Senior Manager, HR Transformation – Internal Consulting

Amgen

HR Transformation Senior Manager at Amgen leading and executing HR transformation initiatives across a global enterprise. Driving efficiency, agility, and an enhanced employee experience in HR operations.

Posted 6/5/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $129,169 - $174,757 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ServiceNow

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Serve as a thought partner by bringing insights on HR innovation, digital HR trends, service delivery models, and the future of work.
Support roadmap shaping and prioritization by connecting operational, analytics, and talent implications.
Recommend modernization, simplification, and automation opportunities including AI and digital solutions that strengthen HR’s impact at scale.
Ensure project outcomes enhance employee and manager experiences, reduce complexity, and strengthen the HR function’s ability to support business growth.
Lead end-to-end delivery of large-scale, multi-year global HR transformation projects — from planning through execution, monitoring, and sustainment.
Act as a trusted advisor to senior HR and business leaders, providing insights on transformation progress, risks, and strategic implications to resolve complex HR challenges.
Partner with workstreams to co-create and manage project scope, objectives, timelines, deliverables, and success metrics aligned with HR and business strategies.
Oversee complex workstreams spanning multiple functions, geographies, and stakeholder groups, ensuring alignment and collaboration across the enterprise.
Apply project management best practices (Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid) to drive progress, mitigate risks, and ensure accountability at every stage of the initiative.
Establish project governance frameworks, including steering committees, status reports, and performance metrics.
Facilitate cross-functional workshops, design sessions, and retrospectives to foster alignment, surface interdependencies, and accelerate decision-making.
Partner with HR and business leadership to identify transformation priorities and ensure strategic alignment.
Identify process, behavioral, capability, and technology shifts required across initiatives and then partner with Change Management to translate impacts into communications, training, readiness, and adoption plans.
Ensure change activities are integrated across workstreams and timed appropriately for stakeholders.
Drive a culture of accountability, collaboration, and execution excellence within global and virtual project teams.
Provide leadership and mentorship to project team members and workstream leads to build project management capabilities within HR.
Partner with HR Analytics & Insights to embed KPIs, dashboards, and measurement frameworks into transformation initiatives.
Present concise, data-driven updates and insights to executive stakeholders and governance bodies.
Manage project budgets, vendor relationships, and resource planning to ensure effective use of organizational investments.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Doctorate degree and 2 years of HR project management or HR transformation experience.
Master’s degree and 4 years of HR project management or HR transformation experience.
Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of HR project management or HR transformation experience.
Associate’s degree and 10 years of HR project management or HR transformation experience.
High school diploma/ GED and 12 years of HR project management or HR transformation experience.
5+ years of project manager experience supporting a multinational organization.
Experience consulting (internal or external) in HR transformation, AI-first digital transformations, operating model design, or process optimization for large and/or global enterprises.
Familiarity with applications such as Smartsheet, MS Project, other project management tools designed to plan, track, and organize global projects.
Ability to manage multiple activities and priorities with minimal direction in a rapidly changing and demanding environment.
Workshop facilitation and training development experience.
Understands business complexity and project interdependencies.
Demonstrates intellectual curiosity and the ability to question thought partners.
Team player able to work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus.
Knowledge of HR Systems such as Workday, ServiceNow, Orgvue, and Visier.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

HR project managementHR transformationproject management best practicesAgileWaterfallAI-first digital transformationsoperating model designprocess optimizationchange managementbudget management

Soft Skills

thought partnershipleadershipmentorshipcollaborationcommunicationinfluenceintellectual curiosityworkshop facilitationtraining developmentability to manage priorities