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Senior Associate - Global Buying Transformation

Employer
Amgen
Location
Thousand Oaks, CA
Start date
Jun 16, 2022

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HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?

Youve earned your degree. How will you use that achievement to reach your goals? Do more with the knowledge youve worked hard to acquire and the passion you already have. At Amgen, our shared missionto serve patientsdrives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the worlds leading biotechnology companies, reaching over 10 million patients worldwide. Become the professional you are meant to be in this meaningful role.

Senior Associate - Global Buying Transformation

Live

What you will do

Lets do this! Lets change the world! In this vital role you will support our ambition to transform finance capabilities. This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of the next generation of financial planning capability built for the company. The primary objective of this role is to support the Director of Global Buying Transformation to enable continuous accounting close by leveraging process simplification, redesign, and automation best practices.

The location of this role is flexible but is likely to require frequent interactions with the teams based in California and Florida.

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:

  • Support, develop, and deploy targeted procurement-related solutions to address real-time struggles, including procurement standardization
  • Partner closely with business partners to get results quickly
  • Monitor business performance to ensure compliance with procurement standards
  • Support backlog development of opportunities to standardize, simplify, and automate the Global Buying process
  • Ensure all proposed changes are in compliance with relevant controls

Win

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The passionate professional we seek is curious by nature, organizationally and data-savvy, with a strong record of partner management and accomplishments in Finance, Accounting, and Procurement. You will also possess the following qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:

  • Master's Degree in a related field, OR
  • Bachelor's Degree and 2+ years of experience in procurement/buying, OR
  • Associate's Degee and 6+ years of experience in procurement/buying, OR
  • High School/GED and 8+ years of experience in procurement/buying

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Working knowledge and experience with Procure-to-Pay activities
  • Strong interpersonal skills including comfortable working with business partners at various levels
  • Strong attention to detail
  • Ability to work in an agile and fast-paced environment
  • Comfortable with ambiguity; flexible, innovative, and creative approach

Thrive

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 maximize 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 Plancomprising health, finance and wealth, work/life balance, and career benefitswith compensation and benefits rated above 4 stars (out of 5) on Glassdoor

Apply now for a career that defies imagination

Objects in your future are closer than they appear. Join us.

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Join Us

If you're seeking a career where you can truly make a difference in the lives of others, a career where you can work at the absolute forefront of biotechnology with the top minds in the field, you'll find it at Amgen.

Amgen, a biotechnology pioneer, discovers, develops and delivers innovative human therapeutics. Our medicines have helped millions of patients in the fight against cancer, kidney disease, rheumatoid arthritis and other serious illnesses.

As an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people around the world, Amgen fosters an inclusive environment of diverse, ethical, committed and highly accomplished people who respect each other but compete intensely to win. Together, we live the Amgen values as we continue advancing science to serve patients.

Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to 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.

Amgen requires all staff in the United States, Puerto Rico and Canada to be vaccinated from COVID 19 as a condition of employment. In accordance with applicable law, Amgen will provide reasonable accommodations to staff members who qualify on the basis of a medical reason or a sincerely held religious belief, practice, or observance. Such accommodation may not pose an undue hardship to Amgen, its operations, or its staff.

Company

We are all different, yet we have this in common: our mission to serve patients. This sense of shared purpose is key to our becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies. It guides us as we continue to launch new medicines and reach millions of patients worldwide.

We live the mission.

We win together.

We thrive on continual challenge.

Our team of 22,000+ scientists and professionals worldwide bring distinct perspectives and experiences to all we do. We leverage our global talent to achieve together—to research, manufacture and deliver ever-better products and greater depth to our mission.

At Amgen, there is a strong correlation between our high level of diversity and performance. Because addressing issues with a wider range of perspectives and approaches leads to more creative problem-solving. Together, we’re transforming the promise of science and biotechnology into therapies that have the power to restore health.

Connect with us to explore how you can Win, Live, and Thrive at Amgen.

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Phone
805-447-1000
Location
Corporate Headquarters
One Amgen Center Drive
Thousand Oaks
California
91320-1799
United States

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