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At Amgen, our shared mission-to serve patients-drives everything we do. As one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies, we work together across research, manufacturing and supply to deliver ever-better medicines to more than 10 million patients worldwide.\nIt’s time for a career you can be proud of. Join us as:\nSupply Chain Manager- Components & Device Planner\nThe Component Manager owns the end-to-end component management business for the assigned portfolio. The role sets direction, orchestrates and priorities to ensure a reliable, compliant, and cost-effective supply of components that supports production, product launches, variations, and business plans. The role is accountable for portfolio performance and leads decisions across suppliers and internal partners. The operational teams execute routine planning and purchasing activities; the Component Manager provides long term purchasing plans for components and devices, sets business direction, orchestrates the work, manages escalations, and drives sustainable outcomes.\nLive\nWhat will you do\nOwn the component supply strategy ( order-to-cash) and business performance for the assigned portfolio, balancing service, quality, inventory, cost, and resilience.\nEnsure component availability supports production schedules, product introductions, variations, new lines, and long term priorities\nManage the device planning for ABR site in close collaboration with the global network.\nOrchestrate global stakeholders, component planners, planning departments, suppliers, warehousing, and External Supply stakeholders toward aligned plans, clear decisions, and accountable execution.\nAnticipate supply and lifecycle risks and drive timely mitigation, recovery, and contingency planning.\nSponsors and lead CI 2.0 improvements that strengthen the end-to-end component management process and deliver sustained business value.\nKnowledge and expertise\nApplies broad supply chain and component management expertise to business decisions and complex supply situations.\nUnderstands supplier markets, procurement, planning, inventory, manufacturing, quality, and applicable regulated-industry requirements, and connects these disciplines to business outcomes.\nUses relevant data, systems, and reporting to identify trends, forecast and inventory risks, evaluate trade-offs, and guide decisions.\nBuilds knowledge of global and External Supply networks, product lifecycle needs, and long term planning requirements.\nProblem solving and judgment\nResolves complex, ambiguous, and interconnected problems with significant impact across functions, suppliers, or business commitments.\nDevelops and evaluates options using data, risk, cost, service, quality, and customer impact; recommends a clear course of action.\nIdentifies systemic causes behind recurring performance issues and ensures corrective actions prevent recurrence.\nAnticipates emerging constraints and develops scenarios and contingency plans before issues affect supply.\nReports out metrics and leads and manage countermeasures against performance risks.\nAutonomy and accountability\nWorks with broad autonomy within established business, quality, and regulatory frameworks; sets priorities for the assigned component portfolio.\nMakes decisions within delegated authority and shapes cross-functional decisions where outcomes affect multiple teams or sites.\nOwns delivery against agreed portfolio objectives and ensures actions have accountable owners, milestones, and follow-up.\nEscalates decisions when impact, risk, or authority requires leadership input, bringing a clear assessment and recommendation.\nContribution and leadership\nSets direction for the component management business and contributes to site, regional, and global supply chain priorities.\nLeads cross-functional initiatives and influences stakeholders without relying solely on formal authority.\nCoaches colleagues and builds capability, ownership, and consistent decision-making across the component management team.\nPromotes and leads continuous improvement initiatives, compliance, and a proactive approach to risk and performance.\nPosition specific responsibilities\nBusiness ownership and performance\nOwn the Component & Device supply strategy, portfolio objectives, priorities, and performance framework.\nMonitor availability, supplier delivery, schedule stability, inventory health, scrap, obsolescence, and cost; translate results into business decisions and improvement actions.\nLead performance reviews and root-cause discussions for significant or recurring gaps; ensure recovery actions are effective and sustained.\nProvide clear updates to stakeholders and leadership on performance, decisions, risks, and recovery plans.\nSupplier and supply risk management.\nAlign supplier capacity, continuity, responsiveness, and commitments with business requirements.\nLead mitigation and recovery decisions for capacity constraints, delivery disruptions, quality issues, and demand changes with impact to our supply plans\nMaintain forward-looking risk assessments and contingency options for critical components; escalate material risks with recommended actions.\nGlobal and External Supply stakeholder leadership\nAlign component management plans with global supply chain priorities, site requirements, and regional or global strategies.\nRepresent the portfolio in global and cross-site forums, communicating performance, supply risks, capacity needs, and decisions required.\nPartner with External Supply & Global Supply chain to align component and device availability with external manufacturing plans, demand, inventory targets, and production schedules.\nClarify accountabilities and ways of working across site, global, and External Supply teams; resolve competing priorities through impact-based decisions.\nEnsure forecast changes, capacity constraints, product changes, and launch plans from global and External Supply partners are reflected in component strategies.\nDevice & components Planning in Rapid Response/ SAP\nLead component and device planning for the assigned portfolio within Rapid Response & SAP, aligning plans with priorities & Strategies, demand assumptions, and supply constraints.\nCoordinate with global planning, External Supply, suppliers, manufacturing, quality, and other partners to establish a current view of device and component availability.\nAssess the impact of changing demand, disruptions, capacity limitations, and recovery actions on device readiness and business commitments.\nDevelop planning scenarios, identify gaps and dependencies, and recommend actions to protect supply and response timelines.\nEnsure actions have clear owners, decision points, escalation paths, and follow-up; communicate readiness, risks, constraints, and recovery plans.