Senior Manager, Incentive Compensation Administration Lead

Career Category Sales & Marketing Operations 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 lie within them, you'll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career. What you will do Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role, the Senior Manager, Incentive Compensation Administration Lead will provide senior leadership for the accurate, timely, compliant, and scalable administration of field incentive compensation programs. The role will lead delivery across internal and external teams in AIN and India, while managing relationships across a complex set of internal teams and functional groups. This is a high-impact role responsible for end-to-end IC administration and operations, including cycle delivery, data and calculation controls, payment readiness, governance, platform operations, and continuous improvement. The role will serve as a trusted operational partner to Amgen’s U.S. Commercial organization. Responsibilities Key Integrator: Act as the main point of contact and representative in India for the Incentive Compensation Administration team. Talent Development: Train, develop, and manage talent to meet organizational needs. Incentive Compensation Administration and Operational LeadershipLead the accurate, timely, and compliant administration of approved IC plans and compensation cycles, ensuring plan rules, governance requirements, internal controls, and business timelines are consistently met. Oversee end-to-end operational delivery across data intake, eligibility validation, crediting, calculation review, payment-file preparation, payout coordination, reconciliations, exception management, reporting, and post-payment validation. Monitor operational performance, payout trends, processing timelines, data-quality issues, field inquiries, and potential outliers; escalate material risks and drive appropriate corrective actions with stakeholders.