Manager Incoming Quality
About this opportunity
Career Category
Quality
Job Description
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, 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 as:
QA Manager – Incoming Quality Assurance (IQA)
At Amgen Breda medicines are labelled, assembled, stored and eventually shipped to various countries worldwide. Every day more than 1000 people with 42 different nationalities are working on supply chain processes, manufacturing, marketing and sales of our medicines and clinical research into new medicines.
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What you will do
In this vital role, you will lead the Incoming Quality Assurance (IQA) team in Breda, ensuring high standards of quality and compliance across incoming materials and processes. You will play a key role in shaping a strong quality culture while developing and empowering your team to perform at their best.
You will oversee the end-to-end Incoming Quality processes, ensuring they are executed efficiently, consistently, and in full compliance with GMP and regulatory requirements. At the same time, you will act as a key decision-maker within QA, bringing a risk-based mindset to quality-related topics.
Your main responsibilities will include:
Leading, coaching, and developing the IQA team, including hiring and performance management
Ensuring effective sampling, inspection, and disposition of incoming materials
Reviewing and approving deviations, CAPAs, and change controls in line with quality standards
Acting as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Incoming Quality and driving continuous improvement initiatives
U se of digital tools and technologies to analyse team performance and identifying most valuable improvements’
In addition, you will work closely with cross-functional stakeholders and contribute to broader quality and business objectives by:
Supporting audits (internal and external) and ensuring inspection readiness
Driving process improvements and participating in key projects and programs
Collaborating with Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and Warehouse teams to ensure alignment and operational excellence
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What we expect of you
We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The QA Manager we seek is a strong leader with the following qualifications:
Minimum Qualifications:
Master’s degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Life Sciences, or equivalent
+3 years of experience in a GMP-regulated environment
Experience in people management
Proven experience in investigations, CAPAs, and process improvement
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience in the pharmaceutical industry
Experience in supplier management
Familiarity with deviations, CAPAs, and change control processes
Knowledge of risk management tools (e.g., FMEA)
Key Competencies:
Strong leadership and team development skills
Effective communication across multiple stakeholders
Analytical mindset with a risk-based approach
Decision-making skills and ability to manage complexity
Continuous improvement of mindset and interest in new technologies
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What you can expect of us
As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we work to care for our teammates’ professional and personal growth and well-being. Therefore, Amgen is regularly recognized as a Best Place To Work ©.
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 competitive salary, bonus structure, fixed 13th month, holiday allowance and a collective health insurance.
Focus on vitality with an on-site gym, vitality program and a restaurant with healthy food.
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Job details
How this role compares
Computed from every other active Quality role in our database, not just this employer's listings.
We currently track 164 comparable Manager Quality roles across 50 biopharma companies.
Salary context
44 of 164 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)
Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.
Where these roles are based
Top locations among the 164 comparable roles
+ 19 more countries
Seniority mix
164 of 164 peers have a known seniority level
Therapeutic area mix
0 of 164 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden
No peers with a known therapeutic area yet.
Similar opportunities
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How we calculate "similar"
No black box, no LLM guesswork: a deterministic score built from four normalized attributes. Here's this role's own peer group at different match levels, so you can see the mechanism, not just the result.
Every comparison starts from the same 100-point budget: 25 for working in the same function, 40 for the same therapeutic area, 20 for the same or adjacent seniority, 15 for the same country. A dimension we can't confirm on both sides contributes nothing, never a guess, never a free pass.
0 points, never a partial guess. A role we know almost nothing about beyond its function bottoms out at 25%; it never inflates to 100% just because there's little to compare against. Seniority uses a defined ladder (Associate → Manager → Associate Director → Senior → Principal → Director → Senior Director → Executive/VP) so "Director" and "Senior Director" count as adjacent, but "Director" and "Executive/VP" do not.