Global Category Senior Manager - Software

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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.

Global Category Senior Manager - Software

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will be responsible for efficient and effective ownership for all Software spend at Amgen. This role will represent Amgen’s ambition to best-in-class Global Category Management for one of our key global categories of spend. This leader will play a strategic role in business partnering with technology and business functions developing multi-year category plans that address business needs while achieving standard process outcomes; activating Procurement resources to drive strategic sourcing results to reduce costs and enable topline performance.

As a Global Category Senior Manager you will

• Be Accountable for developing multi-year strategies that establish priorities and goals within Amgen for both business stakeholders and Procurement

• Develop strategies that deliver measurable value beyond cost savings, emphasizing efficiency and long-term impact.

• Highlight total cost of ownership (TCO) reduction, operational efficiencies, and risk management as key priorities.

• Be a thought partner and actively challenge work, to deploy the most comprehensive and creative solutions; furthermore, removes barriers for the team to execute seamlessly.

• Lead and influence customer groups with 'outside in thinking,’ articulating recommendations with quantifiable and predictable financial benefits

• Demonstrate connected thinking and strategy beyond the category and task at hand with pull through in understanding how marketing services are used in Amgen.

• Full accountability for Global Category Strategy, acting as an ambassador for the Procurement function and the key point of contact for the category

• Be accountable for executive relationship management related to Software category strategy topics

• Own supplier relationship development important to the category, including development of SRM capabilities where needed to enable category goals

• Develop category goals and prioritize work among multiple initiatives

• Partner with business owners on best-in-class supplier management program

• Stay ahead of emerging software trends such as SaaS, cloud computing, and vendor consolidation

What we expect of you

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

Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree and 2 years of Procurement experience; OR

• Master’s degree and 4 years of Procurement experience; OR

• Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of Procurement experience; OR

• Associate’s degree and 10 years of Procurement Accounting experience; OR

• High school diploma / GED and 12 years of Procurement experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Tenured Category Management expertise in software, with deep knowledge of internal / external factors impacting the category

• Global Category Management with a consistent track record of executive business partnering leading change and enterprise activation of sourcing initiatives driven from expert knowledge of marketplace capabilities

• Previous experience managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs or advising the allocation of resources

• Ability to thrive in environment of high uncertainty and constant change

• Supplier Selection, Negotiation and/or Buying Outside Spend experience

• Excellent analytical, problem solving and organizational skills

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