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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. You will support the design and delivery of Incentive Compensation (IC) solutions for Amgen’s commercial organization, partnering with internal teams and stakeholders across AIN and India. You will contribute to analysis, modeling, documentation, and implementation activities that help ensure IC plans are aligned to business objectives and delivered with quality and consistency.\nThis role supports end-to-end IC design and analytics, with a focus on translating business requirements into practical incentive plan solutions, conducting quantitative analysis, and helping stakeholders understand the potential impact of plan design choices.\nResponsibilities\nIncentive Compensation Design & Analytics: Support the development and implementation of IC plan design solutions aligned to business goals, field strategy, and approved governance requirements.\nScenario Modeling & Analysis: Develop and maintain scenario models to assess the impact of design choices such as measures, weightings, thresholds, targets, payout curves, and other plan mechanics.\nAnalytics & Insight GenerationAnalyze historical performance, payout distributions, and field data to identify trends, outliers, and opportunities to improve incentive plan effectiveness.\nPerform quantitative analyses and support financial modeling to evaluate potential plan changes, including sensitivity analyses and cost implications.\nSupport benchmarking and research on incentive compensation practices, industry trends, and relevant market insights to inform design recommendations.\n\nOperational Excellence and Delivery:Support end-to-end execution of IC design deliverables, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, quality, and adherence to established processes and governance standards.\nMaintain clear and complete documentation of assumptions, methodologies, calculations, decisions, and approvals to support traceability and audit readiness.\nPartner with IC operations, technology, data, and business stakeholders to translate approved plan designs into implementable requirements and support testing and issue resolution.\nDevelop and maintain data inputs, analysis files, and supporting materials used in IC design, and investigate discrepancies in partnership with relevant stakeholders.\n\nAutomation & AI:Identify opportunities to automate repetitive IC design and analytics activities, and support the development and implementation of efficient, scalable solutions.\nSupport AI/ML initiatives within the IC space by helping identify relevant use cases, providing business context, and validating outputs for accuracy and usability.\n\nContinuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to simplify processes, improve analytical approaches, strengthen controls, and enhance the overall effectiveness and scalability of IC design activities.\nBusiness Impact & Collaborator Management: Partner with stakeholders to understand business requirements, clarify design questions, communicate analytical findings, and support recommendations that align IC outcomes with business objectives.\nWhat we expect of you\nWe are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients.\nBasic Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree and 3 to 5 years of experience in incentive compensation Design, Incentive Compensation analytics, or a related field.\nPreferred Qualifications\nRelevant experience in Incentive Compensation design or analytics, sales force effectiveness, sales operations, or field platforms and systems in the bio/pharmaceutical industry and/or consulting experience.\nAnalytical Skills: Ability to analyze data, identify trends, build structured analyses, and make data-driven recommendations. Proficiency in Excel is expected; familiarity with SQL and data visualization tools is a plus.\nTechnical Proficiency: Working knowledge of relevant software and technologies, such as incentive compensation platforms, sales planning and operations tools, CRM systems, and other field-specific applications.\nCritical Thinking: Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to break down ambiguous business questions, assess alternatives, and translate findings into practical IC design recommendations.\nProject Management: Ability to manage assigned deliverables, coordinate dependencies, track timelines, and follow through on actions across multiple stakeholders.\nCollaboration: Ability to work effectively with stakeholders across functions and geographies, build strong working relationships, and seek alignment on requirements and decisions.\nCommunication: Effective written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain analytical findings and IC concepts clearly to business partners and team members.\nStrong oral, written, and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate complex concepts clearly and concisely to a variety of audiences.\nComfortable challenging the status quo, asking thoughtful questions, and bringing forward ideas for improvement and innovation.\nAbility to identify process and analytical improvements and contribute to changes that enhance the overall effectiveness of the team.\nWhat you can expect from us\nAs we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for your professional and personal growth and well-being. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we’ll support your journey every step of the way.\nIn addition to the base salary, Amgen offers competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards Plans that are aligned with local industry standards.\nApply now and make a lasting impact with the Amgen team.\ncareers.amgen.com\nAs an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people around the world, Amgen fosters an inclusive environment of diverse, ethical, committed and highly accomplished people who respect each other and live the Amgen values to continue advancing science to serve patients. Together, we compete in the fight against serious disease.\nAmgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.\nWe 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. 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