Senior R&D Budget & Operations Leader

Amgen; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement plan

Stock incentives

Bonus program

Flexible work models

Award-winning time-off plans

Job summary

Amgen seeks a Senior Manager, R&D Budget Management & Execution to lead end-to-end budget processes for assigned R&D groups, partnering with R&D Finance. You will oversee annual planning, quarterly forecasts, and close activities.

The role requires deep financial acumen, strong leadership, and the ability to translate strategy into budgets, with responsibilities across governance, reporting, and process improvements.

Qualifications

• Doctorate degree and 2 years of biotech/pharma business operations and/or financial analytics experience.
• Master’s degree and 4 years of biotech/pharma business operations and/or financial analytics experience.
• Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of biotech/pharma business operations and/or financial analytics experience.
• Associate’s degree and 10 years of biotech/pharma business operations and/or financial analytics experience.
• High school diploma / GED and 12 years of biotech/pharma business operations and/or financial analytics experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end budget management and execution process for assigned R&D organization(s), including annual budget planning, quarterly forecast updates, close activities, leadership updates, and other periodic financial deliverables.
• Serve as the primary Budget Management & Execution partner for functional leadership and R&D Finance, ensuring financial forecasts reflect business priorities, evolving strategy, and the prioritization of activities.
• Translate changes in baseline spend, portfolio or operational assumptions, resource needs, and business priorities into clear financial implications, forecasts, risks, and recommended actions.
• Maintain disciplined governance of budget plans, including reconciliation of actuals and commitments to plan and identification of meaningful forecast variances and emerging spending trends.
• Lead the collection, challenge, validation, and synthesis of planning assumptions and long‑range spend drivers supporting annual budget and long‑range planning activities.
• Develop leadership‑ready financial reporting, analyses, and narratives that clearly communicate budget status, drivers of change, risks and opportunities, resource utilization, and decision points.
• Provide analytical support for functional initiatives, productivity opportunities, scenario development, and business case generation, including measurement of expected and realized benefits where appropriate.
• Enable execution of capital and operating expense plans through forecasting, funding alignment, financial tracking, and partnership with relevant functional and finance stakeholders.
• Provide expert budget execution support across the procure‑to‑pay process, resolving escalated issues and partnering with transactional finance, sourcing, and other business partners to improve execution and controls.
• Lead and coordinate finance‑driven periodic activities such as accruals, purchase order maintenance, forecast updates, and ad hoc financial exercises.
• Serve as an advanced user of financial planning, reporting, and collaboration systems and promote consistent application of tools, processes, and data standards across the supported organization.
• Advance self‑service and data‑driven decision making by improving dashboards, reporting products, analytics, and other tools that provide leaders with timely and actionable financial insights.
• Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of Budget Management & Execution processes, standards, tools, and operating practices, identifying opportunities to simplify work, strengthen controls, improve cycle time, and increase scalability.
• Contribute business‑partner perspective to R&D Finance, Corporate Finance, and other cross‑functional initiatives affecting budget management and execution.
• Build and maintain strong partnerships across R&D functions, R&D Finance and FP&A, Global Strategic Sourcing, transactional finance, Supplier Management & Performance Analytics, and other business and corporate partners.

Skills

Financial acumen

People leadership

Excel skills

Data visualization

Executive communication

Education

Doctorate degree

Master’s degree

Bachelor’s degree

Associate’s degree

High school diploma

Tools

Tableau

Smartsheet

Microsoft Teams

SAP

Ariba

Anaplan

Job description

Amgen seeks a Senior Manager, R&D Budget Management & Execution to lead end-to-end budget processes for assigned R&D groups, partnering with R&D Finance. You will oversee annual planning, quarterly forecasts, and close activities.

The role requires deep financial acumen, strong leadership, and the ability to translate strategy into budgets, with responsibilities across governance, reporting, and process improvements.