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**HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?**
You’ve worked hard to become the professional you are today and are now ready to take the next step in your career. How will you put your skills, experience and passion to work toward your goals? At Amgen, our shared mission—to serve patients—drives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies, reaching over 10 million patients worldwide. Come do your best work alongside other innovative, driven professionals in this meaningful role.
If you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. At Amgen, our shared mission—to serve patients—drives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies. We are global collaborators who achieve together—researching, manufacturing, and delivering ever-better products that reach over 10 million patients worldwide. It’s time for a career you can be proud of.
**Senior Manager, Payer Contracting U.S.**
**Live**
**What you will do**
Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will lead contracting activities for Amgen’s Managed Care Organization (MCO) customers. The Senior Manager will serve as the Payer Contracting point of contact for both internal and external partners for one of Amgen’s top national MCO customers. This role reports to a Director of Payer Contracting.
The Senior Manager will be an instrumental member of the customer team responsible for coordinating Amgen’s customers and will be key in identifying and implementing contract strategies to ensure Amgen’s business needs are met. This role is integral in communicating account information to facilitate pricing and contracting decision-making by senior leadership. This individual will be the primary contract owner for the MCO client responsibilities and will assist in review of product pricing and contracting requests with internal executive committees. Additionally, this individual will partner with cross-functional teams to support product-specific pricing strategies, contract performance, and contract execution needs. **This role is remote, but will require some working hours during U.S. Pacific time zone.**
**Responsibilities:**
+ Manage the contract development process in conjunction with Amgen’s Market Access account executive, Law, Coverage & Pricing, and other customers.
+ Create term sheets and complete request for proposals (RFPs) as needed to provide pricing offers to MCO customers.
+ Act as business owner of the contract between Amgen and its customer, specifically owning the contracting strategy and execution of one of the Big 3 (“Mega”) managed care PBM/GPO customers.
+ Implement MCO pricing and contracting strategies in alignment with brand/business approach.
+ Maintain a comprehensive understanding of key MCO customer’s financials, growth drivers, membership, mergers/acquisitions, end customers, etc.
+ Support post-deal contract operations team including contracting interpretation for payment processing, dispute resolution, formulary validation, and other activities as needed.
+ Support ad-hoc requests by senior leadership for product and/or customer related business analytics and strategy.
**Win**
**What we expect of you**
We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek possesses these qualifications.
**Basic Qualifications:**
Doctorate degree and 2 years of sales & marketing operations or pricing experience
**Or**
Master’s degree and 4 years of sales & marketing operations or pricing experience
**Or**
Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of sales & marketing operations or pricing experience
**Or**
Associate’s degree and 10 years of sales & marketing operations or pricing experience
**Or**
High school diploma / GED and 12 years of sales & marketing operations or pricing experience
**Preferred Qualifications:**
+ Advanced degree preferred (i.e. MBA or equivalent experience)
+ 6+ years of experience solving complex business problems and managing multiple projects concurrently.
+ Ability to read and understand complex legal contract documents.
+ Pharmaceutical or biotechnology sales and marketing experience.
+ Demonstrated track record of increasing responsibility and leadership experience.
+ Strong negotiation skills.
+ Previous experience providing and delivering information for decision making by executive management.
+ Ability to manage in a highly fluid, interactive, matrixed environment.
+ Deep understanding of the US commercial and government healthcare and reimbursement environment.
+ Previous experience leading a contract development team.
**Thrive**
**What you can expect of us**
As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for our teammates’ professional and personal growth and well-being.
Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan comprising 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 including:
+ 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 work arrangements, where possible
**Apply now**
**for a career that defies imagination**
Objects in your future are closer than they appear. Join us.
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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.
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.
