Supplier Relationship Management Mgr

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.

Supplier Relationship Management Manager

Let's do this. Let's change the world. In this vital role you will be responsible for leading a group of small to medium-sized supplier relationships. This includes leading supplier engagement and cross-functional teams with clear accountability for performance to ensure the supply, quality, and cost of raw materials from our global network of suppliers consistently meets the needs of our manufacturing operations.

The Supplier Relationship Manager will also work with a cross-functional team and external supplier network to lead various initiatives to advance the Single-use raw material category strategy. Lastly, the role includes driving continuous improvement to optimize current ways of working.

• 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.
• Travel 10%:
  Domestic and International

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek is a leader with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

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

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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,…