Director – Transformation Analytics

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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. 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.

Director -Transformation Analytics

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will be a member of the Transformation Analytics team, supporting Amgen’s Technology & Workforce Strategy. We are seeking a highly motivated leader who will leverage financial and data analytics with strategic thinking to enable enterprise-wide workforce transformation by connecting data across our people, finances and capabilities to enable business insights and decisions.

In this role, you will lead and supervise 3 or more Analytics “pods”, each consisting of a small team (1-3 resources), and will be responsible to deliver critical analytics and insights throughout the value journey, including developing resource, financial and capability baselines, developing taxonomies, analytics data packs, business cases, value confirmation and value realization. In addition, you will collaborate with our Technology teams to support ongoing automation and continuous improvement. Ultimately, you will lead a team that will enable development of a sustainable platform for ongoing transformation.

The ideal candidate will leverage their analytical acumen to challenge the status quo, drive continuous improvement, and embed digital ways of working into our end-to-end processes.

Objectives of this Role

• Team Leadership: Lead 3 or more analytics “pods”, each staffed with a small team of analytics resources to support key deliverables below
• Lead development of deliverables for workforce strategy: Lead the team to deliver financial and data analyses across base-lining, business case, value confirmation, value extraction and value realization. Collaborate with cross-functional global teams to ensure accurate analytics and insights delivery operating in the "following-the-sun" model
• Activity-Based Cost Analysis: Lead analyses of total workforce spend and allocation. Recommend strategic cost-saving initiatives and optimizations based on analysis findings.
• Vendor Analysis: Lead evaluation of vendor performance and impact on organizational efficiency. Develop strategies for vendor optimization and cost management.
• Opportunity Analysis: Lead identifying and prioritizing areas of opportunity across the organization. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement organizational improvements.
• System Updates & Scenario Modeling: Guide teams in integrating data across multiple systems and functions, to help optimize data and financial models that support key processes across the value journey of our transformation. Help 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.
• External Market Analysis: Guide the analysis of external market trends and their impact on workforce strategy. Provide strategic recommendations based on market insights to drive organizational competitiveness.

Job Responsibilities:

• Oversee multiple small teams focused on the development of comprehensive resource and financial analyses for Tech and workforce strategy program
• Direct the reporting of insights on Tech & Workforce Strategy program
• Provide leadership in building and maintaining functional ambitions for teams
• Oversee the creation of complex cases, incorporating multiple data sources
• Oversee data validation of the Value Confirmation analysis, review executive summary outputs
• Guide teams in identifying and reconciling deviations from the approved case
• Oversee analysis efforts to optimize workforce and resource allocation, driving efficiency across the business
• Oversee the development of models for long-term planning and decision-making, ensuring strategic alignment
• Oversee data integration across multiple teams to ensure insights are aligned with business priorities and performance objectives
• Oversee design and implement automated data workflows for complex datasets, collaborating with business and IT teams to expand automation and integrate it with existing systems
• Collaborate with cross-functional global teams to ensure accurate insights' delivery, operating in the "following-the-sun" model
• Interact with various finance and resource planning groups across Amgen to understand impact to budget/long range plans
• Influence cross-functional key collaborators to leverage single source of truth of transformation data being built in OPI&A (Organization planning, insights & analytics)

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The [vital attribute] professional we seek is a [type of person] with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree and 4 years of Data Analytics / Finance experience OR
• Master’s degree and 14 to 16 years of Data Analytics / Finance experience OR
• Bachelor’s degree and 16 to 18 years of Data Analytics / Finance experience
• 6+ years of managerial experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs or directing the allocation of resources
• Leader who can “connect the dots” across matrixed organization
• Proficiency in 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
• Experience working in highly collaborative cross-functional environments
• Proficiency in financial modeling, data analytics and business intelligence tools
• Understanding of financial data and systems

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years of managerial experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs or directing the allocation of resources
• Mastery of complex financial modeling (Excel)
• Understanding of global Finance, HR & Procurement systems and data
• Understanding of HR/Procurement/Global Sourcing operations
• Experience in budgeting, forecasting, and strategic planning
• Understanding of impacts of business decisions to financial statements (P&L, B/S, Cash Flow)
• Understanding of / experience in the Bio-Pharmaceutical industry
• Business transformation experience involving recent technology advancements
• Prior multinational corporate experience (capability center or other)
• Experience with Oracles Hyperion/EPM, SAP, Anaplan, PowerBI / Tableau
• Experience with data analysis, data modeling, and data visualization solutions such as Tableau, Alteryx, Databricks, PowerBI
• Experience working with business partners to identify complex functionality and translate it into requirements
• Experience in preparing executive communication to include written and oral presentations.
• Experience in financial planning, analysis, and reporting, ERP systems and financial software

Soft Skills:

• Influence and persuasion skills
• Effective communication and people skills.
• Elevated level of integrity and ethical standards.
• Problem-solving and critical thinking capabilities.
• Ability to influence and lead change.
• Adaptability to a dynamic and challenging environment

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.

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards Plans that are aligned with local industry standards.

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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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