Contract Development Manager
HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?
You’ve worked hard to become the professional you are today and are now ready to take the next step in your career. How will you put your skills, experience and passion to work toward your goals? At Amgen, our shared mission—to serve patients—drives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies, reaching over 10 million patients worldwide. Come do your best work alongside other innovative, driven professionals in this meaningful role.
Contract Development Manager
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What You Will Do
Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will operate within a dynamic business critical environment and would be primarily responsible for document creation and contract management of key provider customer contracts from request to completion, leading contract data for owned accounts in our contract lifecycle management (CLM) database, data entry accuracy and ensuring the system reflects key terms in the completed final contract, and collaborating with cross-functional team members to ensure key controls in the contracting process are met.
Position Responsibilities/Accountabilities
The Contract Development Mgr. will be a “contract writer” on the Provider Contracting team, a part of U.S. Value & Access (USV&A). Provider Contracting supports the Coverage and Pricing (C&P), Contracts and Pricing Execution (CPE), and Law teams in developing and implementing customer contract strategies that enable access to Amgen products in furtherance of Amgen’s mission to serve patients. We are looking for a business and/or legal professional who is an outstanding writer and can translate discount strategies, structures, and details from discussions and reference materials into controlling, legal documents.
This role is remote, but some working hours during U.S. Pacific time zone are necessary.
- Draft and edit agreements, amendments, notice letters, etc. and navigate review/approval cycles with cross-functional teams
- Draft custom contract language specifically for new pricing strategies
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to harmonize contract documents with operations, implementation, timelines, and to provide insight and anticipate future needs
- Participate in the document management process and interact with several cross-functional groups, including Payer/Provider Contracting, Law, and Government Programs
- Project manage planned and ad-hoc special projects within USV&A
- Identify and provide contract documents in support of internal and external audits and litigation
- Duties include extensive document management in our CLM system, reporting activities and metrics to leadership, handling customer document files, conducting document review meetings, presenting customer and contract document status and history to partners and certifying that key process controls have been met
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What We Expect Of You
We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. We seek a collaborative professional with these qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
Doctorate Degree
Or
Master’s degree and 2 commercial contracting, sales operations, finance and/or analytics experience
Or
Bachelor’s degree and 4 commercial contracting, sales operations, finance and/or analytics experience
Or
Associate’s degree and 10 commercial contracting, sales operations, finance and/or analytics experience
Or
High school diploma / GED and 12 years of commercial contracting, sales operations, finance and/or analytics experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- Advanced degree (i.e. MBA or JD)
- Pharmaceutical or Biotechnology experience
- Exposure to the US commercial and government healthcare and reimbursement environment
- Strong organizational skills and communication skills
- Ability to read, draft, edit and understand legal contract documents, ideally for Pharma
- Ability to manage and deliver results in a highly fluid, fast paced, interactive, matrixed environment
- Pharmaceutical or Biotechnology experience
- Ability to synthesize complex information, extract significant facts and communicate to broader team
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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.
The expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is posted. Actual salary will vary based on several factors including but not limited to, relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.
Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan comprising health and welfare plans for staff and eligible dependents, financial plans with opportunities to save towards retirement or other goals, work/life balance, and career development opportunities including:
- Comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions, group medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts.
- A discretionary annual bonus program, or for field sales representatives, a sales-based incentive plan
- Stock-based long-term incentives
- Award-winning time-off plans and bi-annual company-wide shutdowns
- Flexible work models, including remote work arrangements, where possible
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Application deadline
Amgen does not have an application deadline for this position; we will continue accepting applications until we receive a sufficient number or select a candidate for the position.
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.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
