SAP Principal Architect, Transportation Management

Career Category

Information Systems

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. 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.

SAP Principal Architect - Transportation Management  

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will be a thought leader who helps to drive Amgen’s digital and innovation ambitions. Leveraging SAP S/4 TM architecture standards and through alignment of digital strategy and solutions to business outcomes, you will optimize the value of our technology investments, creating new value for our staff, our business partners, our shareholders and most importantly – our patients.

As a SAP TM Solution Architect you will:

• Be accountable for helping drive the successful design, architecture, build, test and implementation SAP S/4 Transpiration management solution across all the Amgen manufacturing and distribution sites.
• Partner with business leads, business engagement teams to support the development of business cases for delivering the IT roadmap and Business strategy
• Collaborate with Business, Operations IS and ERP solution architects (Order-to-Cash, Record to Report, Source to Settle) for cross functional integrations and E2E solution design.
• Serve as solution owner for the SAP transportation management solutions within the global ERP architecture team.
• Lead continuous improvements to drive IT effectiveness with the business and IT
• Collaborate with business and operations IS teams to identify future business needs and prioritize resources/effort to support the delivery of business-critical projects, enhancements and process improvements.
• Deliver on portfolio investments and ensure business value outcomes are realized based on prioritized business needs
• Drive implementation of cross functional initiatives required for regulatory compliance
• Uses deep business knowledge to drive engagement on major IT initiatives
• Influence architecture decisions and solution choices with business stakeholders and enterprise architects
• Manage Implementation vendor to ensure the effective execution of the projects and services, holding them accountable to project scope, SLAs and critical metrics
• Drive configuration and development activities to meet business requirements through a combination of internal and external teams
• Ensure all the required functional, configuration and technical design documents of SAP TM capabilities are created in compliance with GxP requirements and ERP architecture standards.
• Support Validation/QA teams on ensuring GxP compliance of SAP TM capabilities with the corporate standard for IT change management and IT SOPs following 21 CFR Part 11 and Annex 11 requirements
• Promotes adoption of SAP industry best practices within in S/4 transportation management and logistics execution workstream.

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What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The proactive, self-motivated, collaborative, and passionate professional we seek is a leader with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree and 2 years of SAP TM implementation experience

OR

Master’s degree and 6 years of SAP TM implementation experience

OR

Bachelor’s degree and 8 years of SAP TM implementation experience

OR

Associate’s degree and 10 years of SAP TM implementation experience

OR

High school diploma / GED and 12 years of SAP TM implementation experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• 10 to 15 years of experience in SAP Transportation Management with minimum of  3 to 4 end to end S/4 TM implementations.
• Good under