Senior Manager Manufacturing Production Process Owners

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‑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.

In this vital role you will be a people leader and cross‑functional integrator responsible for end‑to‑end process governance and execution support within Drug Product Supply operations at the Thousand Oaks campus. This role ensures the site maintains a strong operating system for manufacturing readiness, technical governance, issue resolution, and continuous improvement across multiple unit operations and enabling processes, with accountability for driving alignment across key site forums, priorities, and decision‑making bodies.

• Lead, coach, mentor, and develop the manufacturing process owners within the manufacturing organization.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, accountability, and high performance across the team.
• Provide guidance, performance feedback, and support for career development plans for direct reports.
• Set clear priorities, define role clarity, and establish coverage plans so the PPO team can flex across site needs, emerging issues, and evolving operational demands.

• Ensure strong collaboration and coordination between Manufacturing and key partners such as Quality, Facilities and Engineering, Automation, Supply Chain, Maintenance, and other site functions.
• Provide governance and execution support to ensure smooth, compliant, and reliable manufacturing operations.
• Manage and improve manufacturing processes to increase productivity, reduce waste, and maintain product quality and compliance.
• Strengthen process discipline, documentation quality, and operational readiness across site processes.
• Serve as an escalation point for complex execution topics, ensuring issues are evaluated, decisions are made with the right stakeholders, and actions are closed with discipline.

• Ensure manufacturing activities are performed in compliance with cGMP and all applicable regulatory requirements and internal quality standards.
• Support inspection and audit readiness by ensuring appropriate documentation, escalation pathways, and governance transparency.
• Support site teams that own compliance‑critical programs, including aseptic compliance and validation‑related execution, by helping prioritize resources and drive timely resolution of issues.
• Ensure disciplined execution and timely closure of quality actions, CAPAs, and effectiveness verification activities in partnership with Quality and subject‑matter experts.
• Support and reinforce a strong safety culture and a safe working environment for all employees.

• Provide oversight and drive process improvement initiatives aimed at increasing efficiency, improving reliability, reducing costs, and enhancing the drug product manufacturing process.
• Use lean manufacturing and other continuous improvement tools to identify opportunities and optimize operations.
• Analyze operational and quality data to identify trends, solve complex problems, and implement corrective actions.

• Partner with site stakeholders to ensure readiness for new processes, new products, and major operational changes.
• Support risk identification, issue resolution, and execution…