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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 Associate Director
What you will do
The Value and Access Insights Associate Director is responsible for analytics relating to provide insights impacting patient support services through secondary data analytics and data integration and help shape PSP strategies. Value and Access Insights Associate Director will be part of a cross functional analytics insights team to provide integrated analyses and insights to Patient Access and Reimbursement team (PAR) This role is specifically responsible for providing insights impacting design, development and tracking of Patient support programs strategies through secondary data analytics and data integration.
This position reports to the Director, Value & Access Analytics, and Insights team. Value and Access Insights Associate Director manages 2-5 Value & Access Insights team
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 Associate Director will play a critical role in monitoring, diagnosing, and addressing Patient affordability challenges. In this role, you will partner with US Patient Access and Reimbursement Team to build a deep understanding of the Patient support programs for the portfolio products. You will provide integrated analysis combining multiple primary and secondary data sources to uncover deep insights that will guide design, develop, and monitor PSP programs and strategies.
Responsibilities:
Define and develop road map for CAPAI with expansion into other therapeutic areas
Business ownership of one of the platforms, CAP-AI – Rollout / upgrades and expansion
Partner with Patient Access and Reimbursement (PAR) team and Brand Marketing teams to build and prioritize analytics and insights plan in support of PSP strategy
Provide strategic guidance and manage a global team in USA and AIN within V&A organization
Through detailed analysis, Monitor the current program objectives and provide recommendations to PAR SLT on the optimal design changes
Drive analytics / insights and integrate multiple data sources to identify potential impact of any policy changes from the government, market events like M&A and other interconnected events
Constructively challenge teams by providing disconfirming information and encouraging innovative problem solving
Understand pharmaceutical ecosystem and data sets including medial and pharmacy claims (ex. IQVIA LAAD, Symphony Claims), prescription (ex. IQVIA NPA), outlet (ex. IQVIA DDD)
Prepare, continuously refine and present periodic reports tracking product and portfolio performance of PSP programs against business objectives.
Execute analytics plan to generate insights from various internal and external 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
What we expect of you
We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek is someone with these qualifications.
Basic Qualifications:
Doctorate degree and 3 years of relevant experience OR
Master’s degree and 5 years of relevant experience OR
Bachelor’s degree and 7 years of relevant experience OR
Associate’s degree and 12 years of relevant experience OR
High school diploma / GED and 14 years of relevant experience
Preferred Qualifications
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
8+ 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
Experience in MLOps practices and tools (e.g., MLflow, Kubeflow, Airflow); Experience in DevOps tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD)
Proficiency in Python and relevant ML libraries (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn)
Knowledge of NLP techniques for text analysis and sentiment analysis
Experience in analyzing time-series data for forecasting and trend analysis
Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
Experience with Databricks platform for data analytics and MLOps
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 and strong understanding of business strategies.
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.
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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.
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Salary Range
192,418.75USD -260,331.25 USD