Strategic Sourcing Manager – Marketing, Advertising & Medical Communications

Career Category Procurement Job Description ABOUT AMGEN Amgen harnesses the best of biology and technology to fight the world’s toughest diseases, and make people’s lives easier, fuller and longer. We discover, develop, manufacture and deliver innovative medicines to help millions of patients. Amgen helped establish the biotechnology industry more than 40 years ago and remains on the cutting-edge of innovation, using technology and human genetic data to push beyond what’s known today.

Role Description  Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. 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  products that reach over 10 million patients worldwide.   In this vital role, you will be responsible for managing the category strategy for Marketing Services, with a focus on Advertising and Medical Communications . As Strategic Sourcing Manager, Marketing Advertising and Medical Communication. You will play a key role in developing and executing sourcing strategies that align with commercial, medical, and enterprise objectives. This includes leading sourcing initiatives, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and enabling third-party solutions that accelerate high-quality commercial advertising, medical communications, and compliant omnichannel engagement. In this role, you will: Build and manage strategic partnerships across Global Marketing, Global Medical, Medical Affairs, Commercial, Legal, Regulatory, and Procurement teams. Deliver value through cost optimization, supplier innovation, improved speed-to-market, and scalable content production capabilities. Lead sourcing events, supplier negotiations, and contract development for commercial advertising, medical communications, medical education, promotional and non-promotional content, and content operations. Partner with stakeholders to optimize the end-to-end innovative content development, including modular content, digital asset management, AI-enabled content creation, and content reuse strategies. Help ensure supplier compliance with quality, regulatory, legal, privacy, and medical governance requirements while driving operational excellence and continuous improvement. Your work will help strengthen Amgen's content ecosystem by enabling compliant, high-quality, and efficient primary (core) content development and medical communications that improve customer engagement, accelerate speed-to-market, and support the company's mission and future product growth.

Support the development of the continuously evolving category strategy for Creative (Core) Advertising and Medical Communications, ensuring alignment with commercial, medical, and enterprise priorities. Lead strategic sourcing initiatives with a focus on creative and medical agencies along with related eco-system services. Deliver measurable business value through cost optimization, supplier innovation, operational excellence, and enhanced creative development across the category. Optimize total cost of ownership by improving agency service models, driving efficiency across the category while maximizing supplier performance and value. Monitor and improve supplier performance through structured supplier relationship management, governance, service level agreements, and performance metrics. Proactively identify and mitigate risks related to regulatory compliance, quality, and supplier continuity. Leverage data and analytics to measure category performance and key performance indicators, including speed-to-market, innovative core content development, supplier performance, and overall value realization. Partner cross-functionally across Global Marketing, Global Medical, Medical Affairs, Legal, Regulatory, Commercial, and regional teams to ensure sourcing strategies support enterprise