Sr Associate- Contracts & Pricing

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Job Description

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What you will do

Amgen harnesses the best of biology and technology to fight the world’s toughest diseases, and make people’s lives easier, fuller and longer. We discover, develop, manufacture and deliver innovative medicines to help millions of patients. Amgen helped establish the biotechnology industry more than 40 years ago and remains on the cutting-edge of innovation, using technology and human genetic data to push beyond what’s known today. Amgen has a robust portfolio and pipeline of biosimilars which target some of the most complex and important oncology and inflammation antibody biologics. Furthermore, many of the Amgen innovative medicines face biosimilar competition. In this role, you will drive a competitive edge for the team as we compete with this portfolio.

The Team

• Part of Amgen’s Global Contracts and Pricing Operations (Global CPO) organization sitting in the Global Operational Pricing Team
• Located mainly across Breda (Netherlands) and Lisbon (Portugal)
• Comprised of 15+ nationalities, fostering an inclusive and diverse environment
• Values include: Collaboration, Innovation, Continuous learning and growth, Delivering operational excellence, Embracing challenges, Having fun at work, Supporting one another as one global team
• Focused on enabling accurate, reliable contract and pricing execution to support Amgen’s mission of serving patients.

The Role

• This role manages pricing and contracting operations for JAPAC while supporting ex-US countries through comprehensive compliance, monitoring, reporting, system access, and automation activities.
• It safeguards data integrity, enhances operational oversight, and drives process efficiency through streamlined reporting and automation solutions.
• Eligible location for applicants: India

Accountabilities

• Accurate and timely execution of contracts, pricing, payments, and accruals for JAPAC
• Ensuring SOX and IICC control compliance
• Maintaining data integrity and monitoring system outcomes
• Supporting and validating changes in SAP Vistex and related systems
• Providing reporting, dashboards, and automation solutions

Responsibilities

• Operational Support: Manage and execute pricing, contracts, accruals, and payments for JAPAC countries within timelines and accuracy requirements.
• Compliance & Control:

• Collect and document data for SOX controls ; conduct data integrity checks
• Prepare and deliver reports supporting IICC controls
• Execute IICC controls for JAPAC countries
• Perform unit, regression, and integration testing following system changes
• Support integration testing with product or country team oversight
• Maintain Tableau dashboards and run related validations
• Conduct automated testing checks and follow up with Product Team AIN resources

• Monitoring Activities:

• Monitor data flows; identify and escalate issues to resolution
• Run audit and follow-on bots; investigate discrepancies
• Design and implement bots to improve monitoring of system outcomes
• Track and follow up on outstanding documents (PP, revisions, settlement deletions)

• Systems Access & Pricing Conditions:

• Support user access and workflow linkages in Vistex and Tableau
• Develop bots to improve user access processing where appropriate
• Execute pricing conditions (e.g., VK11) and ensure VAT compliance in SAP

• Other Contributions:

• Execute repetitive, well-documented tasks for the Breda and Portugal teams (reports, statistics, data archiving)
• Coordinate administrative activities (meeting scheduling, MoM, Smartsheet, action trackers)
• Deliver self-service reporting (dashboards, data extracts, report simplification)
• Analyze process mining data in Celonis and prepare reports for management
• Implement automation solutions and bots to improve efficiency

Win

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek has the following qualifications:

Essential Qualifications/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree + 2 years experience OR Associate’s degree + 5 years experience.
• Experience in one or more of the following:

• Contract and pricing operations
• Compliance
• Functional IT support
• Business administration

Preferred Experience:

• Fluency in English with strong written and verbal communication
• Experience in pharmaceutical and/or biotechnology environments
• Hands-on experience with SAP, Vistex, and/or Tableau
• Familiarity with Agile, DevOps, and tools such as Jira
• Strong Microsoft Office proficiency (Excel, PowerPoint, Teams)
• Cultural awareness and ability to operate effectively in global environments
• Ability to thrive in matrixed and international teams
• Strong understanding of end-to-end business processes
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and balance competing demands

Preferred Soft Skills

• Proactive “can-do” mindset and ownership mentality
• Strong planning, alignment, and follow-through
• High attention to detail with commitment to compliance and quality
• Positive, collaborative team orientation
• Results-driven, dependable, and consistent in delivering commitments
• Clear and confident communicator

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.

• Vast opportunities to learn and move up and across our global organization
• Diverse and inclusive community of belonging, where teammates are empowered to bring ideas to the table and act
• Generous Total Rewards Plan comprising health, finance and wealth, work/life balance, and career benefits

for a career that defies imagination

In our quest to serve patients above all else, Amgen is the first to imagine, and the last to doubt. Join us.

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