Business Performance Associate Director

Role Summary

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. Location: United States, with hybrid or remote work depending on location.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Qualifications

• Required: Doctorate degree and 3 years of manufacturing or operations experience
• Required: Master’s degree and 5 years of manufacturing or operations experience
• Required: Bachelor’s degree and 7 years of manufacturing or operations experience
• Required: Associate’s degree and 12 years of manufacturing or operations experience
• Required: High school diploma / GED and 14 years of manufacturing or operations experience
• Preferred: Proven ability to partner cross-functionally to identify and enable technology-driven cost-of-sales improvement opportunities in manufacturing.
• Preferred: Experience with capital finance rules and policy.
• Preferred: Experience translating business performance into clear financial insights, tracking, and forecasts.
• Preferred: Demonstrated ability to lead network-wide, cross-functional initiatives that are both strategic and technical (e.g., program leadership, value tracking).
• Preferred: Experience integrating financial and operational data across ERP (SAP S/4), MES, and advanced analytics platforms.
• Preferred: Experience driving automation and standardization of performance metrics in a manufacturing or operations environment.