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HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?

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 Sourcing Excellence

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What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will:

Execute Global/Regional sourcing strategies

• Constantly align and agree on priorities with appropriate global and regional category managers (GCM/RCM)

• Support supplier analysis and market intelligence activities

• Manage Request for Proposal and Quotation processes (eRFX)

• Document and guide sourcing execution through to implementation

• Ensure sourcing tactics drive value in specific functional business environments, including legal & regulatory context

Deliver Value for Customers

• Understand business goals and interpret customer needs to identify potential opportunities

• Partner with colleagues in Finance and the business as appropriate

• Support / manage delivery and validation of savings

Manage Contracts

• Ensure Amgen’s sourcing policies are followed, compliance metrics are met or exceeded and supported by preferred supplier contracts

• Advise stakeholders on Amgen’s sourcing policies and procedures, providing support and corrective actions where required

• Review and approve purchase requisitions or escalate any non-compliant requisitions to the appropriate GCM/RCM

• Lead contracting with new suppliers

• Provide ongoing contract management (incl. renewal and renegotiation of existing and expiring contracts)

Win

What we expect of you

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

Basic Qualifications:

Master’s degree

OR

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

Or

Associate’s degree and 6 years of Sourcing, Management Consulting, Project Management and/or IT / IS program management experience

Or

High school diploma / GED and 8 years of Sourcing, Management Consulting, Project Management and/or IT / IS program management experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Combination of: Management Consulting, Sourcing, Project Management and/or IT/IS program management experience

• Broad knowledge of the market forces shaping a customer’s business context (e.g. supplier base, legal & regulatory environment, sources of competitive advantage)

• Demonstrated experience in identifying and utilizing full set of sourcing levers to drive value for customers

• Ability to conduct benchmarking to address cost, quality, risk and innovation considerations

• Knowledge of sourcing, contract negotiations, and supplier management

• Reasonable understanding of best in breed eProcurement solutions

• Ability to analyze, summarize, and present insights based on the needs of the audience

• Independent self-starter with an interest in or working on complex Corporate Function projects or business programs

• Ability to lead teams in a matrix organization, across geographic and functional reporting lines

• Demonstrated track record of identifying root causes to issues and proactively problem solving

• Change management experience with large and sophisticated organizational transformations

• Demonstrated success in partnering cross-functionally

• Ability to own and strengthen relationships with key users

• Compelling and persuasive communicator (oral and written) with excellent interpersonal skills

Thrive

Some of the vast rewards of working here

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.

• Full support and career-development resources to expand your skills, enhance your expertise, and maximize your potential along your career journey

• A diverse and inclusive community of belonging, where teammates are empowered to bring ideas to the table and act

• Generous Total Rewards Plan—comprising health, finance and wealth, work/life balance, and career benefits—with compensation and benefits rated above 4 stars (out of 5) on Glassdoor

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If you're seeking a career where you can truly make a difference in the lives of others, a career where you can work at the absolute forefront of biotechnology with the top minds in the field, you'll find it at Amgen.

Amgen, a biotechnology pioneer, discovers, develops and delivers innovative human therapeutics. Our medicines have helped millions of patients in the fight against cancer, kidney disease, rheumatoid arthritis and other serious illnesses.

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