Supply Chain Mgr

Amgen • Thousand Oaks, CA

23h • $105,011 - $142,073

About The Position

Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients. At Amgen, 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 a 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. In this vital role, you will join as a member of the Global Partnership Supply Chain team, playing a critical role in driving the commercial expansion and advancement of our pipeline by ensuring the successful execution of the operations aspects of our external collaborations and maximizing the strategic value and health of our partnerships. You will own end-to-end partner supply management while leading cross-functional initiatives that strengthen collaboration and drive operational excellence.

Requirements

• Doctorate degree OR Master’s degree and 2 years of supply chain experience OR Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of supply chain experience OR Associate’s degree and 8 years of supply chain experience OR High school diploma / GED and 10 years of supply chain experience.

Nice To Haves

• Demonstrated ability to work in diverse multi-cultural teams with sensitivity.
• Experience managing complex external partnerships and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong end-to-end supply chain expertise, ideally within biotech/pharma.
• Familiarity with biologic and pharmaceutical product manufacturing process, lifecycle management and supply planning.
• Project management experience with demonstrated ability to develop and maintain complex cross-functional timelines, identify key milestones and interdependencies, and anticipate risks.
• Knowledge of Operational Excellence methodologies and ability to identify and implement opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Commercial and financial acumen with the ability to assess trade-offs and risks.
• Displays fortitude and perseverance when receiving constructive feedback.
• Clear, concise communicator with strong stakeholder influence skills.

Responsibilities

• Ensure reliable, timely, and compliant product supply to partners in line with contractual commitments.
• Monitor and improve key performance metrics (e.g., OTIF, forecast accuracy).
• Drive effective working relationships with Partner organizations, Product Delivery Teams, Supply Chain Teams, as well as other Operations and cross-functional teams.
• Lead cross-functional teams both within Amgen and across Partner organizations in support of critical collaboration activities such as: commercial demand and supply planning; transfer pricing; CMC variation strategy; product launches; manufacturing tech transfers; and scientific or technical data exchange.
• Lead S&OP meeting series with partners, and coordinate with Amgen collaborators (commercial, finance, supply chain, etc.) on a strategic approach for performance management.
• Manage partner demand forecast submissions and coordinate with Amgen network to assess feasibility, risks, and upside/downside potential to ensure supply in alignment with contractual obligations.
• Serve as the primary point-of-contact for one or more Operation’s alliances interfacing across functions including Legal, Quality, Alliance Management, Cost Accounting, and Tax to summarize and highlight challenges to executive management.
• Provide functional input into licensing, supply, and quality agreements as well as financial modeling.
• Find opportunities to increase the strategic value of partnerships and advocate for continuous improvement within the collaboration.
• Lead or contribute to strategic projects within the team and represent Global Partnership Supply Chain team in broader organizational initiatives.
• Contribute to the Partnership Supply functional strategy, including the implementation of standard processes for managing collaborations and implementation of specific projects to drive organizational maturity.
• Provide Supply Chain advisement as a core member of one or more Product Delivery Teams (PDTs).

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: Mid Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees