Sr 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. 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.

SR MANAGER SUPPLY CHAIN (OPERATIONAL READINESS LEAD)

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this role, you will report to the Director, Supply Chain at ANC (Amgen North Carolina), and will serve as the primary Supply Chain Business Lead for the ANC2 expansion.  This is a highly visible leadership role supporting design, build, and startup of our newest facility.

This role is accountable for end-to-end Supply Chain operational readiness across Planning, Procurement, Materials Management, and Warehouse Operations to ensure successful facility startup and long-term operational excellence.

This Sr Manager will manage Supply Chain/Warehouse startup change control records, training, documentation, risk assessments, inspection readiness and manufacturing support.  The role will also represent Supply Chain in governance forums, capital project meetings, and design reviews to ensure that supply chain systems, material flows, storage strategies, and digital capabilities are embedded into the facility from design through Go-Live. As the startup is complete, this role will transition into ongoing supply chain operational leadership responsibilities within the organization. 

• Serve as the Supply Chain point of contact for ANC2 facility design, build, and startup
• Develop and own the integrated Supply Chain startup schedule aligned to overall project milestones
• Ensure readiness of warehouse and material flow design, planning systems and ERP (SAP/WM/EWM), master data creation, procurement enablement, and inventory strategy
• Identify and mitigate risks impacting supply chain startup timeline
• Lead cross-functional readiness tracking and milestone reporting
• Represent Supply Chain in design reviews, steering committees, and governance meetings
• Provide subject matter expertise on warehouse layout, storage strategy, logistics configuration, and inventory systems
• Develop warehouse capacity models aligned to DS production ramp
• Partner with Engineering, Facilities, Technology, Quality, and Manufacturing to ensure scalable processes
• Partner with Supply chain procurement team to establish supply strategies for startup and PPQ readiness
• Support development of DS production planning and capacity assumptions
• Ensure compliance with cGMP, GDP, EHS, and regulatory requirements
• Own or support change controls, deviations, CAPAs, SOPs, and risk assessments
• Develop Supply Chain business continuity and risk management plans
• Represent Supply Chain during audits and inspections
• Present readiness status, risks, and mitigation plans to Site leadership
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives using Amgen standard tools and methods
• Assess impact of new requirements, changes, processes, regulations to the department
• Act as Supply Chain / Warehouse representative in ANC2 cross-functional projects
• Develop solutions to Supply Chain and cross-functional business problems through in-depth analysis, coordination, and negotiation with key decision makers.
• Manage issues to resolution or escalation, when required
• Contribute to strategic decisions affecting ANC2 Supply Chain operations
• Build cross-functional relationships to develop and garner support for shared programs
• Influence a broad spectrum of partners toward achieving business goals

What we expect of you

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

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