Value and Access Insights Associate Director, Obesity

Amgen • Thousand Oaks, CA

1d • $170,720 - $230,974 • Hybrid

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. Value and Access Insights Associate Director, Obesity What you will do Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will partner with Global and US Value & Access, US Coverage & Pricing, Market Access, Patient Access, MariTide US commercial team, and CD&A to deliver business analytics, dashboards, and launch-ready tools to assist the MariTide Coverage & Pricing leads with deal modeling, segmentation, pull-through and price elasticity capabilities at launch. In the face of a US health care system growing more complex day-by-day, we must constantly adapt and evolve our strategies to ensure our patients have appropriate access to our medicines. The US Value & Access (V&A) Insights Associate Director will play a critical role in monitoring, diagnosing, and addressing payer obstacles and challenges. In this role, you will partner with US Payer Marketing teams to build a deep understanding of the US managed markets environment for Obesity products. You will provide integrated analysis combining multiple primary and secondary data sources to uncover deep insights that will guide payer, access, and reimbursement strategies. Flexible Commuter role to Thousand Oaks, CA office. You will work on-site a minimum of 2 days a week.

Requirements

• Doctorate degree and 3 years in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Engineering (any), Science (any), Statistics or related field OR Master’s degree and 5 years in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Engineering (any), Science (any), Statistics or related field OR Bachelor’s degree and 7 years in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Engineering (any), Science (any), Statistics or related field OR Associate’s degree and 12 years in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Engineering (any), Science (any), Statistics or related field OR High school diploma / GED and 14 years in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Engineering (any), Science (any), Statistics or related field

Nice To Haves

• Experience with new product / indication launch especially in cardio or metabolic disease area
• Working experience on Analytics of products with Pharmacy benefit usage.
• Understanding of PBM account/formulary structure and contracting process
• 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
• 5+ 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

Responsibilities

• Build upon existing, targeted payer control deep-dive analyses (e.g. CVS Zepbound exclusion, oral steps) and integrate into weekly NBRx/TRx tracking
• Evaluate partner capabilities to generate and share actionable pricing, coverage, demand and affordability data to inform coverage and pricing strategies for reimbursed segment
• Build Obesity-specific modules within US V&A contracting deal modeling platforms (Contracting-IQ), building on efforts in 1H ’26 to incorporate Obesity market data into the analog library
• Triangulate data sources (Clarivate, MMIT, partner data) to refine employer segmentation and targeting
• Design and build Employer-specific modules within Contracting-IQ to support direct employer contracting
• Build CAP-AI for Obesity for dynamic copay / patient access support, including interplay with cash
• Partner with Payer Marketing and Pricing/Contracting and Brand Marketing teams to build and prioritize analytics and insights plan in support of value and access strategy for MariTide.
• Understand pharmaceutical ecosystem and data sets including medical and pharmacy claims (ex. IQVIA LAAD, Symphony Claims), prescription (ex. IQVIA NPA), outlet (ex. IQVIA DDD) and Payor Coverage (MMIT, Clarivate)

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
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree