Associate Director Supply Chain (Site Planning)

Career Category

Supply Chain

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.

Associate Director Supply Chain (Site Planning)

At Amgen Breda, medicines are labeled, assembled, stored, and eventually shipped to various countries worldwide. Every day more than 1000 people from 38 different nationalities are working on supply chain processes, manufacturing, marketing, and sales of our medicines and clinical research into new medicines.

What you will do

As Associate Director Supply Chain, you will be a key member of the Amgen Breda Site Supply Chain Leadership Team. In this role, you will lead a high-performing planning organization that ensures agile, efficient, and reliable product supply across the world.

This position combines strategic influence with operational leadership. You’ll manage a team of 15 employees, including a more operational focused manager, detailed schedulers, product planners and component buyers, while also shaping End-to-End strategic projects that fuel growth, enhance efficiency, and introduce innovation. By harnessing advanced digital tools and AI, you will help design the supply chain of the future.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• •Lead and develop teams : Inspire and manage supply planning sub-teams, fostering talent growth and high performance.
• •Deliver world-class results: Ensure supply excellence (Class A standards), meeting KPIs and optimizing inventory.
• •Drive transformation: Oversee strategic projects and initiatives that strengthen performance, cost, and agility.
• •Partner with Manufacturing: Deliver robust production plans, track execution, and foster continuous improvement.
• •Own governance: Lead the Supply Review process, capacity management, and proactive constraint resolution.
• •Enable growth : Support NPIs, business cases, and site decisions with robust supply planning insights.
• •Collaborate globally: Align with Regional Supply Chain teams to balance efficiency and flexibility.
• •Safeguard continuity : Anticipate risks and lead cross-functional mitigation strategies.
• •Shape the future: Contribute to global initiatives and co-create next-generation supply chain solutions.

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The experienced professional we seek is a leader with these qualifications.

• •Proven success managing diverse, high-performing teams and attracting top talent.
• •Expertise in supply chain planning across multiple horizons (short to long term).
• •Ability to drive process improvements and leverage AI/digital tools for measurable results.
• •Strong collaboration skills across Quality, Manufacturing, Finance, IS, and Supply Chain.
• •Executive presence with strong communication, influencing, and presentation skills.
• •Confidence in engaging in senior leadership with clear insights and recommendations.

What you can expect of us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for your professional and personal growth and well-being. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we’ll support your journey every step of the way.

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards Plans that are aligned with local industry standards.

Apply now and make a lasting impact with the Amgen team.

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As an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people around the world, Amgen fosters an inclusive environment of ethical, committed and highly accomplished people who respect each other and live the Amgen values to continue advancing science to serve patients. Together, we compete in the fight against serious disease.

Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer. We make all employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

We provide reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities, consistent with legal requirements. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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