Sr Associate - Contracts & Pricing
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Job Summary
The Team
The Role
Accountabilities
Responsibilities
Win
What we expect of you
Essential Qualifications/Experience
Preferred Experience
Preferred Soft Skills
Amgen harnesses the best of biology and technology to fight the worlds toughest diseases, and make peoples 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 whats 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 Amgens 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 Amgens 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
- Bachelors degree + minimum 3-5 years experience OR Associates degree + minimum 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