Manager Manufacturing Programs

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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.

Manager Manufacturing Programs

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will interact broadly across the site to implement key business results, quality initiatives, and continuous improvement projects. These roles will focus on supporting product introductions, project management and plant support for AR5 and AR30.

Seeking a dedicated and experienced Lead to manage project deliverables, establish processes, and oversight of team members. The ideal candidate will be responsible for the performance of their team, ensuring quality standards and continuous improvement within their area of responsibility.

This role requires a proactive leader who can anticipate challenges, foster a collaborative environment, and drive continuous improvements in processes while maintaining high-quality standards.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Lead programs to manage project deliverables, establish issue resolutions, and provide guidance to team members.

• Oversee the performance of team members, ensuring they meet quality standards and continuously improve.

• Support new product introductions, ensuring staff is equipped to handle new challenges.

• Develop, implement, and assess solutions for complex problems, providing clear direction to team members.

• Anticipate risk and builds contingencies to help mitigate impact

• Ensuring right first-time implementation of changes through on the floor user testing and collection of staff feedback.

• Communicate and escalate issues to stake holders effectively, ensuring transparency and prompt resolution.

• Provide and analyzes data to support management evaluation of team and process performance trends

• Offer subject matter expertise in relevant areas, guiding team members with specialized knowledge.

• Own quality records (change control, CAPA, deviations) and deliver to timelines

• Identify and autonomously implement continuous improvement opportunities

• Foster collaboration with Quality, Process Engineering, Regulatory, and Process Development teams to ensure cohesive improvements. Effectively collaborate with stake holders and drive new business processes to ensure continuous and sustained improvement.

• Own and author critical standard operating procedures and supporting documentation/training.

What we expect of you

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

Basic Qualifications:

• High school diploma / GED and 12 years of Manufacturing or Operations experience OR

• Associate’s degree and 10 years of Manufacturing or Operations experience OR

• Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of Manufacturing or Operations experience OR

• Master’s degree and 3 years of Manufacturing or Operations experience OR

• Doctorate degree

In addition to meeting at least one of the above requirements, you must have experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs, or directing the allocation or resources. Your managerial experience may run concurrently with the required technical experience referenced above.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Hands on experience facilitating problem solving and root cause investigations in a biotechnology environment

• Strong project management skills with ability to multi-task and function in a dynamic environment

• Excellent communication skills, drive, and sense of urgency, energy level and pro