Career Category

Strategy and Innovation

Job Description

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.

Strategic Sourcing Manager

Live

What you will do

As a leader within the Global Strategic Sourcing (GSS) team, the Strategic Sourcing Manager is reporting to the GSS Regional Lead and is responsible for developing and handling the overall sourcing and supplier management processes for the Brazilian Affiliate. You will also partner with business process from Brazil to source goods and/or services aligned with Amgen’s sourcing policies and processes in order to deliver business requirements at fair market value total cost and minimize risk exposure. On the other hand, you will also have more responsibilities that includes the following:

Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Lead engagement with business partners in the Brazilian Affiliate related to Sourcing agenda & deliverables, within remit.

• Influence and develop broad productivity / saving programs and initiatives aligned with Regional and Global Category Plans

• Lead and drive across-functional sourcing strategies and develop a multi-year productivity / saving agenda to add new value and meet business goals for the country.

• Support Chief Finance Officer as part of Amgen’s productivity system in coordination with Finance and partners.

• Interaction with the General Manager, Business Unit´s and Directors – high exposure to the Staff members.

• Ensure early involvement & demand planning of sourcing projects.

• Participate in Regional Sourcing teams and Global category strategy development.

• Ensure effective management of sourcing strategy development, selection and contracting processes, supply base control and performance and the sourcing process.

• Monitoring, analyzing, and reporting local actual spend, trends, savings, forecasts, and supplier base data on the basis of pre-determined, relevant and measurable important metrics.

• Define and document sourcing priorities, sourcing strategies and associated plans and cooperate with partners, combining outcome of analysis and sourcing initiatives.

• Identify and define specific partner requirements.

• Define evaluation/selection criteria, lead Request for Information/Proposal for Sourcing strategies above the threshold based on the Sourcing strategy.

• Supplier evaluation & performance improvement: evaluate & establish target supplier performance.

• Continue to use Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) programs to reduce enterprise risk and to gain access to external innovations.

• Ensure compliance with Sourcing Policies requirements (Local and Global).

• Benefits tracking: develop, implement, maintain, and report Key Performance Indicators that clearly reflect the achievement of objectives in each business area.

Win

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our outstanding contributions to serve patients. The committed professional we seek is a detail oriented individual with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree

• OR

• Master’s degree and 2 years of Strategic Sourcing experience

• OR

• OR Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of Sourcing experience

• Sourcing / procurement experience within and external to the Pharma Industry

• Sourcing knowledge: sourcing process, commodity management and analysis, supplier management and development, pricing theory and policy, negotiation, supply chain, make or buy.

• Experience with sophisticated Request for Proposal (RFP/RFI/RFx) processes, supplier negotiations and contracting.

• Experience in addressing leadership team.

• Proficiency in English and Portuguese, both in oral and written communication.

• Experience in any of the following indirect categories: Patient Support Program, Fleet, Market research and Data, Meeting Agencies, Marketing Agencies, Medical communications agencies, Travel, Printing and Fulfillment, Logistics/Warehousing Services, Professional/Consulting Services, Facilities/Real Estate.

• Strong Negotiation Skills.

• Experience with ERP systems (MyBuy, SCOUT, SirionLab).

• Strong literacy on computer systems. (ex: Windows OS, MS Office environment, etc.) with an intermediate level of Excel skills as minimum (ex: Pivot Tables).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Known to work in partnering cross-functionally and across different countries, cultures, and time zones.

• Min 3 years Business experience in a Pharmaceutical or similar environment

• Project Management experience (team or direct)

• Strong understanding in procurement solutions

• Experience of over 3 years in leadership positions.

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.

In addition to the base salary, 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

• 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 an annual site shutdown

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

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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.

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