Senior Manager, R&D Operations

🕒 September 4

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $137.4k - $185.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚙️ Operations

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Amgen

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1980

🏥 Healthcare

🧬 Biotechnology

💊 Pharmaceuticals

💰 $28.5G Post-IPO Debt on 2022-12

Healthcare • Biotechnology • Pharmaceuticals

Amgen is a global leader in biotechnology, focusing on the development and commercialization of innovative medicines made from living cells. The company aims to treat serious illnesses, often targeting diseases with limited therapeutic options. Amgen emphasizes scientific innovation and is committed to ethical research, patient safety, and environmental sustainability. It actively engages in clinical trials and is known for its contributions to the fields of cancer treatment and obesity management among others.

📋 Description

• Lead end-to-end budget management and execution for assigned R&D organizations • Deliver annual budget planning, quarterly forecasts, close activities, leadership reporting, and financial deliverables • Partner with functional leadership and R&D Finance • Translate spending, portfolio, operational, resource, and business-priority changes into forecasts, risks, and recommended actions • Govern budget plans by reconciling actuals and commitments and identifying variances and spending trends • Lead collection, validation, challenge, and synthesis of planning assumptions and long-range spend drivers • Develop leadership-ready financial reporting, analyses, narratives, and decision-support materials • Support productivity initiatives, scenario development, and business cases • Enable capital and operating expense plans through forecasting, funding alignment, and tracking • Provide budget execution support across the procure-to-pay process and resolve escalated issues • Coordinate accruals, purchase order maintenance, forecast updates, and ad hoc financial exercises • Improve dashboards, reporting products, analytics, tools, processes, controls, cycle time, and scalability • Build partnerships across R&D, Finance, FP&A, Strategic Sourcing, transactional finance, and other stakeholders • Manage team members’ day-to-day activities, priorities, assignments, timelines, and expectations • Coach, train, and develop direct reports and team members • Allocate resources and adjust priorities as business needs evolve • Foster a collaborative, inclusive, customer-focused environment

🎯 Requirements

• Doctorate degree and 2 years of biotech/pharma business operations and/or financial analytics experience, OR Master’s degree and 4 years, OR Bachelor’s degree and 6 years, OR Associate’s degree and 10 years, OR high school diploma/GED and 12 years • Advanced degree in business, finance, life sciences, or a related field preferred • Experience in budget management, financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and variance/root-cause analysis • Experience leading professional employees and/or teams, projects, programs, or financial resources • Strong project and operational management experience • Working knowledge of the drug development process and R&D organizations • Ability to translate business priorities into financial forecasts and actionable insights • Experience developing executive- or leadership-level financial narratives, presentations, analyses, and decision-support materials • Ability to analyze complex information and identify trends, implications, risks, and actions • Proficiency with Tableau, Smartsheet, and Microsoft Teams • Advanced Excel skills and strong command of Microsoft Office • Experience with SAP, Ariba, and Anaplan • Ability to leverage automation, digital tools, and AI-enabled solutions • Experience driving continuous improvement and change • Ability to thrive in a complex, matrixed environment and influence without direct authority • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills • Strong relationship-building and customer-service skills • Ability to learn quickly, take initiative, develop others, and improve team execution • Sponsorship for this role is not guaranteed

🏖️ Benefits

• Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions • Group medical, dental and vision coverage • Life and disability insurance • Flexible spending accounts • Discretionary annual bonus program • Stock-based long-term incentives • Award-winning time-off plans • Flexible work models where possible • Career development opportunities • Reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities