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Manager, Continuous Improvement

Job in New Albany, Franklin County, Ohio, 43054, USA
Listing for: Amgen Inc.
Full Time position Listed on 2026-11-13
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Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 120818 - 163459 USD Yearly USD 120818.00 163459.00 YEAR

Job Description & How to Apply Below

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-drive 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.

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this role the Manager, Continuous Improvement (CI) provides leadership for the site’s CI organization and drives the development, execution, and sustainment of improvement programs to unlock capacity and scale growth. The role leads and develops the CI team, builds CI capability across the site through Yellow Belt and Green Belt programs, serves as the site’s representative and lead (as needed) within the global CI network, and partners with manufacturing and cross-functional leaders (example: engineering, supply chain, quality, DTI) to identify and execute improvement priorities.

The position combines people leadership, CI capability building, strategic program leadership, cross-functional influence, and operational improvement to strengthen the site’s continuous improvement culture and deliver measurable business results.

Key Responsibilities
  • Continuous Improvement Team Leadership Lead, coach, and develop the CI team in Lean, Six Sigma structured problem-solving, project management, facilitation, and change management, building ownership and leadership capability. Align priorities and resources with site objectives; set clear expectations for execution, stakeholder engagement, documentation, and sustainment while fostering accountability, collaboration, and measurable results.
  • Site CI Strategy & Program Leadership Partner with site and functional leaders to translate manufacturing challenges and site objectives into a prioritized CI portfolio. Lead complex, cross-functional programs and establish portfolio governance, including ownership, milestones, success measures, escalation, and leadership reporting on progress, risks, and support needs.
  • CI Capability Building & Belt Programs Coordinate Yellow Belt and Green Belt programs, aligning course planning, participants, instructors, and subject-matter experts with site development needs. Coach and mentor employees in applying consistent Lean and Six Sigma problem-solving methods to business challenges, building capability to independently lead improvements.
  • Manufacturing Performance & Operational Excellence Lead data-driven improvements in manufacturing throughput, capacity, reliability, process flow, efficiency, quality, and equipment utilization. Apply structured problem-solving to identify root causes and prioritize opportunities; track performance and benefits and replicate successful improvements across manufacturing areas.
  • CI Culture & Engagement Champion employee participation in CI and embed data-driven problem-solving, root-cause analysis, experimentation, standardization, and learning…
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