Sr. Associate Procurement

Amgen; West Greenwich (RI); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development resources

Diverse and inclusive workplace

Generous Total Rewards Plan

Job summary

A leading biotechnology company is seeking a Senior Associate Procurement to join their Rhode Island team. The role involves managing supply planning, procurement, and raw material inventory for biologic drug production. Candidates should have a Bachelor’s degree with related experience and strong knowledge of supply chain systems like SAP. This position demands excellent communication skills and a partnership-oriented approach to enhance business performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 2 years of supply chain experience.
• Strong skills in supply chain and inventory management.
• Ability to operate in cGMP environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead supply planning and procurement processes.
• Manage raw materials and supplier relationships.
• Analyze data for performance improvements.

Skills

Supply chain concepts

Inventory management

SAP systems

Strong communication

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree

High school diploma / GED

Tools

SAP

Excel

Job description

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 solve problems.
• Seeks out standard processes to implement within its own sphere of influence
• Works under general direction and can interpret generally defined practices and methods.
• Partners with Amgen’s Supplier Relationship Excellence team to supervise and enhance performance and quality from the supplier base.
• Facilitates team meetings to develop solutions.
• Encourages diversity and inclusion in teams.
• Develops and handles strong supplier and customer relationships establish performance metrics and holds suppliers accountable for performance and improvement objectives.
• Collaborates and establishes relationships across department and project teams.
• Ability to coordinate cross-site and cross-functional efforts in response to issues and opportunities.

Ability and interest to learn and support other areas of ARI Supply Chain depending on business need.

Qualifications

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What we expect of you

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

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 2 years of experience directly related to the job OR
• Associate degree and 6 years of experience directly related to the job OR
• High school diploma / GED and 8 years of experience directly related to the job

Preferred Qualifications

• Degree in math, science (including data science), or engineering
• Experience in the supply chain, engineering, manufacturing, or quality
• Experience with handling inventories of single-use production parts in the biotech or healthcare industry.
• High proficiency with computer systems (SAP, Rapid Response, Excel, or comparable)
• Strong social skills and strength in communication and issue resolution with customers and suppliers and multiple levels in the organization.
• Strong analytical, critical thinking, data science, and optimization skills
• Leadership skills – ability to coordinate cross-site and cross-functional efforts in response to issues and opportunities.
• Ability to influence and negotiate to resolve issues, gain consensus, and develop relationships tactfully and optimally
• Ability to learn new insights
• A self‑motivated standout colleague who is capable of growth and increased responsibility.
• Solid understanding of cGMP guidelines.
• Knowledge of raw material qualifications for the pharmaceutical industry

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 improve 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

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.