{"id":1140004,"url":"https://alion.io/job/amgen-associate-incentive-compensation-administration","title":"Associate — Incentive Compensation Administration","company":{"id":4775,"name":"Amgen","domain":"amgen.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/amgen","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":80,"open_postings":331,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.813,"repost_share":0.003,"time_to_fill_p50_days":26,"computed_at":"2026-09-23T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"HR","role_family":"HR","seniority":"junior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Hyderabad, India"],"countries":["IN"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":12500,"max_usd":31000,"period":"year","method":"global_role_cell_scaled_by_country","sample_n":1020},"experience_years_min":1,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Microsoft Excel","optional":true},{"name":"SQL","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-23T10:27:51Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-23","last_verified_at":"2026-09-23T10:27:49Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Career Category\nSales & Marketing OperationsJob Description\nJoin Amgen's Mission of Serving Patients\nAt Amgen, if you feel like you're part of something bigger, it's because you are. Our shared mission - to serve patients living with serious illnesses - drives all that we do.\nSince 1980, we've helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world's toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas - Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease - we reach millions of patients each year. As a member of the Amgen team, you'll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller, happier lives.\nOur award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science-based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lie within them, you'll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.\nWhat you will do\nLet’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role, the Associate, Incentive Compensation Administration will provide hands-on operational and data support for the accurate and timely administration of field incentive compensation (IC) plans. The role will execute recurring IC activities including data intake and validation, eligibility and crediting support, calculation review, payment-file preparation, reconciliations, reporting, and maintenance of participant and territory information in accordance with approved plan rules and established processes.\nThe Associate will work with multiple data sources to validate and reconcile IC-related information, perform quality-control checks, prepare recurring IC reports and scorecards, and support resolution of field inquiries related to eligibility, crediting, attainment, calculations, and payments. The role will maintain accurate documentation, business rules, QC checklists, and administrative records while ensuring appropriate confidentiality, data integrity, process compliance, and audit readiness.\nThis position works within the Incentive Compensation Administration team in Field Excellence and collaborates with onshore business stakeholders and cross-functional teams across Incentive Compensation, Field Effectiveness, data management, Finance, HR, Payroll, IT, and external partners. The role will also support plan updates, territory changes, product launches, system enhancements, testing, automation opportunities, and other IC initiatives while contributing to continuous improvement of IC administration processes.\nResponsibilities\nIC Administration and Data Operations\nSupport accurate and timely administration of field incentive compensation (IC) plans in accordance with approved plan rules, established processes, and business timelines.\nExecute assigned recurring IC activities, including data intake, eligibility validation, crediting support, calculation review, payment-file preparation, and maintenance of participant and territory records.\nExtract, consolidate, validate, and reconcile IC-related data from multiple sources, including sales performance, customer data, territory alignments, call activity, and employee data.\nPerform routine data-quality checks to identify missing, duplicate, inaccurate, or inconsistent records before calculations and payments are finalized.\nPrepare standard weekly/monthly/quarterly IC reports like goal reports, IVR, eligibility reports, attainment reports, master tables, payout summaries, payroll reports, and scorecards.\nField Support, Documentation, and Compliance\nSupport field inquiries, disputes, and escalations related to eligibility, crediting, goal attainment, plan calculations, and payments; provide timely and data-backed responses.\nMaintain accurate documentation of plan rules, administrative procedures, calculation logic, exceptions, approvals, and payout records.\nHandle compensation data with confidentiality, accuracy, integrity, and appropriate attention to detail.\nSupport compliance with internal controls, legal guidance, privacy requirements, and applicable industry regulations.\nDemonstrate disciplined process ownership by consistently adhering to approved SOPs and documentation standards; proactively maintain and update quality-control checklists before each delivery; and ensure business-rule documents remain accurate, current, and aligned with approved plan requirements and process changes.\nStakeholder and Process Support\nCollaborate with Sales Operations, Field Excellence, Finance, HR, IT, Payroll, and external vendors to resolve routine data and process issues.\nSupport implementation activities for plan updates, territory changes, product launches, and other assigned IC initiatives.\nAssist with testing of reports, system enhancements, automation opportunities, and IC platform updates.\nContribute to SOPs, FAQs, training materials, and field communication resources.\nQualifications\nBasic Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree and 1-3 years of experience in incentive compensation administration, sales operations, compensation operations, finance operations, analytics, or a related field.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience in bio/pharmaceutical, healthcare, consulting, or commercial operations.\nExposure to field incentive compensation processes, including eligibility, crediting, calculation validation, payment processing, reporting, or inquiry resolution.\nStrong attention to detail and ability to work accurately in a deadline-driven environment.\nProficiency in SQL and Microsoft Excel and comfort working with large datasets.\nAbility to interpret documented business rules and apply them to data validation and administrative processes.\nStrong problem-solving, organizational, written, and verbal communication skills.\nExperience with, or interest in learning, industry-leading incentive compensation administration platforms.\nGood to have IC health checks, plan modeling and design, contest design, goal setting experience.\n.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6022,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":1,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Biotechnology","Health Care","Pharmaceuticals"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-23T10:27:51Z"}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":26,"reasons":["conf:2","win:early","comp:junior,brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-23T12:51:48Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/amgen-associate-incentive-compensation-administration","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/amgen-associate-incentive-compensation-administration.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-23T12:51:48Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}