Strategic Resource Planning Associate Director

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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.

Strategic Resource Planning Associate Director

What you will do

Let’s do this! Let’s change the world!

Operations Strategy & Business Resilience (OSBR) is a diverse internal management consulting arm of Operations that serves as trusted advisors to the company’s leaders in transformational and critical matters at the business perimeter. OSBR’s portfolio of work is comprised of Business Resilience and Intelligence (BR&I), identifies internal and external risks that can lead to business disruption; Drug Substance (DS) and Drug Product (DP) Network Strategy, develops and progresses Amgen’s manufacturing network strategy to meet business goals; Finished Drug Product (FDP) and Integrated Supply Strategy, partners with the FDP manufacturing network, quality, engineering, external supply and global logistics in developing the necessary set of actions to meet the Operation’s strategic business objectives; Commercialization and Transformation, strategizes commercial and pipeline program expertise, leads transformational operations, and drives business for new technologies and processes in collaboration with Process Development and other functions; Strategy Management, Analytics, Business Development (BD), and Governance, fosters innovation by integrating robust operational strategies, business development opportunities, analytics, and governance to enhance decision-making and achieve operational goals. Given our areas of expertise, OSBR’s first strategic goal is to attract, retain, advance and champion talent to enable a collegial and collaborative team that collectively will deliver the most comprehensive approach to problem-solving, strategic insights, and value generation.

We are seeking a highly motivated individual for the Strategic Resource Planning Associate Director role. You will be an integral member of a hard-working team chartered to deliver comprehensive analytics that support unbiased recommendations to build value for Operations. You will lead cross functional evaluations that impact Amgen’s supply chain, product portfolio and overall business and assist in shaping our long-term strategy. The role will be flexible in terms of geographic location.

Job Responsibilities

Advancing Operations strategy for optimization of the commercial product supply network (across drug-substance, drug-product, finished drug-product and distribution), while supporting advancement of Amgen’s innovative molecules and biosimilars product pipeline.

Examples of integrated OSBR-led assessments include:

• Leading cross-functional cases for capacity, productivity, network optimization and business resilience investments across the manufacturing supply chain network;

• Leading product commercialization decisions that define product supply chain strategy and launch readiness such at Product Governance (PG) Portals, format and scale, site selection decisions, life cycle management projects, business development due diligence; and

• Identifying and quantifying internal and external risks to the supply network and developing strategies to mitigate risk and create a more resilient supply chain.

Engaging with leaders across manufacturing network, process development, supply chain, finance, and other functions to align on operational, financial, and regulatory assumptions, priorities, and opportunities and risks to drive better outcomes for Amgen and Amgen operations.

Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders across Operations and adjacent functions (Product therapeutic area commercialization, Business Resilience and Business Intelligence, drug substance network, drug product network, finished drug product network, distribution, and business development), providing strategic counsel on the full spectrum of operational activities and business interfaces to improve Amgen’s l