Supply Chain Manager, Production Planner

About the position 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.

Responsibilities

• Interface with Global Supply Chain Planning on one or more drug substance/product planning networks.
• Conduct scenario analyses to evaluate implications of changes to the production plan.
• Represent Supply Chain on site project teams/new product introduction (NPI) project teams.
• Develop and implement production planning tools, solutions, and methodologies to ensure successful execution of the supply plan, management of inventory, and scrap per corporate and site targets.
• Create and maintain accurate information on the Bill of Materials (BOM).
• Prepare and communicate regular updates to key partners including senior management.
• Support the Supply Chain business process by finding opportunities and providing key potential solutions that will provide automation, analytics, and insights to support strategic decision making.
• Thoroughly understand the various manufacturing process requirements to translate the production plan into a concrete supply plan within SAP or other ERP systems.
• Lead and partner to resolve planning conflicts impacting ANC operations on a day-to-day basis.
• Continuously drive improvement in the Supply Chain process by defining strategies and translating them into actionable objectives.
• Generate, review, and update existing procedures (SOPs/policies), own Trackwise records (Change Control, CAPA).
• Develop and maintain key metrics to show health of the Planning organization.

Requirements

• High school diploma / GED and 10 years of supply chain or manufacturing experience within a cGMP regulated industry experience OR Associate's degree and 8 years of supply chain or manufacturing experience within a cGMP regulated industry OR Bachelor's degree and 4 years of supply chain or manufacturing experience within a cGMP regulated industry OR Master's degree and 2 years of supply chain or manufacturing experience within a cGMP regulated industry experience OR Doctorate degree.

Nice-to-haves

• MBA or other Supply Chain, Science or Engineering Master's degrees.
• 2+ years of experience with widely used planning and analytics applications such as SAP and Rapid Response.
• Demonstrated understanding of life sciences industry, and drug development and commercialization.
• Understanding of end-to-end supply chain business processes.
• Quick process understanding, insight, and visualizing.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Self-starter with high attention to detail, able to work on assigned tasks independently, able to identify and initiate discussions about opportunities for process improvement.
• Ability to thoughtfully and optimally influence and negotiate to resolve issues and gain consensus.
• Strong continuous improvement approach and lean practice experience.
• Good knowledge of Word, Excel, Smartsheet, Miro, and ability to work easily with new software.

Benefits

• A 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.
• Flexible work models, including remote and hybrid work arrangements, where possible.

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