Sourcing Excellence Manager

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.

Sourcing Excellence Manager

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What you will do

Let's do this. Let's change the world. In this vital role you will be part of Amgen's Sourcing and Excellence team out of the Amgen Capability Center located in Tampa, Florida. The Sourcing Excellence Manager will have an opportunity to work closely with Information Systems functions. The Sourcing Excellence Manager will report to the Senior Manager, Sourcing Excellence Information Systems.

At Amgen, our mission is simple: to serve patients. Our new Tampa Capability Center provides essential services that enable us to better pursue this mission. This state-of-the art center serves as a base for finance, information systems, and human resources professionals to make a meaningful impact at one of the world's leading biotechnology companies.

• Provide support to Information Systems

• Support and implement the sourcing and purchasing needs of Amgen's US based spend across all the above categories

• Implement sourcing (eRFX) for the Global (GCM) Category Management Teams

• Advise on the Procurement Process and Systems ensuring compliance with all relevant sourcing policies and procedures

• Provide expertise on contracting, leading contracting activities, managing ongoing contract management needs (for Strategic and Supply Constrained Categories

• Accountable for hand-off to Contract-to-Pay teams

• Implement Global/Regional Sourcing Strategies

• Work is guided by operational and project related objectives defined by GCM/RCM

• Delivering value to customers and partners through understanding business goals

• Supports / Manages delivery and validation of savings for Global Category Managers

• Anticipates and prevents potential problems through root cause analysis

• Ensure Amgen's procurement policies are followed, ensuring that compliance metrics are met or exceeded, supported through preferred supplier contracts

• Ability to travel up to 10%, domestic

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What we expect of you

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

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree

Or

Master's degree and 2 years of Sourcing, Management Consulting, Project Management or IT / IS program management experience

Or

Bachelor's degree and 4 years of Sourcing, Management Consulting, Project Management or IT / IS program management experience

Or

Associate's degree and 10 years of Sourcing, Management Consulting, Project Management or IT / IS program management experience

Or

High School Diploma/GED and 12 years of Sourcing, Management Consulting, Project Management or IT/IS program management experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with sourcing processes (tendering, supplier negotiations and contracting) across multiple countries, across multiple spend categories

• Strong experience in Project Management and independently develops practical solutions (Planning, prioritizing and delivery), with experience in leading project teams across geographic and functional reporting lines

• Strong understanding of Information Systems Services

• Experience using e-procurement tools such as Ariba, Sirion, and/or Scout.

• Ability to provide thought leadership to customers and actively shape customer's overall strategy while understanding business goals

• Excellent communication skills (presentation, virtual team development, etc.) resulting in relationship building and development

• Strong problem-solving skills

• Able to work with minimal direction, ensuring quality of tasks / service provided by self and other

• Applies analytical skills to evaluate and interpret complex situations using different information sources in order to draw and present analytic insights

• Highly proficient with MS Office Suite, including Excel

• Fluent business English, written and oral

Thrive

What you can expect of us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for our teammates' professional and personal growth and well-being.

The expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is posted. Actual salary will vary based on several factors including but not limited to, relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.

Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan comprising health and welfare plans for staff and eligible dependents, financial plans with opportunities to save towards retirement or other goals, work/life balance, and career development opportunities including:

• Comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions, group medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts.

• A discretionary annual bonus program, or for field sales representatives, a sales-based incentive plan

• Stock-based long-term incentives

• Award-winning time-off plans and bi-annual company-wide shutdowns

• Flexible work models, including remote work arrangements, where possible

Apply now

for a career that defies imagination

Objects in your future are closer than they appear. Join us.

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Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider you without regard to your race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.