Strategic Sourcing Lead, Capital & Facilities

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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 Sourcing Lead, Capital & Facilities

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will oversee the operations and management of Procurement’s Capital & Facilities Strategic Sourcing team at Amgen. This position will play an accountable role in driving the team’s execution and delivery of strategic sourcing priorities in line with Amgen’s Engineering committed financial targets and goals while maintaining compliance with regulatory requirements and driving continuous improvement in procurement against Amgen’s Capital Plan. Reporting to Procurement’s Business Partner Lead for Capital Construction & Equipment, you will develop and implement the procurement sourcing strategies for Engineering to address business needs while achieving best practice outcomes.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Lead Global Procurement’s Capital & Facilities Strategic Sourcing team, providing direction, mentorship, and execution leadership to achieve business goals through supplier sourcing and partnering; actively challenge work to deploy the most comprehensive and creative solutions; remove barriers for team to ensure its ability to implement sourcing deliverables.
• Drive continuous improvement through sourcing initiatives by identifying opportunities & inefficiencies, recommending solutions for YoY value capture of savings, and implementing strategic outcomes drive out of Global Procurement’s Category Management team.
• Champion ownership and delivery of annual savings and value plans across Amgen’s Capital & Facilities sourcing plans that alignment with category and business strategies delivered against Finance’s annual budget plan
• Be a trusted advisor to Engineering – with ability to grow and maintain influence of Sourcing Agenda with business executives
• Be a Procurement leader with strong financial competence, experienced with accountability to business partner with Capital Finance executives
• Develop team capabilities and cultivate a culture of diversity and inclusion, with a commitment to continuous improvement in sourcing & contracting processes, tools and operating model; Develop goals and prioritize team's work among multiple initiatives; Managerial courage to provide performance feedback
• Support Sourcing Managers to connect the dots and translate strategic programs into sourcing deliverables and outcomes
• Curate supplier partnerships while deepening Sourcing team’s knowledge of external supplier capabilities and innovative opportunities, accessed though Strategic Sourcing
• Identify and mitigate supply risk while ensuring Sourcing deliverables adhere to regulatory requirements (e.g., GLP, GMP, ISO) and drive business performance while connecting outcomes to business goals and performance metrics
• Monitor and report on Strategic Sourcing performance metrics, making necessary adjustments to meet organizational goals and finding opportunities for cost savings and process improvements.
• Evaluate and implement, through Sourcing, process improvement, environmental sustainability & supplier diversity and automation initiatives to enhance operational efficiency and support long-term goals.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of industry standards and best practices, maintaining and evolving Amgen’s contractual position in order to drive competitive advantage for Amgen.

What we expect of you

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

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree and 3 years of Procurement, Supply Chain, Manufacturing or Operations (preferably in a regulated industry) experience

Or

Master’s degree and 7 years of Procu