Senior Manager

The Value and Access Insights Senior Manager is responsible for analytics relating to managed care/organized customers and help shape payer & IDN strategies for Value & Analytics insights organization for Retail, Specialty, Oncology and Rare. Value and Access Insights Senior Manager will be part of a cross functional analytics team to support insights and analytics across these therapeutic areas. This role is specifically responsible for providing insights impacting payer reimbursement strategies through secondary data analytics and data integration

This position will report to the Director, Value & Access Insights team

Amgen Job Description:

In the face of a US health care system growing more complex day-by-day, we must constantly adapt and evolve our strategies to ensure our patients have appropriate access to our medicines. The US Value & Access (V&A) Insights Senior Manager will play a critical role in monitoring, diagnosing, and addressing payer obstacles and challenges. In this role, you will partner with US Insights & analytics and Coverage and Pricing team to build a deep understanding of the US managed markets environment for assigned products. You will provide integrated analysis combining multiple primary and secondary data sources to uncover deep insights that will guide payer, access, and reimbursement strategies.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with US insights and analytics and Pricing/Contracting and Brand Marketing teams to build and prioritize analytics and insights plan in support of value and access strategy for Repatha
• Provide in-depth, expertise-based oversight and delivery of managed markets analysis including product formulary position, utilization management controls, customer segmentation and control/sophistication assessment.
• Understand pharmaceutical ecosystem and data sets including medical and pharmacy claims (ex. IQVIA LAAD, Symphony Claims), prescription (ex. IQVIA NPA), outlet (ex. IQVIA DDD)
• Prepare, continuously refine and present periodic reports tracking product and portfolio performance against business objectives.
• Execute analytics plan to support payer insights from various payer datasets based on detailed understanding of related datasets i.e Patient level claims data; Payer claims data; Formulary coverage; Specialty Pharmacy Data.
• Oversee a team of 8-10 individuals including managers and senior associates, including setting performance standards, managing their staffing, and monitoring performance

• Constructively challenge teams by providing disconfirming information and encouragin innovative problem solving

• Build and maintain strong relationships with cross functional partners; proactively seeks buy-in and provides ongoing support to address business needs

• Perform advanced analytics including longitudinal patient level analysis, time series modeling, customer segmentation and diagnostics in support of business questions

• Create data analytics models to generate strategic actionable business insights using SQL, Python and Microsoft Excel and Power-BI

Basic Qualifications

• Masters degree in computer science, statistics or STEM majors with a minimum of 12 years of Information Systems experience OR
• Bachelors degree in computer science, statistics or STEM majors with a minimum of 15 years of Information Systems experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with new product / indication launch especially in disease area such as oncology, retail, Specialty and Rare disease
• Working experience on Analytics of products with medical benefit and Pharmacy benefit usage
• Understanding of Copay and Specialty pharmacy data
• Prior experience in contracts and pricing, direct payer experience or value marketing and have a good foundational understanding of the US payer environment and a strong foundation in the U.S. healthcare market
• Excellent conceptual problem-solving skills with demonstrated ability to bring structure to vaguely defined problems, pragmatic problem-solving approach, and manage execution
• Exceptional written/oral communication skills and executive presence across functions and across different levels of leadership
• Authoritative command of complexity and ambiguity; ability to see the big picture; ability to collect, digest and assemble information to enable relevant business analyses
• Strong leadership skills with a demonstrated ability to influence different styles
• 5+ years of healthcare experience in the biopharmaceutical industry, health care, and/or strategy consulting with specific experience and expertise in coverage, access and reimbursement drivers impacting the biopharmaceutical industry
• High degree of analytical and problem-solving skills
• Exhibits strong understanding of business strategies