Sr Associate Business Analysis

Amgen; India; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Amgen seeks a Senior Associate in the R&D Business Analysis Team to drive data analytics, modeling, and business insights across the value journey. You will support workforce strategy, financial analyses, and value realization with cross-functional teams and technology partners.

The role focuses on developing baselines, business cases, and analytic packs, while advancing predictive tools and continuous improvement opportunities in a global, follow-the-sun environment.

Qualifications

• Master's degree or Bachelor’s degree with 4–7 years of Data Analytics, Science & Technology Management, or Finance experience.
• Proficiency in financial modeling (Excel), data analytics, and business intelligence tools.
• Passion for data exploration and visualization.

Responsibilities

• Support BAT Managers with hands-on data gathering, modeling, and business case development.
• Build and maintain detailed resource, financial, and capability baselines for initiatives.
• Conduct analyses for value confirmation and support tracking of value realization.
• Assist with variance analysis, deviation management, and value reconciliation against approved cases.
• Analyze workforce and financial data to identify opportunities and optimization.
• Build and optimize data and financial models across the value journey.
• Support updates to central systems and scenario modeling tools with accurate data and assumptions.
• Lead information collection efforts, including stakeholder interviews and data validation.
• Collaborate with global, cross-functional teams in a follow-the-sun model.
• Partner with Finance and planning teams to understand impacts to budgets and long-range planning.

Skills

Financial modeling

Excel proficiency

Data analytics

BI tools

Education

Master's degree

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Excel

BI tools

Data analytics tools

Job description

Career Category Operations 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.

Senior Associate, R&D Business Analysis Team

What you will do

In this role, you will be an experienced individual contributor within the R&D Business Analysis Team, supporting enterprise analytics and workforce transformation initiatives through hands‑on data analysis, modeling, and insight generation. You will work under the guidance of Managers and Senior Managers while building strong analytical, financial, and business acumen.

You will contribute to analytics delivery across the value journey, including development of resource, financial, and capability baselines; analytics data packs; business cases; and value confirmation and realization. You will also collaborate with Technology partners to support automation and continuous improvement efforts, contributing to the development of sustainable analytics platforms that enable ongoing transformation.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate their analytical skills to challenge the status quo, drive continuous improvement, and embed digital ways of working into our end‑to‑end processes.

Objectives of this Role

• Support deliverables for workforce strategy : Support financial and data analyses across baselining, business case development, value confirmation, value extraction and value realization. Collaborate with cross‑functional global teams to ensure accurate analytics and insights delivery operating in the "following‑the‑sun" model
• Activity‑Based Cost Analysis : Support analyses of total workforce spend and allocation. Recommend strategic cost‑saving initiatives and optimizations based on analysis findings
• Vendor Analysis : Support the evaluation of vendor performance and impact on organizational efficiency. Develop strategies for vendor optimization and cost management
• Opportunity Analysis : Support identifying and prioritizing areas of opportunity across the organization. Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to implement organizational improvements
• System Updates & Scenario Modeling : Build and optimize data and financial models that support key processes across the value journey of our transformation. Help ensure central systems and scenario modeling tools are updated with accurate data and assumptions. Support development of new modeling tools to enhance predictive capabilities
• External Market Analysis : Support the analysis of external market trends and their impact on workforce strategy. Provide strategic recommendations based on market insights to drive organizational competitiveness

Job Responsibilities:

• Support BAT Managers with hands‑on data gathering, modeling, and business case development
• Build and maintain detailed resource, financial, and capability baselines for initiatives and functions
• Conduct analyses for value confirmation and support tracking of value realization
• Assist with variance analysis, deviation management, and value reconciliation against approved cases
• Analyze workforce and financial data to identify areas of opportunity and optimization
• Build and optimize data and financial models across the value journey
• Support updates to central systems and scenario modeling tools with accurate data and assumptions
• Lead and facilitate information collection efforts, including stakeholder interviews and data validation
• Collaborate with global, cross‑functional teams operating in a "follow‑the‑sun" model
• Partner with Finance and planning teams to understand impacts to budgets and long‑range

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients.

The Senior Associate is an experienced individual contributor who delivers high‑quality financial and analytical insights, supports data‑driven decision‑making, and partners effectively across R&D and enterprise functions.

Basic Qualifications

• Master's degree OR Bachelor's degree and 4-7 years of Data Analytics, Science & Technology Management, or Finance experience OR
• Proficiency in financial modeling (Excel), data analytics, and business intelligence tools
• Passion for data exploration, visu