Director, Transformation Analytics

Objectives of this Role

• Team Leadership: Lead 3 or more analytics pods, each staffed with a small team of analytics resources to support key deliverables below
• Lead development of deliverables for workforce strategy: Lead the team to deliver financial and data analyses across base-lining, business case, value confirmation, value extraction and value realization. Collaborate with cross-functional global teams to ensure accurate analytics and insights delivery operating in the 'following-the-sun' model
• Activity-Based Cost Analysis: Lead analyses of total workforce spend and allocation. Recommend strategic cost-saving initiatives and optimizations based on analysis findings.
• Vendor Analysis: Lead evaluation of vendor performance and impact on organizational efficiency. Develop strategies for vendor optimization and cost management.
• Opportunity Analysis: Lead identifying and prioritizing areas of opportunity across the organization. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement organizational improvements.
• System Updates & Scenario Modeling: Guide teams in integrating data across multiple systems and functions, to help optimize data and financial models that support key processes across the value journey of our transformation. Help ensure central systems and scenario modeling tools are updated with accurate data and assumptions. Lead the development of new modeling tools to enhance predictive capabilities.
• External Market Analysis: Guide the analysis of external market trends and their impact on workforce strategy. Provide strategic recommendations based on market insights to drive organizational competitiveness.

Job Responsibilities:

• Oversee multiple small teams focused on the development of comprehensive resource and financial analyses for Tech and workforce strategy program
• Direct the reporting of insights on Tech & Workforce Strategy program
• Provide leadership in building and maintaining functional ambitions for teams
• Oversee the creation of complex cases, incorporating multiple data sources
• Oversee data validation of the Value Confirmation analysis, review executive summary outputs
• Guide teams in identifying and reconciling deviations from the approved case
• Oversee analysis efforts to optimize workforce and resource allocation, driving efficiency across the business
• Oversee the development of models for long-term planning and decision-making, ensuring strategic alignment
• Oversee data integration across multiple teams to ensure insights are aligned with business priorities and performance objectives
• Oversee design and implement automated data workflows for complex datasets, collaborating with business and IT teams to expand automation and integrate it with existing systems
• Collaborate with cross-functional global teams to ensure accurate insights' delivery, operating in the 'following-the-sun' model
• Interact with various finance and resource planning groups across Amgen to understand impact to budget/long range plans
• Influence cross-functional key collaborators to leverage single source of truth of transformation data being built in OPI&A (Organization planning, insights & analytics)

What we expect of you

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Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree and 4 years of Data Analytics / Finance experience OR
• Masters degree and 14 to 16 years of Data Analytics / Finance experience OR
• Bachelors degree and 16 to 18 years of Data Analytics / Finance experience
• 6+ years of managerial experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs or directing the allocation of resources
• Leader who can connect the dots across matrixed organization
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel
• Passion for data exploration & visualization and building narratives to drive data-driven business transformation
• Intellectual curiosity, with ability to learn new concepts, and methods
• Energy for applying technical skills to solving complex business problems with elegant data analyses and Digital Products
• Experience working in highly collaborative cross-functional environments
• Proficiency in financial modeling, data analytics and business intelligence tools
• Understanding of financial data and systems

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years of managerial experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs or directing the allocation of resources
• Mastery of complex financial modeling (Excel)
• Understanding of global Finance, HR & Procurement systems and data
• Understanding of HR/Procurement/Global Sourcing operations
• Experience in budgeting, forecasting, and strategic planning
• Understanding of impacts of business decisions to financial statements (P&L, B/S, Cash Flow)
• Understanding of / experience in the Bio-Pharmaceutical industry
• Business transformation experience involving recent technology advancements
• Prior multinational corporate experience (capability center or other)
• Experience with Oracles Hyperion/EPM, SAP, Anaplan, PowerBI / Tableau
• Experience with data analysis, data modeling, and data visualization solutions such as Tableau, Alteryx, Databricks, PowerBI
• Experience working with business partners to identify complex functionality and translate it into requirements
• Experience in preparing executive communication to include written and oral presentations.
• Experience in financial planning, analysis, and reporting, ERP systems and financial software

Soft Skills:

• Influence and persuasion skills
• Effective communication and people skills.
• Elevated level of integrity and ethical standards.
• Problem-solving and critical thinking capabilities.
• Ability to influence and lead change.
• Adaptability to a dynamic and challenging environment.

Skills Required
Data Analytics, Sap, Power Bi, Alteryx, Anaplan