\nCapture lessons learned and incorporate them into planning assumptions, governance, and response readiness.\nInventory, cost, and lifecycle management\nOwn the portfolio inventory and obsolescence agenda, balancing availability, working capital, shelf life, and supply risk.\nDirect actions for excess, obsolete, expiring, and at-risk inventory and secure timely decisions with stakeholders.\nIdentify and deliver opportunities to reduce avoidable costs, including scrap, expedite costs, inefficient order patterns, and unnecessary inventory.\nSponsor improvements to planning parameters, master data governance, and inventory policies where these affect business performance.\nLaunches, changes, and continuous improvement\nProvide component management leadership for launches, variations, lifecycle changes, and business-critical initiatives.\nIntegrate supplier readiness, supply plans, inventory decisions, and component availability into project milestones.\nIdentify dependencies and risks early, assign accountable owners, and drive decisions needed to protect milestones.\nSponsor cross-functional improvements that strengthen reliability, cost, quality, data, governance, and process effectiveness; ensure lessons learned are embedded.\nQuality and compliance\nEnsure component management decisions and activities comply with applicable quality systems, procedures, and regulatory requirements.\nPartner with Quality, Regulatory, and other control functions to assess risks and resolve issues while protecting product and patient requirements.\nWin\nWhat we expect of you\nBachelor or master degree or equivalent experience in Supply Chain, Logistics, Business, Engineering, or a related field.\nSignificant experience in supply chain, procurement, material management, or a related business area, including responsibility for complex portfolios or supplier relationships.\nDemonstrated experience leading cross-functional work and influencing stakeholders in a matrix organization.\nStrong analytical, decision-making, communication, and stakeholder management skills.\nExperience with ERP systems and reporting tools; proficiency with standard business applications.\nPreferred requirements\nExperience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or another regulated environment; knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practices and quality systems.\nExperience with External Supply, global planning, supplier strategy, supply risk management, inventory optimization, or Rapid Response.\nExperience leading launches, supply recovery, portfolio improvement, or other complex business initiatives.\nFluent Dutch and English, written and spoken, where required for the assigned site and stakeholder scope.\nSkills and competencies\nBusiness ownership and accountability\nStrategic and systems thinking\nSupply chain and commercial judgment\nSupplier and performance management\nGlobal and cross-functional influence\nExternal Supply collaboration\nRisk anticipation and scenario planning\nAnalytical problem solving and data storytelling\nClear communication and leadership reporting\nChange leadership and continuous improvement\nDecision making under uncertainty\nCompliance-minded execution and quality focus\nCoaching, collaboration, and capability building\nStakeholders and relationships\nThe role works across the site, regional, and global supply chain network and maintains close partnerships with External Supply, Procurement, Suppliers, Manufacturing / Production, Planning, Warehouse, Incoming Quality, Quality Assurance, Regulatory, Finance, Product and project teams, and site and business leadership. The role is expected to build alignment, clarify ownership, resolve cross-functional issues, and represent the component management business in relevant governance forums.\nThrive\nWhat you can expect of us\nAs we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we are equally committed to supporting the growth, well-being and success of our colleagues.\nAt Amgen, you can expect:\nVast opportunities to learn, develop and grow across our global organization.\nA diverse and inclusive community where colleagues are empowered to bring ideas forward and make an impact.\nA competitive Total Rewards package, including salary, bonus structure, fixed 13th month, holiday allowance and collective health insurance.\nA strong focus on vitality and well-being, with an on-site gym, vitality programs and a restaurant offering healthy food.\nFlexible working arrangements, combining collaboration in the office with the flexibility to work from home.\nThe opportunity to work in a global, future-focused environment where your contribution directly supports reliable supply and, ultimately, patients who depend on Amgen medicines.\n.","description_format":"text","description_chars":11571,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"Dutch","level":"Advanced (C1)","optional":true},{"language":"English","level":"Advanced (C1)","optional":false}]},"benefits":["Flexible schedule","Health insurance"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Netherlands","iso":"NL","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Supply Chain","Prescription Drugs","Immunology & Inflammation Therapeutics","Cardiometabolic Therapeutics"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-13T13:27:59Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":42,"reasons":["conf:1","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-14T04:07:35Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/amgen-supply-chain-manager-component-manager","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/amgen-supply-chain-manager-component-manager.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-14T04:07:35Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":6534,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-15T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":4775},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=4775"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Famgen-supply-chain-manager-component-manager"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"free","price":{"credits":0,"usd":0},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Famgen-supply-chain-manager-component-manager"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Famgen-supply-chain-manager-component-manager"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/amgen-supply-chain-manager-component-manager\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Famgen-supply-chain-manager-component-manager"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":4248819}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"amgen.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":4248819},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); 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