Senior Manager, Transformation Analytics - Hyderabad / Secunderabad, Telangana - Amgen Technology Private Limited

Description

What you will do

In this vital role you will be a member of the Transformation Analytics team, supporting Amgens Technology & Workforce Strategy. We are seeking a highly motivated leader who will maximize financial and data analytics with critical thinking to enable enterprise-wide workforce transformation by connecting data across our people, finances and capabilities to enable business insights and decisions. In this role, you will lead and supervise an Analytics pod consisting of 1-3 junior resources.

You will be responsible to deliver critical analytics and insights throughout the value journey, including developing resource, financial and capability baselines, developing taxonomies, analytics data packs, business cases, value confirmation and value realization. In addition, you will collaborate with our Technology teams to support ongoing automation and continuous improvement. Ultimately, you will lead a team that will enable development of a sustainable platform for ongoing transformation.

The ideal candidate will leverage their analytical acumen to challenge the status quo, drive continuous improvement, and embed digital ways of working into our end-to-end processes.

• Team Leadership: Lead a small pod of 1-3 analysts to support key deliverables below
• Lead development of deliverables for workforce strategy: Lead team to deliver financial and data analyses across baselining, 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: Lead 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: Direct 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:

• Supervise small team focused on the development of comprehensive resource and financial analyses for Tech and workforce strategy program
• Lead reporting of insights on Tech & Workforce Strategy program
• Manage creation of complex cases, incorporating multiple data sources
• Manage data validation of the Value Confirmation analysis, review executive summary outputs
• Direct teams in identifying and reconciling deviations from the approved case
• Lead analysis efforts to optimize workforce and resource allocation, driving efficiency across the business
• Lead development of models for long-term planning and decision-making, ensuring strategic alignment
• Facilitate data integration across multiple teams to ensure insights are aligned with business priorities and performance objectives
• Provide guidance for design and implementation of automated data workflows for complex datasets, collaborating with business and IT teams to expand automation and integrate 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 partners to demonstrate single source of truth of transformation data being built in OPI&A (Organization planning, insights & analytics)

Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree and 2 years of Data Analytics / Finance experience OR
• Masters degree and 8 to 10 years of applicable experience OR
• Bachelors degree and 10 to 14 years of data science, finance, business, statistics, applied mathematics, business analytics, engineering, computer science or related field experience OR
• Diploma and 14 to 18 years of Data Analytics, Science & Technology Management or Finance experience
• 4+ 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:

• Masters degree in finance, data science, business, sciences statistics, data mining, applied mathematics, business analytics, engineering, computer science or related field, or Chartered Accountant and 6-8 years of relevant experience in consulting and/or financial planning & analysis (MBA Preferred)
• Mastery of complex financial modeling (Excel)
• 4+ years of managerial experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs or directing the allocation of resources
• 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
• Familiar with scripting languages like SQL or Python, and AWS services like S3 and Redshift
• Experience with data analysis, data modeling, and data visualization solutions such as Tableau, Alteryx, Databricks, PowerBI
• Experience performing data analysis across one or more areas of the business to derive business logic for data integration
• 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:

• 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.