Amgen

Director, R&D Learning Business Partner – Global Development, Development Operations

Amgen

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $203,128 - $247,798 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Serve as the primary learning leader and strategic partner to Global Development and Global Development Operations, partnering with VP- and Executive Director-level leaders to shape capability strategies aligned to business priorities
  • Translate functional strategies into multi-year, longitudinal learning roadmaps focused on critical roles, transformation initiatives, and workforce readiness
  • Establish clear learning priorities and make portfolio-level trade-offs to maximize business impact and resource effectiveness
  • Lead, coach, and develop a team of learning professionals, setting clear expectations for strategic thinking, execution quality, and stakeholder partnership
  • Build leadership capability within the team, fostering accountability, inclusion, and continuous improvement
  • Allocate work, balance capacity, and ensure delivery excellence across a complex portfolio
  • Oversee the end-to-end learning lifecycle – from needs assessment through design, delivery, and measurement – ensuring learning solutions are intentional, role-based, and outcome-driven
  • Ensure consistent application of adult learning principles, instructional design rigor, and learning standards across modalities (live, virtual, blended, self-serve)
  • Partner with Quality and GxP Learning to enable a modern, compliant learning ecosystem that goes beyond “read and certify,” demonstrating knowledge management and contextual learning approaches
  • Act as a change leader for functional transformations, ensuring learning accelerates adoption of new processes, systems, and behaviors
  • Apply learning measurement frameworks to assess effectiveness, demonstrate value realization, and continuously improve solutions
  • Integrate learning into broader business planning and decision-making processes through influence and insight
  • Serve as an integrator across the R&D Knowledge & Learning organization, orchestrating capabilities from learning, knowledge management, professional skills, and the Amgen Library
  • Ensure alignment with enterprise learning strategies, platforms, and shared services
  • Manage internal and external partners to deliver scalable, high-quality learning experiences.

Requirements

  • Doctorate degree and 4 years of related experience
  • Or Master’s degree and 8 years of related experience
  • Or Bachelor’s degree and 10 years of related experience
  • Must have at least 4 years experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs, or directing the allocation of resources.
  • Demonstrated experience leading enterprise or function-wide learning strategies in a complex, matrixed organization
  • People leadership capability, including developing managers and senior individual contributors
  • Strong executive presence with experience consulting and influencing VP-level and above leaders
  • Deep knowledge of adult learning theory, instructional design, and learning technologies
  • Experience operating in regulated, quality-sensitive environments (biopharma preferred)
  • Ability to integrate learning, knowledge, and change management to drive sustained performance
  • Data-driven mentality with experience using learning metrics to inform strategy and decisions
  • Exceptional communication, storytelling, and stakeholder management skills.
Benefits
  • 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
  • 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 where possible.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
adult learning theoryinstructional designlearning technologieslearning measurement frameworksneeds assessmentlearning solutions designdata-driven decision makingchange managementresource allocationportfolio management
Soft Skills
leadershipcoachingstrategic thinkingstakeholder managementcommunicationinfluenceaccountabilitycontinuous improvementstorytellingteam development