Director, Commercial Forecasting and Analytics

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Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients

At 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.

Since 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.

Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

Director Commercial Forecasting and Analytics

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will Director, Portfolio Effectiveness and Optimization Results Delivery within the Customer Data & Analytics team is accountable for coordinating our delivery efforts across the internal and external team located in AIN and across India. In addition, the Director must manage relationships across a complex internal set of teams and functional groups.

This position reports to the Associate Vice President, Portfolio Effectiveness and Optimization and will be responsible for the following

Responsibilities

• Capability Builder: Establish and grow Amgen India’s center of excellence for Forecasting & CI from the ground up. People Leadership: Hire, develop, and lead a blended team of full-time employees and contract workers. Foster a high-performance, inclusive, and collaborative culture.
• Strategic Partnering: Act as the key offshore liaison for global Forecasting & CI leadership, partnering across US and global collaborators to deliver critical insights and foresight.
• Delivery Oversight: Ensure on-time, high-quality forecasting models and CI deliverables for pipeline and inline products.
• Operational Excellence: Develop scalable processes and methodologies, implement best practices in forecast modeling, scenario planning, and competitor landscape analysis.
• Vendor & Contractor Management: Manage external vendors and contract staff, ensuring high-quality standards, governance, and value delivery.
• Innovation & Technology Enablement: Champion advanced analytics tools, automation, and AI/ML methodologies in forecasting and intelligence.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Translate business questions into actionable insights. Effectively communicate findings to senior cross-functional leaders to influence strategic decisions.
• Financial management: Oversee budget associated with offshore work in India, ensuring best negotiated rates and overall value

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients.

Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree and 4 years of pharmaceutical forecasting and/or Competitive Intelligence experience OR
• Master’s degree and 14 to 16 years of pharmaceutical forecasting and/or Competitive Intelligence experience OR
• Bachelor’s degree and 16 to 18 pharmaceutical forecasting and/or Competitive Intelligence experience
• Managerial experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs or directing the allocation of resources

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in Global pharmaceutical/biotech forecasting and/or competitive intelligence
• Deep understanding of forecasting methodologies, epidemiology-based models, analog-based forecasting, and CI frameworks
• Experience building and scaling global teams, especially in offshore environments
• Strong background in managing hybrid teams (FTEs and contract workers)
• Exposure to vendor/outsourcing models and budget management
• Proficiency in analytics and modeling tools (Excel, Power BI, Python, R, etc.)
• Excellent communication and influencing skills with senior collaborators
• Strong project management skills with a track record of delivering impactful insights on time
• Experience supporting pipeline strategy, launch readiness, or global brand teams
• Leadership experience in building and developing high performance teams, delivering results, and shaping the future

What you can expect of us

As 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.

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards Plans that are aligned with local industry standards.

Apply now and make a lasting impact with the Amgen team.

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As 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.

Amgen 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.

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.