Sr. Associate Procurement

You’ve earned your degree. How will you use that achievement to reach your goals? Do more with the knowledge you’ve worked hard to acquire and the passion you already have. 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. Become the professional you are meant to be in this meaningful role.

Sr. Associate Procurement

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What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role, you the Procurement Sr. Associate will join the Supply Chain Production Planning Team, which stands responsible for setting the pace of production in our Amgen biologic drug substance plant as well as handling raw material inventories to ensure supply. The Amgen Rhode Island location consists of a grown, large-scale production plant that produces 10 different biologic products and a ‘Manufacturing of the Future (MoF)’ single-use technology plant that was recently approved for commercial manufacturing.

The primary responsibility of this role will be supply planning, procurement, and management of raw materials, and management of supplier and customer relationships.

The expectations of this position include:

Knowledge & Technical Expertise

• Well-versed in supply chain concepts and inventory management theory.
• Procure materials using required systems and handle and optimize inventory levels, lead times, and safety products to ensure no stockouts
• Develop raw material inventory plans, including handling material transition analysis and performance.
• Maintain supply chain system (SAP, Rapid Response, MyBuy, etc) virtue and maintain purchasing documentation to cGMP standards.
• Monitor, assess, and revise targeted inventory levels in conjunction with changes in demand/supply variability.
• Release forecasts and orders to suppliers, analyze, consolidate, and report supply and demand to the various stakeholders in the company.
• Definition, creation, and ownership of business processes for handling inventory (e.g., Kanban processes and analysis of min/max)
• Ability to perform analysis and create processes and tools needed to handle material inventory and be able to assess the impact and adjust processes when the business environment changes.

Accountability & Responsibility

• Lead small team project and contributes to large cross-function project teams. Including build, analyzing, and managing data and reports to identify issues and opportunities for enhancing business performance.
• Track and analyze monthly performance metrics for adherence, accuracy, cycle times, and inventory investment. This includes understanding and contributing to the team’s performance board and communicating the board to management.
• Supports resolution of challenging issues and facilitates stakeholder inputs and outputs.
• Interact with Manufacturing, Process Development, and Engineering to develop specifications for new features and materials.
• Expanded ownership of GMP materials, systems, processes, and suppliers.
• Handles the receipt scheduling and testing of materials to implement labor and demand constraints.

Communication:

• Coordinates and facilitate cross-functional efforts to handle inventory (e.g., an expedition of material release to prevent/alleviate inventory shortages.)
• Presents status updates effectively and concisely in a group setting
• Clearly articulates goals and assesses improvement toward goal achievement
• Seeks feedback from customers analyzes results, and makes vital improvements
• Strong social skills and strength in communication and issue resolution with customers and suppliers and multiple levels in the organizations and aligned with Amgen values.
• Resolves minor conflicting priorities among partners when facilitating issue resolution.

Problem Solving & Decision Making:

• Develops solutions to problems of moderate scope and complexity to appropriately handle material inventory risk and ensure material supply.
• Leads teams to resolve issues and/or improve business processes.
• Demonstrates OE (Operation Excellence) methodologies to improve processes and decision making
• Reconciles conflicting and/or incomplete information to…