Senior Manager, Engineering - Environmental Sustainability

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Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas –Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease– we reach millions of patients each year. 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.

Senior Manager, Engineering - Environmental Sustainability

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will be responsible for leading the environmental sustainability (ES) strategic initiatives team, facilitating the embedding of sustainability throughout Amgen’s business and operations, and supporting Amgen clients advance environmental sustainability goals. The successful candidate will work out of our corporate campus in Thousand Oaks, CA or other Amgen locations including Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Puerto Rico, Ireland, and the Netherlands may be considered.

Key responsibilities include:

• Oversee and navigate emerging practices, including ES regulations response, climate risk, circular economy, biodiversity, etc.

• In partnership with multi-functional teams, manage Amgen’s ES responses to new Global regulations; for example, the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, the EU Taxonomy Regulation, California SB219, and other future promulgations.

• Working with global sites and functions, manage an enterprise-level climate scenario analysis, risk assessment and quantification program to ensure alignment with new regulations.

• Manage ES voluntary disclosures, including CDP reporting.

• Oversee Amgen’s response to customer requests for ES disclosures across global locations.

• Advance integration of Sustainability into Amgen’s business and advancing Amgen’s Sustainability Culture

• Facilitate Amgen’s ES Ambassador program, a cross-site and cross-function network of leaders responsible for integration of sustainability at their sites and within their functions.

• Manage the purchase of renewable electricity and high quality carbon offsets, including the execution of Power Purchase Agreements.

• Track biodiversity developments such as TNFD and SBTN and help prepare Amgen for alignment.

• Support short- and long-term ES budget tracking and productivity identification.

• Provide insights and progress reports to functions across Amgen, including executive leadership, and externally as needed.

• Participate in external forums and working groups, representing Amgen as the subject matter expert.

• Form partnerships with external thought leaders. Identify joint ventures as the opportunity presents.

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The Environmental Sustainability Engineering professional we seek is a collaborative team-player with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree and 2 years of corporate services, engineering, or science experience OR

• Master’s degree and 6 years of corporate services, engineering, or science experience OR

• Bachelor’s degree and 8 years of corporate services, engineering, or science experience OR

• Associate’s degree and 10 years of corporate services, engineering, or science experience OR

• High school diploma / GED and 12 years of corporate services, engineering, or science experience

In addition to meeting at least one of the above requirements, you must have a minimum of 2 years experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs, or directing the allocation or resources. Your managerial experience may run concurrently with the required technical experience referenced above

Preferred Qualifications:

• Passion and interest in environmental sustainability.

• Master’s degree in Engineering, Physical, or Life Sciences.

• 12 plus years of experience developing and supporting Sustainability programs or other technical programs.

• Demonstrated strategic thinking and strategy development/deployment experience.

• Experience managing teams as well as personnel performance.

• Technical depth and strong collaboration in a diverse culture.

• Risk analysis and financial quantification expertise, across different ES topics.

• Strong analytical / quantitative skills with an ability to pragmatically apply engineering / scientific first principles.

• Knowledge of engineering principles to resolve attainable usage reductions / savings for conservation measures.

• Experience or capacity to quickly understand industrial, laboratory, manufacturing, and building environments / technologies.

• Strong written and oral communication skills, relationship building, and leadership skills.

• Self-starter with the ability to concurrently manage several projects or assignments.

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.

The expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is posted. Actual salary will vary based on several factors including but not limited to, relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan, based on eligibility, comprising of health and welfare plans for staff and eligible dependents, financial plans with opportunities to save towards retirement or other goals, work/life balance, and career development opportunities that may include:

• A comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions, group medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts

• A discretionary annual bonus program, or for field sales representatives, a sales-based incentive plan

• Stock-based long-term incentives

• Award-winning time-off plans

• Flexible work models, including remote and hybrid work arrangements, where possible

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Application deadline

Amgen does not have an application deadline for this position; we will continue accepting applications until we receive a sufficient number or select a candidate for the position.

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 and live the Amgen values to continue advancing science to serve patients. Together, we compete in the fight against serious disease.

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