Supply Chain Manager

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Job Description

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. 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.

Supply Chain Manager

What you will do

Let’s do this! Let’s change the world!

Development Supply Chain (DSC) is responsible for the end-to-end delivery of products, process knowledge and technology solutions to enable Amgen’s accelerate product commercialization. DSC serves as a launch site to enable speed to market for the company's innovative products and biosimilars. DSC arranges and ensures the product needed for Amgen’s clinical trials is available globally. DSC serve patients around the globe and ensure investigational product is at the clinics for the patients to receive their dose on time.

The Global Study Planning (GSP) team, within DSC, is responsible for forecasting & planning the inventory in centralized warehouse and local hospitals. The planners apply Demand management and Supply Planning processes and assumptions in a regulated environment to ensure product supply to patients.

The Global Study Planner (GSP) manager is pivotal role and supports all aspects of Demand and Supply Planning processes. The GSP manager ensures Finished Drug Product (FDP) supplies from study start throughout last patient dosed and has ownership of the planning aspects throughout the durations of the clinical studies and programs assigned until study closure. The GSP manager is responsible to ensure supply and to monitor inventory at all central locations and hospitals per study plans whilst minimizing product waste and optimizing and improving reliability, responsiveness, and stability of supply.

In addition, the successful candidate will manage continuous improvement projects to advance Demand and Supply Planning methodologies in alignment with the department’s goals and aspirations under minimal direction. The successful candidate will lead projects and collaborate with cross functional teams and influence other functions and departments to ensure appropriate prioritization of Demand and Supply planning.

• Translate Clinical Development product requirements of complex studies into an executable global supply plan, and ensure planning systems and tools are updated to reflect the product requirements as applicable

• Utilize systems autonomously to effectively manage products such as the Forecasting system/tool, SAP, Hospital inventory and dosing system, Dashboard controls and internal documents as a source for daily activities

• Effectively manage product considering enrollment projections, the demand uncertainty, drug product availability, shelf life and scrap risk within management guidance

• Proactively assess inventory positions (FDP) and execute plans to drive these to target volumes

• Effectively communicate and lead forecasting and demand efforts, including key stakeholder meetings, to ensure the adequacy of supply/re-supply strategies and alignment

• Actively participate in cross functional planning meetings to ensure that program/project priorities needs and timelines are met

• Serve as the primary interface with Clinical Development, Quality, and Regulatory Affairs to ensure coordination of all activities necessary to maintain the forecast and ensure an adequate supply plan

• Maintain inventory target levels as required at the depots and the clinics to ensure uninterrupted supply

• Initiate production and stock transfers request on-time to meet labeling, packaging, and shipment of supplies. Indicate ratio, volume and timing of packaging and shipment of packed supplies

• Identify risk to study timelines or clinical supplies, from a supply chain perspective, develop mitigation plans, and effectively communicate to all key partners and internal management

• Monitors Key Performance Indicators (e.g., Safety, Qua