Health Care Contracting Senior Associate

Summary

Amgen is a biotechnology company focused on developing and delivering innovative medicines for serious illnesses. The Health Care Contracting Senior Associate executes healthcare contracting and payment activities for moderately complex engagements supporting the Research & Development organization, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant workflows. The role also coordinates cross-functional stakeholders, resolves issues, manages compliance activities, and supports process improvements.

Responsibilities

• Execute contracting activities across the lifecycle for moderately complex HCC engagements
• Draft, review, and process contracts using established templates, playbooks, and guidance
• Coordinate contract execution, documentation, and system updates
• Execute payment processing activities for assigned engagements
• Review invoices and expenses for accuracy and alignment with contractual terms
• Resolve discrepancies and ensure timely payment completion
• Triage incoming requests and route work in alignment with established processes
• Manage assigned workload to meet service levels and timelines
• Provide informal guidance to less experienced team members as needed
• Execute activities in accordance with healthcare compliance policies, SOPs, and systems (e.g., C3)
• Perform required compliance checks and ensure documentation completeness
• Identify and escalate risks, exceptions, or non-standard scenarios
• Partner with Legal, Sourcing, Finance, Accounts Payable, and Compliance to support execution
• Communicate requirements and respond to stakeholder inquiries
• Resolve moderately complex issues within established frameworks and guidance
• Escalate high-risk or ambiguous issues with appropriate context
• Support resolution of recurring operational issues
• Identify opportunities to improve workflows and efficiency
• Support implementation of process enhancements and audit activities

Skills

• Master's degree
• Bachelor's degree and 2 years of related resource management, paralegal, contracting and/or financial accounting experience
• Associate's degree and 6 years of related resource management, paralegal, contracting and/or financial accounting experience
• High school diploma / GED and 8 years of related resource management, paralegal, contracting and/or financial accounting experience
• Familiarity with legal, research and/or clinical development in biopharmaceutical industry as well as medical and scientific terminology
• Finance, resource, and/or budget management experience
• Experience with analytics software (Microsoft Access, Spotfire, Tableau, Smartsheet), document management applications, portfolio planning tools, supply chain and financial systems (Planisware, Veeva, SAP, Ariba)
• Intermediate Microsoft Office user (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook)
• Experience working with virtual teams and using collaborative tools and platforms
• Exceptional interpersonal, organizational, critical thinking and verbal/written communication skills
• Ability to work in a highly cross matrixed environment
• Planning and project management skills with the demonstrated ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment with multiple high priority projects and minimal supervision

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Master's degree
• Bachelor's degree and 2 years of related resource management, paralegal, contracting and/or financial accounting experience
• Associate's degree and 6 years of related resource management, paralegal, contracting and/or financial accounting experience
• High school diploma / GED and 8 years of related resource management, paralegal, contracting and/or financial accounting experience

Nice to Haves

• Familiarity with legal, research and/or clinical development in biopharmaceutical industry as well as medical and scientific terminology
• Finance, resource, and/or budget management experience
• Experience with analytics software (Microsoft Access, Spotfire, Tableau, Smartsheet), document management applications, portfolio planning tools, supply chain and financial systems (Planisware, Veeva, SAP, Ariba)
• Intermediate Microsoft Office user (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook)
• Experience working with virtual teams and using collaborative tools and platforms
• Exceptional interpersonal, organizational, critical thinking and verbal/written communication skills
• Ability to work in a highly cross matrixed environment
• Planning and project management skills with the demonstrated ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment with multiple high priority projects and minimal supervision

Benefits

• 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
• Stock-based long-term incentives
• Award-winning time-off plans
• Flexible work models where possible
• Career development opportunities
• Work/life balance
• Health and welfare plans for staff and eligible dependents
• Financial plans with opportunities to save towards retirement or other goals