Global Partnership Supply Manager

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HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?

You’ve worked hard to become the professional you are today and are now ready to take the next step in your career. How will you put your skills, experience and passion to work toward your goals? At Amgen, our shared mission—to serve patients—drives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies, reaching over 10 million patients worldwide. Come do your best work alongside other innovative, driven professionals in this meaningful role.

Global Partner Supply Manager

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What you will do

Let’s do this! Let’s change the world! In this vital role you play a critical role in driving the commercial expansion and advancement of our pipeline by ensuring the successful execution of the operations aspects of our external collaborations and maximizing the strategic value and health of our partnerships.

• Ensure efficient, timely and quality supply of product to Amgen’s partners in accordance with all contractual obligations
• Drive effective working relationships with Partner organizations, Product Delivery Teams, Supply Chain Teams, as well as other Operations and cross-functional teams
• Lead cross-functional teams both within Amgen and across Partner organizations in support of critical collaboration activities such as: commercial demand and supply planning; transfer pricing; CMC variation strategy; product launches; manufacturing tech transfers; and scientific or technical data exchange
• Lead S&OP meeting series with partners, and coordinate with Amgen collaborators (commercial, finance, supply chain, etc.) on a strategic approach for performance management.
• Manage partner demand forecast submissions and coordinate with Amgen network to assess feasibility, risks, and upside/downside potential to ensure supply in alignment with contractual obligations
• Serve as the primary point-of-contact for one or more Operation’s alliances interfacing across functions including Legal, Quality, Alliance Management, Cost Accounting, and Tax to summarize and highlight challenges to executive management
• Provide functional input into licensing, supply, and quality agreements as well as financial modeling
• Find opportunities to increase the strategic value of partnerships and advocate for continuous improvement within the collaboration
• Contribute to the Partnership Supply functional strategy, including the implementation of standard processes for managing collaborations and implementation of specific projects to drive organizational maturity
• Provide Supply Chain advisement as a core member of one or more Product Delivery Teams (PDTs)

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What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The dynamic professional we seek is a self-starter with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

• High school diploma / GED and 10 years of supply chain experience OR
• Associate’s degree and 8 years of supply chain experience OR
• Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of supply chain experience OR
• Master’s degree and 2 years of supply chain experience OR

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated ability to work in diverse multi-cultural teams with sensitivity
• Comfortable working effectively in highly dynamic environment both independently and as part of a team
• Understands and applies core end-to-end supply chain principles, particularly for biologics and/or pharmaceutical supply chain
• Familiarity with biologic and pharmaceutical product manufacturing process, lifecycle management and supply planning
• Project management experience with demonstrated ability to develop and maintain complex cross-functional timelines, identify key milestones and interdependencies, and anticipate risks
• Knowledge of Operational Excellence methodologies and ability to identify and implement opportunities for continuous improvement
• Experience with effectively managing and ensuring the health of complex third party relationships
• Familiarity with basic costing models and ability to anticipate and understand potential financial implications of decisions
• Displays fortitude and perseverance when receiving constructive feedback
• Communicates effectively with team leadership on a prepared and ad hoc basis with ability to distill complex information into a logical, concise message
• Strategic understanding of manufacturing and supply chain with ability to anticipate risks and develop practical solutions

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