Senior Manager Organizational Planning Analytics & Insights

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. 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.

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will collaborate with the Organizational Planning Analytics & Insights Lead supporting the overall Tech & Workforce Strategy. We are at the hinge moment of time where biotechnology and artificial intelligence technology meet. The Technology & Workforce Strategy will serve as a ground-breaking program for Amgen to develop an innovation and technology center. The scope of work includes assisting the global functions through their workforce strategy journey.

The Sr. Manager Analytics & Insights will be responsible for developing and implementing novel data driven analytics & insights to support innovation. With these analytics capabilities you will make robust inferences to transform our business, ensure critical financial and workforce analysis impacting the lives of our patients.

The successful candidate is expected to have advanced knowledge in financial/business case modeling, prioritization, business transformation and partnering. This role will assist in a wide range of activities such as business engagement and onboarding to the Amgen India Program, baselining, taxonomy development, workshop data packs generation, business case and detailed design development and value capture monitoring. The successful candidate will interact with business collaborators and serve as a strong liaison between the program and Functional partners. The person will also engage with Sr Leaders representing all functions globally across Amgen.

This role will collaborate with tech and data scientists, business SMEs, and IT professionals to develop automated solutions and infrastructure to enable development of a sustainable platform for baselining and long-range financial planning tools, business cases and value capture modeling, and connecting the gamut of multi-functional and finance data for ongoing transformation.

• Workforce Analytics & Forecasting: Lead the development and implementation of advanced supply and demand modeling techniques. Supervise the integration of workforce analytics with organizational strategy to ensure alignment with business goals. Mentor and guide team members in workforce analytics methodologies and best practices. Partner with HR and Procurement SMEs to support internal and external workforce analytics.
• Activity-Based Cost Analysis: Conduct in-depth analyses of total workforce spend and allocation. Recommend strategic cost-saving initiatives and optimizations based on analysis findings.
• Vendor Analysis: Lead the evaluation of vendor performance and impact on organizational efficiency. Develop strategies for vendor optimization and cost management.
• Organizational Analysis: Identify and prioritize areas of optimization opportunity across the organization. Collaborate with multi-functional teams to implement organizational improvements.
• System Updates & Scenario Modeling: Ensure central systems and scenario modeling tools are updated with accurate data and assumptions. Lead the development of new modeling tools to enhance predictive capabilities.
• Workforce Plan Maintenance: Support the maintenance of the central workforce plan and track execution against the plan. Report on workforce plan progress to senior leadership and recommend adjustments as needed.
• External Market Analysis: Support the analysis of external market trends and their impact on workforce planning. Provide strategic recommendations based on market insights to drive organizational competitiveness.

The ideal candidate will be an initiative-taking team leader with process improvement and communication skills. The candidate will be meticulous, and results focused and will have a consistent track record of problem solving and collaborating with internal and external collaborators.

• Doctorate degree and 2 years of Data Analytics, Science & Technology Management or Finance or experience; OR
• Master’s degree and 8 to 10 years of Data Analytics, Science & Technology Management or Finance experience; OR
• Bachelor’s degree and 10 to 14 years of Data Analytics, Science & Technology Management or Finance experience; OR
• Diploma and 12 years of Data Analytics, Science & Technology Management or Finance experience
• In addition to meeting at least one of the above requirements, you should have 2-4 years’ experience directly handling people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs, or directing the allocation of resources. Your managerial experience may run concurrently with the required technical experience referenced above.

• Resourceful leader who can “connect the dots” across matrixed organization.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
• Passion for data exploration & visualization and building narratives to drive data-driven business transformation.
• Intellectual curiosity, with ability to learn new concepts, and methods.
• Energy for applying technical skills to solving complex business problems with elegant data analyses and Digital Products.
• Ability to manage multiple competing priorities in parallel.
• History of delivering high quality work in an organized, and prompt fashion.
• Experience working in highly collaborative multi-functional environments.
• Experience with global finance & procurement systems and operations.
• Knowledge of advanced financial modeling techniques.
• Proficiency in data analytics and business intelligence tools.
• Understanding of financial data and systems.

• Understanding of procurement data and procurement / sourcing value collection process for workforce optimization.
• Understanding of impacts of procurement/sourcing actions on financial statements (P&L, B/S, Cash Flow)
• Familiarity with the biotech industry.
• Business performance management.
• Business transformation experience involving recent technology advancements.
• Prior multinational capability center experience.
• Experience with Oracles Hyperion/EPM, SAP, Anaplan, Tableau/PowerBI
• Familiar with scripting languages like SQL or Python, and AWS services like S3 and Redshift
• Experience with data analysis, data modeling, and data visualization solutions such as Tableau, Alteryx, Databricks, AI and GenAI

• Excellent leadership and team management abilities.
• Effective communication and people skills.
• Elevated level of integrity and ethical standards.
• Problem-solving and critical thinking capabilities.
• Ability to influence and motivate change.
• Adaptability to a dynamic and exciting environment.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT

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 with 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 an accommodation.