Specialist Production Planner

Career Category Operations Job Description 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. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline of medicines to treat cancer, heart disease, inflammatory conditions, rare diseases, and obesity and obesity-related conditions. 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. Specialist Production Planner What you will do Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will join the Supply Chain Production Planning Team, which is responsible for setting the pace of production in two Amgen biologic drug substance plants as well as managing raw material inventories to ensure supply.  The Amgen Rhode Island location consists of a mature, large scale production plant that produces 10 different biologic products, as well as a second plant that is currently in start-up and commissioning.  The primary responsibility of this role will be strategic supply planning and procurement of raw materials and management of supplier relationships.  More detail on responsibilities and opportunities for this are as follows: This position will: Procure raw materials using required systems and manage and optimize inventory levels, lead times, safety stock to ensure no stockouts Develop raw material inventory plans, including managing material transition analysis and execution. Lead, create, and problem solve as to ensure raw material supply and successful startup of the new ARI plant. Develop and manage strong supplier and customer relationships, establish performance metrics, and hold supplies accountable for performance and improvement objectives. Partner with Amgen’s Supplier Relationship Excellence team to monitor and enhance performance and quality from supplier base. Create, analyze and monitor data and reports to identify issues and opportunities to improve 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 presenting the board to management. Lead teams to resolve issues and/or improve business processes. Release forecast and orders to suppliers, analyzing, consolidating, and reporting supply and demand to the various stake holders in the company. Monitor, assess and revise targeted inventory levels in conjunction with changes in demand/supply variability. Coordinate expedition of material release to prevent/alleviate inventory shortages and material scrap exposure. Maintain purchasing’s record database (SAP System) integrity and maintain purchasing documentation to cGMP standards. Ownership of Non-Conformances, CAPA’s, and/or Change Controls. 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 presenting the board to management. Interact with Manufacturing, Process Development and Engineering to develop specifications for new equipment and materials. Resolve discrepancies that arise from purchase orders, impacting areas such as