Strategic Sourcing Senior Manager - Country Business Partner

Amgen; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading biotechnology company is seeking a Strategic Sourcing Senior Manager in Cambridge, UK. This role involves driving Category Strategies and managing supplier partnerships to ensure compliance and value across the business. Ideal candidates should have strong sourcing experience in a global environment, effective communication skills, and the ability to lead cross-functional initiatives. Opportunities for personal and professional growth are provided, alongside a generous rewards plan.

Benefits

Generous Total Rewards Plan

Opportunities for learning and growth

Diverse and inclusive community

Qualifications

• Experience in a global and profit-driven environment.
• Demonstrated experience driving supplier-enabled innovation.
• Preference for Biotech or Pharma experience.

Responsibilities

• Drive Category Strategies and Source-to-Contract solutions.
• Act as a trusted advisor to business and leadership teams.
• Lead sourcing strategies and supplier partnerships.
• Ensure compliant access to goods and services.
• Champion supplier relationship management.

Skills

Sourcing and procurement experience

Change management skills

Analytical mindset

Excellent communication skills

Education

Degree educated

Job description

HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?

If you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. 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. We are global collaborators who achieve together—researching, manufacturing and delivering ever-better products that reach over 10 million patients worldwide. It’s time for a career you can be proud of. Join us.

STRATEGIC SOURCING SENIOR MANAGER - COUNTRY BUSINESS PARTNER

LIVE

What you will do

In this vital role, you will drive Category Strategies and Source-to-Contract solutions to deliver quality, cost savings, and supply continuity while meeting P&L objectives across the United Kingdom and Ireland. You will lead strategic partnerships, enable enterprise-wide initiatives, and position Global Procurement as a key value driver through collaboration, innovation, and change leadership.

You will report directly to the Director for Global Strategic Sourcing in the ELMAC region (Europe, Latin America, Middle East & Africa, Canada).

The responsibilities of the role will include:

• Act as a trusted advisor to business and leadership teams, shaping and influencing the sourcing agenda.
• Drive a three-year savings and value pipeline aligned with category strategies and financial targets.
• Lead sourcing strategies, RfX processes, and supplier partnerships in collaboration with Amgen Capability Center Portugal (ACCP) sourcing team, category leads and other stakeholders.
• Oversee third‑party spend and ensure compliant access to goods and services.
• Partner with Finance and cross‑functional teams to capture, track, and realize value.
• Leverage market intelligence and supplier innovation to support business objectives.
• Champion supplier relationship management and continuous improvement for critical supplier.
• Ensure alignment and execution of procurement initiatives that connect category strategies with business needs.
• Drive implementation of category initiatives to align procurement performance with business objectives.

WIN

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. What we seek in you as an experienced professional, are these qualifications and skills:

• Degree educated
• Sourcing and procurement experience in a global and profit driven environment across indirect spend categories.
• Proven ability to partner with senior leaders as a trusted advisor.
• Experience leading cross‑functional initiatives and making strategic category decisions and representing major vertical categories at top‑level decision‑making forums.
• Strong change management skills to drive adoption of complex procurement strategies.
• Ability to translate business priorities into actionable category strategies.
• Analytical, value‑focused mindset with experience managing savings and value pipelines.
• Demonstrated experience driving supplier‑enabled innovation.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Biotech or Pharma experience preferred

THRIVE

What you can expect of us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, so we work to care for our teammates’ professional and personal growth and well‑being.

• Vast opportunities to learn and move up and across our global organization
• 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

LOCATION:

Ability to work flexibly from home with regular office work either from our Cambridge or Uxbridge next generation workspace.

APPLY NOW

for a career that defies imagination

In our quest to serve patients above all else, Amgen is the first to imagine, and the last to doubt. Join us.

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Equal Opportunity Statement

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 a 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 an accommodation.