and data mining techniques.
• Partner with initiative technical leadership to develop and integrate custom applications, intelligent dashboards, and automated workflows that incorporate AI capabilities to enhance decision-making and efficiency.
• Collaborate with technical teams to translate the business needs into technical specifications, particularly focusing on AI-driven automation and insights.

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: Director