Supplier Relationship Management Mgr

Amgen • Thousand Oaks, CA

4d • Hybrid

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. With our focus on four therapeutic areas –Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease– we reach millions of patients each year. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline of medicines to treat cancer, heart disease, inflammatory conditions, rare diseases, and obesity and obesity-related conditions. 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.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

• Excellent leadership, interpersonal skills, and influencing skills vertically and horizontally with integrity.
• Process oriented with business acumen.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal communication and writing skills.
• Managed and led medium to complex projects, comfortable with change and uncertainty.
• Extensive knowledge and expertise in the use of project management methodologies and tools, resource management practices and change management techniques.
• Ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic environment
• Knowledge of business principles, product development and commercialization or R&D in a life science, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device cGMP environment.
• GMP environment work experience and thorough understanding of biological/chemistry technology transfer processes and timelines.
• Strong analytical skills and knowledge of tools within MS Office, Smartsheet, ThinkCell, and other software programs.
• Strong organizational skills, strategic networking, self-motivation, collaboration and flexibility.
• Has demonstrated the courage and ability to solve technical problems and challenges in teams.
• Has proven communication skills (presents confidently and convincingly at all level of the organization).
• Expert skills in lead and managing people and team’s management of diverse cultures and geographic locations, conflict resolution with diplomacy.

Responsibilities

• Lead a group of small to mid-sized supplier relationships.
• Lead or support raw material issue resolution and problem solving.
• Manage executive critical issues and communication, as needed.
• Apply the knowledge, skills, tools of project management / Operational Excellence (OE) to ensure optimal execution of strategic and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Manage multiple cross-functional raw material onboarding and operational excellence projects of medium to high complexity including scheduling and facilitating meetings, documenting actions, driving decision making and handling customer issues of roadblocks.
• Actively oversee forecasting, capacity planning and project management.
• Coordinate securing supplier documentation, creation of and updating material onboarding related documents.
• Project management of resource planning, generating metrics/ critical metrics and presentation materials for management reviews and governance meetings.
• May include analysis and publication of monthly performance metrics for the Single Use category.
• Lead continuous improvement projects that deliver measurable gain in supply reliability, quality performance, and efficiency.
• Build and maintain a vast network of collaborators across all drug substance and drug product sites.
• Contribute to Raw Materials external intelligence insights including assessment of industry trends, technology advancement, and supplier landscape.

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: High school or GED