Business Performance Associate Director

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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.

Business Performance Associate Director

What you will do

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As the Business Performance Associate Director (GMST) , you will play a key role in enabling network-wide manufacturing performance by integrating strategic financial leadership, execution excellence, enterprise performance visibility, and digitally enabled measurement systems . This role supports the evolution of Amgen’s global manufacturing network by translating operational execution into clear, actionable financial insights.

The Global Manufacturing Strategy and Technology (GMST) organization serves as a trusted central resource that connects the manufacturing network across Operations. GMST drives alignment and collaboration by enabling consistent performance management, fostering cross-functional partnership, and accelerating agile, value-driven change through strategy, execution excellence, and innovative technologies.

In this role, you will integrate financial leadership, productivity optimization, cost-of-sales improvement, and digital transformation to deliver consistent financial reporting, operational visibility, and measurable value across the global manufacturing network.

Reporting to the GMST Lead, this role is both strategic and technical, leading network-wide programs that deliver measurable financial outcomes through performance management, innovative technology deployment, cost strategy, and execution. You will partner closely with site and functional FP&A teams and collaborate broadly across Operations functions (no direct reports).

This role ensures that manufacturing fulfillment, productivity, and cost-of-sales performance are consistently translated into actionable insights that enable better, faster, and more aligned decision-making across Amgen’s global manufacturing network.

Location / work model: This role is based in the U.S., with a hybrid or remote work model dependent on the candidate’s location.

Responsibilities include:

Scrap, Productivity, and Network Program Leadership:

• Serve as the Scrap and Manufacturing Process Waste Reduction Network Program Lead , including definition of measurement systems, visibility, and reporting for material, process, and performance-related waste.

• Act as Operations Productivity Lead , managing business productivity process implementation and ongoing evolution across the network.

• Partner with Site FP&A teams to align definitions, standardize financial measures, and ensure consistent application of productivity, scrap, labor, and cost-of-sales metrics across global manufacturing sites.

• Define and drive labor efficiency and workforce utilization optimization metrics , including financial impact assessment and prioritization insights to support workforce strategy decisions.

Digital Enablement, Data Integration, and Operational Visibility:

• Lead alignment of financial and operational performance metrics across SAP S/4, MES, and emerging AI-driven analytics solutions , in partnership with Operations Finance and AI & Data teams.

• Drive automation of next-generation manufacturing performance metrics to enable scalable, timely, and decision-ready insights.

• Ensure consistency and integrity of financial inputs supporting manufacturing execution, productivity, and cost-of-sales initiatives across the global manufacturing network.

• Enable end-to-end operational and financial insight to support achievement excellence and network-level prioritization.

Performance Measurement, Cost Attribution, and Forecasting:

• Establish performance measurement systems that translate business performance into financial insights, enabling fact-based decision-making.

• Drive capacity optimization analyses and develop cost attribution models that translate manufacturing execution and capacity decisions into clear financial impact to support network-level decision-making.

• Forecast financials, interpret trends, and guide prioritization of operational initiatives through strategic financial insights and trade-off analysis .

• Own ongoing tracking and reporting of outcomes and value realization .

Example KPIs:

• Scrap and waste (dollars and/or rate)

• Productivity value delivered

• Labor/resource utilization and efficiency

• Capacity utilization

• Cost-of-sales impact and/or key cost

• Net expense trends

Bend the Cost Curve (Cost of Sales Strategy and Execution):

• Lead the Bend the Cost Curve initiative for Manufacturing, defining initiatives and tracking value realization across the network.

• Provide enterprise-level financial governance and visibility for Bend the Cost Curve initiatives, ensuring consistent value measurement, execution tracking, and prioritization.

• Focus initiative design and execution across key levers including technology deployment, scrap/yield, labor, materials, capacity, process robustness , and other agreed cost-of-sales drivers.

• Build and maintain a clear view of initiative value, execution progress, and risks/issues .

Value Delivery and Continuous Improvement:

• Deliver financial value by fostering a culture of continuous improvement , with emphasis on scrap and waste reduction, productivity optimization, and cost-of-sales improvement.

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek is a strategic partner with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree and 3 years of manufacturing or operations experience OR

• Master’s degree and 5 years of manufacturing or operations experience OR

• Bachelor’s degree and 7 years of manufacturing or operations experience OR

• Associate’s degree and 12 years of manufacturing or operations experience OR

• High school diploma / GED and 14 years of manufacturing or operations experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven ability to partner cross-functionally to identify and enable technology-driven cost-of-sales improvement opportunities in manufacturing.

• Experience with capital finance rules and policy.

• Experience translating business performance into clear financial insights, tracking, and forecasts.

• Demonstrated ability to lead network-wide, cross-functional initiatives that are both strategic and technical (e.g., program leadership, value tracking).

• Experience integrating financial and operational data across ERP (SAP S/4), MES, and advanced analytics platforms .

• Experience driving automation and standardization of performance metrics in a manufacturing or operations environment.

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.

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.

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan, based on eligibility, comprising of 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 that may include:

• A 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

• Flexible work models where possible. Refer to the Work Location Type in the job posting to see if this applies.

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

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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.

Sponsorship

Sponsorship for this role is not guaranteed.

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