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Job Description

At Amgen, every challenge is an opportunity. And every opportunity brings the potential to change lives. Our shared mission—to serve patients—has driven our status as one of the world’s preeminent biotechnology companies, reaching over 10 million patients worldwide. Leverage your high-level expertise to lead and forge partnerships that advance the biotechnical and biopharmaceutical science that can turn the tide of serious, life-interrupting illnesses.

GLOBAL VALUE OPTIMIZATION LEAD

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What you will do

In this vital role you will provide strategic, brand-agnostic leadership to strengthen Amgen’s global value optimization capabilities amid increasing pricing, access, and reimbursement interdependencies. Reporting to the Executive Director, GV&A Strategic Projects Lead, you will shape global pricing and value strategies, support senior leadership decision-making, and proactively manage pricing and ASP erosion risks by partnering closely with regional, country, and cross-functional stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and lead global value optimization strategy across the portfolio, balancing price, volume, profitability, supply, and reference price impact.
• Advise senior GVA, commercial, and enterprise leaders with robust analyses, scenarios, and recommendations on global pricing and ASP dynamics.
• Redesign and embed fit-for-purpose global price governance frameworks, ensuring consistent, compliant application across priority markets and brands.
• Establish pricing and access guiding principles for pipeline assets and launches to inform long-range planning and launch readiness.
• Provide strategic direction on analytics, insights, and reporting to enable high-quality pricing and value decisions.
• Deliver brand-agnostic oversight of priority markets, supporting complex, multi-product pricing and access business cases.
• Proactively identify, escalate, and mitigate pricing, ASP erosion, and cross-market spillover risks, including rock-bottom price assessments.
• Strengthen negotiation readiness through structured strategies, sequencing, and fallback positions for key pricing and reimbursement discussions.
• Monitor global payer, policy, regulatory, and HTA developments and translate insights into actionable guidance.
• Drive cross-functional alignment and capability building across Global Value & Access, Pricing, Finance, Policy, and regional teams, contributing to enterprise planning and forecasting processes.

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What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. What we seek in you as an experienced  professional, are these qualifications and skills:

• Degree educated.
• Previous pharmaceutical market access or pricing experience, with deep expertise in ex-U.S. environments and international pricing dynamics.
• Hands-on country and/or regional experience leading pricing, reimbursement, and payer negotiations.
• Strong knowledge of international reference pricing, cross-market interdependencies, and global value impact.
• Demonstrated financial acumen, including gross-to-net, ASP erosion, and P&L implications of pricing decisions.
• Strategic, hands-on leader able to translate complex analytics into clear, actionable recommendations and scenario-based plans.
• Proven track record leading complex, cross-functional initiatives, redesigning enterprise processes, and driving outcomes in a global matrix.
• Exceptional structuring, organizational, communication, and influencing skills, with the credibility to challenge and align senior stakeholders.

THRIVE

What you can expect of us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, so we work to care for our teammates’ professional and personal growth and well-being.

• Clear and disciplined strategic vision for the future that leverages superior-quality products, operational excellence and top-shelf-talent
• 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

LOCATION: Ability to work flexibly from home with regular office work either from our Cambridge or Uxbridge next generation workspace.

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for a career that defies imagination

What we do is hard. It should be. We are working with each other against the challenges of today for the promise of tomorrow. Lead the way.

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