Global Category Lead, Full-Service CRO - Associate Director, Global Procurement R&D

Career Category

Finance

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. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline and portfolio of medicines to treat heart disease, obesity and obesity-related conditions, rare diseases, inflammatory conditions and cancer. 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.

Global Category Lead, Full-Service CRO - Associate Director, Global Procurement R&D

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. We are seeking an individual who thrives in ambiguity, capable of driving category management initiatives with strategic vision and precision.

You will serve as the Global Category Manager and lead the global category strategy for Full-Service CRO. This includes developing multi-year category strategies that address business needs while achieving best practice outcomes, building enterprise-wide business partnerships, and activating Procurement resources to drive strategic sourcing results to reduce costs and enable top-line performance.

Your responsibilities will include analyzing internal demand (using Business Partner Management processes), external market data, spend & specifications to produce category plans aligned with Business objectives and cost reduction / sourcing initiates. As a Category Manager, you will play a pivotal role in managing the innovation agenda of Procurement. This role will drive supplier performance, manage risk, and deliver sustained value across a complex global professional services landscape.

Responsibilities:

• Lead category management for Full-Service CRO, supporting all phases of fully outsourced clinical trials, including ClinPharm, Ph I-IV, Observational Research, and inherited studies resulting from M&A activity.
• Partner with R&D, Clinical, Regulatory, and Compliance teams to ensure alignment with FDA, EMA, HIPAA, and GCP standards.
• Negotiate contracts, amendments, and competitive commercial terms, rates, and discounts with vendors supporting fully outsourced clinical trials, balancing innovation with compliance & risk, while positioning Amgen and stakeholders for success.
• Partner with Program Leads, Study Teams, and R&D Supplier Governance to enable supplier governance frameworks, drive high-quality delivery and performance, and ensure effective & timely issue resolution.
• Monitor market trends & intelligence, including the evolving digital health regulations, and integrate compliance, quality, and risk mitigation into sourcing strategies.

• Provide strategic oversight as the lead for the Full-Service CRO category and sourcing, ensuring alignment between category strategies and Amgen’s evolving business needs. Act as a trusted advisor to ensure that procurement initiatives are aligned with broader organizational objectives.
• Guide and facilitate collaboration across cross-functional teams and regional stakeholders, ensuring that procurement strategies meet the diverse needs of the organization and are implemented effectively.
• Ensure that all procurement activities in support of Full-Service CRO are managed in compliance with regulatory, contractual, and operational risk requirements. Partner with Legal, Compliance, Data Privacy, and Cybersecurity teams to maintain oversight of risk mitigation strategies and ensure alignment with best practices.
• Collaborate with Global Procurement colleagues and relevant stakeholders to oversee the strategic approach to complex negotiations for CRO MSAs, Amendments, including support as necessary for Study-Level Agreements & Purchase Orders, providing guidance and ensuring appropriate processes and frameworks are in place for RFPs, supplier evaluations, and contract development.
• Maturity to activate procurement resources and facilitate delegation of sourcing activities to drive category priorities while managing expectations with stakeholders and mitigating risk on behalf of Amgen.

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The strategic procurement leader we seek is a collaborative and influential business partner with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree and 3 years of Global Strategic Sourcing, Procurement experience

OR

Master’s degree and 5 years of Global Strategic Sourcing, Procurement experience

OR

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