Manager Onsite

Position: Manager, Incentive Compensation - Onsite

Career Category

Corporate Services

Job Description 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.

Manager, Incentive Compensation What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will be involved in the following:

Incentive Plan Design and Modeling

• Design, develop, and implement field incentive compensation (IC) plans that align with brand strategies and sales goals.
• Build financial models to simulate plan performance under various scenarios using real and projected data.
• Conduct historical analysis and “what-if” simulations to evaluate plan effectiveness, fairness, and alignment.

Contest Design

• Create and manage short-term incentive contests (SPIFs) and tactical bonus programs to support product launches or boost performance.
• Analyze data to define contest eligibility, metrics, goals, and payout curves.
• Develop rules documents and communication materials for field engagement.
• Track contest performance and manage end-to-end execution from concept through payout.

Health Check Analytics and Plan Monitoring

• Develop and run regular health checks to monitor plan effectiveness, payout distribution, and motivational integrity.
• Identify anomalies, outliers, or gaming behaviors and recommend corrective actions.
• Provide monthly/quarterly dashboards and insights to Sales Leadership on IC plan performance.
• Monitor alignment between incentive outcomes and commercial KPIs such as sales performance and call activity.

IC Operations and Program Administration

• Own the quarterly IC calculation process, including data validation, payout calculations, and quality control checks.
• Manage IC operations calendar, ensuring timely execution of all activities across plan cycles.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for field inquiries related to IC payouts, sales data used in IC calculations, eligibility, and policies.

Field Communication and Enablement

• Prepare IC plan documents, FAQs, and communication decks to support field understanding and adoption.
• Respond to field escalations with data-backed justifications and empathetic communication.

Compliance, Governance, and Documentation

• Maintain documentation of IC plan rules, calculations, exceptions, and approvals for audit readiness.
• Ensure all IC activities comply with internal controls, legal guidance, and industry regulations (e.g., OIG guidelines).

What we expect of you

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

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree

OR

Master’s degree and 3 years of Incentive Compensation or Sales Ops/Analytics experience Or Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of Incentive Compensation or Sales Ops/Analytics experience Or Associate’s degree and 10 years of Incentive Compensation or Sales Ops/Analytics experience Or High school diploma / GED and 12 years of Incentive Compensation or Sales Ops/Analytics experience

In addition to meeting at least one of the above requirements, you must have experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs, or directing the allocation or resources. Your managerial experience may run concurrently with the required technical experience referenced above.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Relevant Bio/Pharmaceutical…