Sr. Manager of Manufacturing, Manufacturing Services

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.

Let’s do this! Let’s change the world! In this vital role you will lead our Manufacturing Services team. This role is accountable for ensuring the safe, compliant, and efficient operations within Raw Material Weigh and other process support operations. The Sr. Manager will oversee all activities associated with GMP support of manufacturing areas and equipment, ensuring they meet current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP), Good Distribution Practices (GDP), and other applicable regulations.

This role is essential to maintaining the safety, purity, quality, and effectiveness of our products while fostering a high-performance team culture aligned with Amgen’s leadership attributes.

• Oversee and ensure all GMP support manufacturing activities are conducted in a compliant, agile, and cost-effective manner.
• Ensure that products are manufactured, tested, stored, and distributed according to cGMP, GDP, and other applicable regulations and specifications.
• Lead investigations, corrective actions, and preventative actions associated with process deviations/non-conformances, adapting strategies as needed to maintain high standards of quality and compliance.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate risks to ensure the safety, purity, quality, and effectiveness of manufactured products, developing contingencies to address potential challenges.
• Develop a successful team, building technical and leadership capabilities to meet current and future business needs.
• Ensure controlled documents for the area of responsibility are maintained, with active owners assigned for periodic reviews.
• Alert senior management of significant quality, compliance, supply, and safety risks.
• Accountable for the functional key performance indicators and evaluations for Management Reviews.
• Plan and oversee GMP activities for assigned areas.
• Support and drive Continuous Improvement initiatives, programs, and projects.
• Serve as the subject matter expert for the functional area during health authority inspections.

• Develop and implement departmental strategies and plans that align with the broader site strategy.
• Champion functional transformation and institutionalize best practices in processes, practices, business models, and governance.
• Anticipate risks and build contingencies to mitigate their impact, ensuring timely and effective responses to challenges.
• Deliver strong business results and be accountable for functional key performance indicators.
• Lead and/or participate in Amgen network initiatives.

• Demonstrate personal credibility and build strong working relationships across organizational and geographical boundaries.
• Ensure the right people and resources are in place and optimally allocated to achieve results.
• Foster an environment that encourages accountability, innovation, continuous improvement, learning, and knowledge-sharing.
• Ensure effective decision-making and clear, timely communication…