Contracts & Pricing Execution Mgr

Career Category Value and Access Job Description Manager, Medicaid – Contracts & Pricing Execution (AIN)  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.

As the Manager, Medicaid – Contracts & Pricing Execution (AIN), you will lead AIN-based execution of U.S. Medicaid rebate operations within the Contracts & Pricing Execution function. This role is responsible for managing Medicaid invoice processing, claim validation, CLD analytics, dispute management, payment package support, reporting, reconciliation, operational controls, documentation, and continuous improvement for a highly regulated U.S. Medicaid operating environment.  Reporting to the Senior Manager/Director, Contracts & Pricing Execution, you will partner closely with ATO Medicaid process owners, U.S.-based Government Pricing, Finance, Compliance, Contracting, Market Access, Information Systems, and AIN cross-functional teams to ensure accurate, compliant, scalable, and audit-ready Medicaid execution. The role will provide leadership to AIN-based associates and analysts supporting Medicaid operations while preserving appropriate ATO oversight for complex states, judgment-based decisions, approvals, and compliance ownership.

Medicaid Operations Management Lead end-to-end execution of U.S. Medicaid rebate operations within CPE, covering quarter setup, program readiness, invoice intake, claim loading, invoice validation, CLD processing, disputes, payment package preparation, payment execution support, reporting, and reconciliation.  Oversee operational delivery for standard-state Medicaid activities transitioning to AIN while ensuring complex-state issues, high-risk exceptions, approvals, and judgment-based decisions are appropriately escalated to ATO retained owners.  Manage workloads, state portfolios, invoice cycles, open items, exception inventories, dispute aging, payment timelines, and quarter-close deliverables to ensure accurate, timely, and compliant execution.  Establish operational discipline across trackers, KPI reporting, work allocation, service expectations, quality checks, readiness gates, and issue escalation routines.  Quarter Setup, Contract / Program Updates & URA Readiness Oversee Medicaid program setup and maintenance activities including supplemental program updates, customer/payee readiness, program term changes, and reference data coordination in Model N.  Coordinate with Government Pricing, Contracting, Finance, Compliance, Information Systems, and ATO Medicaid process owners to ensure pricing, URA publication, and program readiness steps are completed before invoice processing begins.  Ensure AIN execution teams follow SOP-aligned controls for AWP, URA, program updates, access reviews, and evidence retention, while ATO retains final oversight for complex contract interpretation and pricing/terms risk decisions.  Invoice Processing, Validation & CLD Analytics Lead Medicaid invoice receipt tracking, invoice conversion, Model N upload preparation, and first-pass validation for standard states