Value & Access Insights Sr. Manager, Medical Benefit Products

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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. 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 & Access Insights Sr. Manager, Medical Benefit Products

Live

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. The Value and Access Insights Senior Manager leads analytics for managed care and organized customers, helping shape payer and provider strategies for the Value & Access Analytics Insights organization’s medical benefit portfolio. As part of a cross-functional analytics insights team, this role delivers integrated analyses and insights to coverage and pricing teams, with a focus on payer and provider reimbursement strategies through secondary data analytics and data integration. This position reports to the Director of Value & Access Analytics and Insights.

In the face of a US health care system growing more complex day-by-day, we must constantly adapt and evolve our strategies ensure our patients have appropriate access to our medicines.  The US Value & Access (V&A) Insights Senior Manager will play a critical role in monitoring, diagnosing, and addressing payer obstacles and challenges.  In this role, you will partner with US Payer Marketing and C&P teams to build a deep understanding of the US managed markets environment for assigned 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.

Responsibilities:

• 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 medical benefit portfolio.
• Understand pharmaceutical ecosystem and data sets including medial and pharmacy claims (ex. IQVIA LAAD, Claims), prescription (ex. IQVIA NPA), outlet (ex. IQVIA DDD) and chargeback data
• Provide in-depth, expertise-based oversight and delivery of managed markets analysis including product formulary position, utilization management controls, customer segmentation and control/sophistication assessment.
• Prepare, continuously refine and present periodic reports tracking product and portfolio performance against business objectives.
• Execute analytics plan to support payer insights from various payer datasets based on detailed understanding of related datasets i.e Patient level claims data; Payer claims data; Formulary coverage; Specialty Pharmacy Data..
• Constructively challenge teams by providing disconfirming information and encouraging innovative problem solving
• Build and maintain strong relationships with cross functional partners; proactively seeks buy-in and provides ongoing support to address business needs
• Perform advanced analytics including longitudinal patient level analysis, time series modeling, customer segmentation and issue diagnostics in support of business questions
• Create data analytics models to generate strategic actionable business insights using SQL, R, Python and Microsoft Excel

Win

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The Value & Access Sr. Manager, Medical Benefit products we seek is a motivated professional with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree and 2 years of business experience OR
• Master’s degree and 4 years of business experience OR
• Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of business experience OR
• Associate’s degree and 10 years of business experience OR
• High school diploma / GED and 12 years of business experience
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Working experience on Analytics of products with Medical benefit and Pharmacy benefit usage.
• Prior experience working with buy-and-bill products and having a good understanding of provider reimbursement/NCR analytics.
• 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

Thrive

What you can expect of us

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
• Flexible work models where possible. Refer to the Work Location Type in the job posting to see if this applies.

Apply now and make a lasting impact with the Amgen team.

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Application deadline

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

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.

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Salary Range

163,072.50USD -220,627.50 USD