Global Partnership Supply Manager

Amgen • Thousand Oaks, CA

3d • $115,512 - $156,280

About The Position

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. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline and portfolio of medicines to treat heart disease, obesity and obesity-related conditions, rare diseases, inflammatory conditions and cancer. 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.
Global Partnership Supply Manager
What you will do
Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will play a critical role in driving Amgen’s commercial expansion and advancement of pipeline products through support of external collaborations. In this role, you will manage a Partnership portfolio within the team, ensuring the successful execution of the operations aspects of our external collaborations and increasing the strategic value and health of our partnerships. In addition, you will oversee current process execution, identify and enable opportunities for future improvements, standardize and document processes, and leverage technology to enhance efficiency and accuracy. Analytical thinking, financial foresight, and strong communication skills are imperative.

Requirements

• Doctorate degree OR Master’s degree and 2 years of Business, Engineering and/or Supply Chain experience OR Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of Business, Engineering and/or Supply Chain experience OR Associate’s degree and 8 years of Business, Engineering and/or Supply Chain experience OR High school diploma / GED and 10 years of Business, Engineering and/or Supply Chain experience

Nice To Haves

• Supply chain expertise: Experience with demand and supply planning, S&OP, forecasting, risk assessment, and product delivery in a regulated environment. Familiarity with GMP requirements and supply planning systems is an advantage.
• Partnership and agreement management: Experience managing external partners / supply agreements, with the ability to interpret contractual, quality, and licensing terms.
• Influence and alignment: Ability to coordinate teams across organizations and functions including Commercial, Finance, Quality, Legal, Alliance Management and Cost Accounting. Influence decisions without direct authority.
• Relevant technical knowledge: Experience using tools such as Power BI, Power Automate, SAP, Kinaxis, or equivalent systems to support supply planning, reporting, process automation, and decision-making. Familiarity with pharmaceutical manufacturing and CMC activities is an advantage.
• Communication and stakeholder management: Strong facilitation, negotiation, and presentation skills, including leading S&OP meetings, keeping teams accountable, and raising clear recommendations and risks to senior leaders. Ability to distill complex information into a logical, concise message.
• Inclusive collaboration: Demonstrated ability to work effectively and sensitively with diverse, multicultural teams.
• Problem-solving and continuous improvement: Ability to identify risks early, resolve issues with stakeholders, apply root-cause analysis, and use Operational Excellence methodologies to identify and implement improvements.
• Planning and execution: Strong project management skills to maintain plans, milestones, dependencies, decisions, and actions while delivering multiple priorities on time.
• Financial Acumen: Familiarity with basic costing models and ability to anticipate and understand potential financial implications of decisions

Responsibilities

• Ensure efficient, timely and quality supply of product to Amgen’s partners in accordance with all contractual obligations.
• Build effective working relationships across partner organizations and Amgen teams (PDT, Global Supply Chain, and other Ops teams).
• Lead cross-functional work within Amgen and across partner organizations on critical collaboration activities, including commercial demand and supply planning, transfer pricing, CMC variation strategy, product launches, manufacturing technology transfers, and scientific or technical data exchange.
• Provide supply chain guidance as a core member of one or more Product Delivery Teams (PDTs).
• Lead partner S&OP meetings and coordinate performance management with Amgen teams (ie commercial, finance, supply chain teams.)
• Manage partner demand forecasts and coordinate with the Amgen network to assess risks and align supply with contractual obligations.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for assigned partners, working across Legal, Quality, Alliance Management, Partner Accounting and Operations Finance to summarize key challenges and raise them to senior leadership.
• Provide functional input into collaboration, licensing, and quality agreements; own supply agreements; and contribute to financial modeling.
• Identify opportunities to increase the strategic value of partnerships and advocate for continuous improvement across collaborations and the Partnership Supply organization.
• Contribute to Partnership Supply strategy by using feedback and root-cause analysis to propose and deliver improvements, standard processes, and projects that strengthen collaboration and organizational capabilities.
• Keep people aligned through clear meetings, progress updates, and follow-through on commitments.
• Identify risks early, work with stakeholders to resolve them, and keep plans and decisions up to date.

Benefits

• A comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions, group medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts
• A discretionary annual bonus program, or for field sales representatives, a sales-based incentive plan
• Stock-based long-term incentives
• Award-winning time-off plans
• Flexible work models where possible.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed