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HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?

Location : Role can be based in Hong Kong or United States

Live

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role, the Commercial Forecasting Senior Manager will lead China and Global Oncology forecasting with the focus on China market forecasting, analytics and insights, ensuring strong partnership with Amgen’s regional partners. This role will report to the Oncology Commercial Forecasting Director within the Global Commercial Data & Analytics organization in Thousand Oaks, United States. This person will also report dotted line to Global Marketing Executive Director in Thousand Oaks, United States.

Specifically, this person will:

• Provide an objective and rigorous point of view to demand and patient based forecasting for pipeline and inline products, while collaborating with disciplines including forecasting/insights, marketing, finance, value and access and other global functions.

• Leverage prior experience in China oncology landscape such as payer, regulatory, data sources, market research and marketing to refine existing forecasts or build robust pipeline and inline forecasts.

• Independently lead quick turnaround projects and deliver quality assessments, collaborating with Directors/Executive Directors or above, with limited guidance or oversight.

• Demonstrate strong project management, prioritization and timeline execution across projects when working independently as well as when working with the vendors or internal teams. Ensure all forecasts are developed with detailed rationale, assumptions and storyboarding.

• Excellent communication, presentation, MS PowerPoint & Excel skills.

• Lead forecast transitions efforts from Global to Regional partners; support pre-launch, post-launch forecasting efforts at product and oncology portfolio level.

• Lead efforts to triangulate and validate forecast as well as P&L assumptions collaborating with internal teams as well as leveraging internal/external data sources where required.

• Lead and own the development of Brand Plan and Long Range Plan (LRP) forecasts, ad-hoc forecasting requests and support commercial assessment of in-licensing products on need-basis.

• Take active interest in understanding Competitive Intelligence landscape and Market Research to integrate it with high quality forecast models at asset and Oncology portfolio level.

• Explain modeling assumptions and triangulate assumptions with external data sources, analyst reports and other forecasting models to pressure test them and develop scenarios.

• Perform analyses estimating disease area revenue potential, sales coverage, market size, class penetration, marketing practices and future trends.

• Coordinate with finance and Insights & Analytics teams globally to develop and align on forecasting inputs.

• Manage professional relationships with internal stakeholders and external vendors.

Win

What we expect of you

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

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree and 2 years of analytics and/or forecasting experience

OR

Master’s degree and 4 years of analytics and/or forecasting experience

OR

Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of analytics and/or forecasting experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience with areas such as oncology/solid tumors marketing, market research, pricing & access and forecasting for China markets.

• Written/verbal working knowledge of Mandarin Chinese

• Ability to work collaboratively in team-based virtual environment across different time-zones.

• Strong oral, written and presentation skills; able to explain complex concepts clearly to a variety of audiences including senior leadership teams.

• Ability to maintain and operate in a highly sensitive/confidential environment.

• Experience with advanced Excel, patient based forecast modeling and oncology patient flows.

• Experience with quantitative techniques including smoothing, regression, time series analysis.

• Experience working with secondary datasets such as IQVIA, Symphony, Flatiron EMR, DRG etc. to conduct custom analysis.

• Working knowledge of forecasting inputs including global pricing, access and reimbursement policies, and competitive environment and potential impact on product development and commercialization strategy.

• Strong project management skills to organize and complete multiple projects efficiently and on time.

• Demonstrated ability to think strategically to support key business decisions

• Good understanding of the latest developments in the global biopharmaceutical industry, unmet medical, diagnostics/testing needs and opportunities across oncology.

• Demonstrated analytical skills with client service orientation or consulting background

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.

• 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

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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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Equal Opportunity Statement

Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider you without regard to your race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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