Strategic Sourcing Senior Manager

Kroes Communications; Uxbridge; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading biotechnology company is seeking a Strategic Sourcing Senior Manager to drive category strategies and manage supplier partnerships across the UK and Ireland. This role requires significant sourcing experience in a global environment, with the ability to influence senior leadership. You will oversee procurement initiatives, promote supplier relationship management and work alongside financial departments to ensure compliance and savings. This position allows for flexible working arrangements from home and locations in Cambridge or Uxbridge.

Benefits

Opportunities for personal and professional growth

Inclusive community environment

Generous Total Rewards Plan

Qualifications

• Degree educated.
• Experience in a global, profit-driven sourcing environment.
• Strong ability to influence sourcing agendas.

Responsibilities

• Drive Category Strategies and Source-to-Contract solutions.
• Lead sourcing strategies and supplier partnerships.
• Partner with Finance to track and realize value.

Skills

Sourcing and procurement experience

Trusted advisor to senior leaders

Cross-functional initiative leadership

Change management skills

Analytical mindset

Excellent communication skills

Education

Degree

Job description

About Amgen

If you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. At Amgen our shared mission to serve patients drives all that we do. It is key to becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies. We are global collaborators who achieve together by researching, manufacturing and delivering ever‑better products that reach over 10 million patients worldwide. It’s time for a career you can be proud of. Join us.

Strategic Sourcing Senior Manager – Country Business Partner

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What You Will Do

In this vital role, you will drive Category Strategies and Source‑to‑Contract solutions to deliver quality, cost savings, and supply continuity while meeting P&L objectives across the United Kingdom and Ireland. You will lead strategic partnerships, enable enterprise‑wide initiatives, and position Global Procurement as a key value driver through collaboration, innovation, and change leadership.

You will report directly to the Director for Global Strategic Sourcing in the ELMAC region (Europe, Latin America, Middle East & Africa, Canada).

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted advisor to business and leadership teams, shaping and influencing the sourcing agenda.
• Drive a three‑year savings and value pipeline aligned with category strategies and financial targets.
• Lead sourcing strategies, RfX processes, and supplier partnerships in collaboration with Amgen Capability Center Portugal (ACCP) sourcing team, category leads and other stakeholders.
• Oversee third‑party spend and ensure compliant access to goods and services.
• Partner with Finance and cross‑functional teams to capture, track, and realize value.
• Leverage market intelligence and supplier innovation to support business objectives.
• Champion supplier relationship management and continuous improvement for critical supplier.
• Ensure alignment and execution of procurement initiatives that connect category strategies with business needs.
• Drive implementation of category initiatives to align procurement performance with business objectives.

Qualifications

• Degree educated
• Sourcing and procurement experience in a global and profit‑driven environment across indirect spend categories.
• Proven ability to partner with senior leaders as a trusted advisor.
• Experience leading cross‑functional initiatives and making strategic category decisions and representing major vertical categories at top‑level decision‑making forums.
• Strong change management skills to drive adoption of complex procurement strategies.
• Ability to translate business priorities into actionable category strategies.
• Analytical, value‑focused mindset with experience managing savings and value pipelines.
• Demonstrated experience driving supplier‑enabled innovation.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Biotech or Pharma experience preferred

Benefits

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also care for our teammates’ professional and personal growth and well‑being.

• Vast opportunities to learn and move up and across our global organization
• Diverse and inclusive community of belonging, where teammates are empowered to bring ideas to the table and act
• Generous Total Rewards Plan comprising health, finance and wealth, work/life balance, and career benefits

Location

Ability to work flexibly from home with regular office work either from our Cambridge or Uxbridge next‑generation workspace.

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For a career that defies imagination: In our quest to serve patients above all else, Amgen is the first to imagine, and the last to doubt. Join us.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider you without regard to your 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 a 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 an accommodation.