Senior Manager, Value & Access Insights – Cross Portfolio Innovation
1002 Amgen USA Inc.
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Job summary
Amgen in Thousand Oaks, CA is seeking a Senior Manager, Value & Access Insights – Cross Portfolio Innovation to lead analytics-based value-evidence strategies and innovative contracting tools across the U.S. portfolio.
You will partner with V&A, HEOR, Medical, and cross-functional teams to shape evidence needs, advance contracting capabilities, and drive adoption of analytics products like CIQ and PEP AI, delivering measurable business impact.
Qualifications
- PhD or equivalent in business/engineering/data science with 2 years of relevant experience, or Master’s with 4 years, or Bachelor’s with 6 years.
- 5+ years in biopharma analytics, market access, HEOR, or strategy consulting with payer experience.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; experience with statistical or ML methods for elasticity, forecasting, optimization.
Responsibilities
- Lead cross-portfolio value-evidence strategy; identify priority payer evidence needs; define analytics plans.
- Identify evidence gaps across brands; establish reusable frameworks and data assets.
- Advance innovative contracting capabilities; translate needs into use cases and adoption plans.
- Own and evolve analytics products (CIQ, PEP AI) with design, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
- Drive adoption; build workflows, training, and change-management for new tools.
- Provide cross-portfolio contracting and pricing support; rapid scenario assessments and outputs.
- Collaborate across functions to translate needs into scalable analytics and leadership-ready deliverables.
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Value and Access
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.
Let’s do this. Let’s change the world.
In an increasingly complex U.S. health care environment, generating compelling evidence of value and translating that evidence into effective access strategies are critical to helping patients access our medicines. The U.S. Value & Access (V&A) Insights team enables these strategies by integrating data, advanced analytics, and business expertise to inform payer and provider engagement, pricing, and contracting decisions.
The Senior Manager, Value & Access Insights – Value Evidence & Contracting Innovation will lead two complementary areas of work across the U.S. portfolio. First, this individual will shape and deliver analytics-based value-evidence strategies that address priority payer questions and strengthen the evidence used in access discussions. Second, the Senior Manager will accelerate the development, adoption, and impact of innovative tools and analytical approaches for payer and provider contracting.
This is a high-visibility individual-contributor role requiring strong business judgment, analytical leadership, cross-functional influence, and the ability to move innovative capabilities from concept through deployment, adoption, and continuous improvement. The position reports to the Director, Value & Access Insights.
Flexible Commuter role to Thousand Oaks, CA site. You will work on-site 2 days a week.
- Lead cross-portfolio value-evidence strategy - Partner with V&A, brand, Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR), Medical, and other cross-functional stakeholders to identify priority payer evidence needs, define analytics-based evidence strategies, and develop plans that address the clinical, economic, access, and population-level questions most relevant to payer decision-making.
- Identify evidence gaps and scalable opportunities - Assess existing evidence and analytical capabilities across brands, identify common payer questions and evidence gaps, and establish reusable frameworks, methodologies, and data assets that improve consistency, speed, and quality across the portfolio.
- Advance innovative contracting capabilities - Identify, evaluate, and scale innovative tools and analytical approaches that improve payer and provider contracting decisions. Translate business needs into use cases, requirements, workflows, and adoption plans in partnership with Contracting & Pricing, Finance, Market Access, brand teams, and Digital Technology & Innovation (DTI)/IT
- Own and evolve priority analytics products - Lead the business and analytics roadmaps for Contracting IQ (CIQ), Price Elasticity Predictor (PEP AI), and other priority capabilities. Guide solution design, integration, testing, deployment, documentation, model monitoring, and continuous improvement, with an emphasis on explainability, usability, and measurable business impact.
- Drive adoption and capability building - Develop practical workflows, training, documentation, and change-management approaches that embed new tools and methods into business decisions. Establish success measures, monitor use and impact, gather feedback, and continuously refine capabilities based on stakeholder needs.
- Ad hoc contracting and pricing support: Support priority ad hoc analyses and delivery needs related to payer and provider contracting and pricing, including rapid-turn scenario assessments, bid and negotiation support, leadership requests, and development of decision-ready outputs.
- Cross-portfolio innovation and stakeholder partnership: Support cross-portfolio innovation initiatives that strengthen decision support and ways of working for Contracting & Pricing (C&P), Market Access, CPE, and other key stakeholders; translate priority needs into scalable analytics and leadership-ready deliverables.
We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The strategic professional we seek is a motivated professional with these qualifications.
- PhD or foreign equivalent degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, or a related field and 2 years of relevant experience
- Master’s or foreign equivalent degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, or a related field and 4 years of relevant experience
- Bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, or a related field and 6 years of relevant experience
- 5+ years of experience in the biopharmaceutical industry, health care analytics, market access, HEOR, and/or strategy consulting, with a strong understanding of the U.S. payer and provider landscape.
- Demonstrated experience developing value-evidence strategies or analytics that support payer decision-making, access strategy, or customer engagement.
- Experience leading analytical products or strategic workstreams from problem definition and solution design through deployment, adoption, impact measurement, and continuous improvement.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience applying statistical and/or machine-learning methods to elasticity, segmentation, forecasting, optimization, or related business decisions.
- Working proficiency with a combination of analytical and reporting tools, such as Python, SQL, Microsoft Excel, Anaplan, or business‑intelligence platforms, and familiarity with pharmaceutical contracting, reimbursement, access, utilization, and financial data.
- Strong written and oral communication skills, executive presence, and the ability to translate complex analytical findings into clear business implications and recommendations.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate across functions, influence without authority, manage multiple priorities, and maintain strong standards for data quality, documentation, and analytical rigor.
Amgen is committed to unlocking the potential of biology for patients suffering from serious illnesses by discovering, developing, manufacturing and delivering innovative human therapeutics. This approach begins by using tools like advanced human genetics to unravel the complexities of disease and understand the fundamentals of human biology.
We understand that to successfully sustain and grow as a global enterprise and deliver for patients - we must ensure a diverse and inclusive work environment.
Our culture is what makes Amgen a special place to work. We have a powerful shared purpose around our mission - to serve patients. We respect one another, recognize contributions, and have embedded collaboration, trust, empowerment and inclusion in all that we do.
We equip all our staff members to live well‑rounded, healthy lives. Most recently, Amgen added benefits for transgender employees and continues to pride itself on industry‑leading, family‑friendly offerings for families of all compositions.
As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for your professional and personal growth and well-being. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we’ll support your journey every step of the way.
The expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is posted. Actual salary will vary based on several factors including but not limited to, relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.
In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan, based on eligibility, comprising of health and welfare plans for staff and eligible dependents, financial plans with opportunities to save towards retirement or other goals, work/life balance, and career development opportunities that may include:
- 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 and bi‑annual company‑wide shutdowns
- Flexible work models, including remote and hybrid work arrangements, where possible
In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age‑identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.
Amgen does not have an application deadline for this position; we will continue accepting applications until we receive a sufficient number or select a candidate for the position.
Sponsorship for this role is not guaranteed.
As an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people around the world, Amgen fosters an inclusive environment of diverse, ethical, committed and highly accomplished people who respect each other and live the Amgen values to continue advancing science to serve patients. Together, we compete in the fight against serious disease.
Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation. Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider you without regard to your race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.
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