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Role Description

At Amgen, Global Development Operations (GDO) plays a critical role in delivering life-changing medicines to patients faster, smarter, and at unprecedented scale. As our pipeline grows in complexity and ambition, how we design, deploy, and enable our workforce must evolve just as boldly.

This role sits at the heart of that evolution.

As a Director within Global Development Operations, you will lead the design and execution of foundational capability infrastructure across GDO—ensuring our pursuit of excellence through innovation and transformation of technology, process and of hiring, onboarding, training, and functional communications are intentional, coordinated, and aligned to enterprise transformation priorities.

You will serve as a strategic integrator across changes with technology, process and workforce planning, talent enablement, and change management, translating strategy into disciplined execution that strengthens organizational readiness.

It is an opportunity to shape how GDO builds and scales its transitions, capabilities, partnering across functions to ensure the advances in our technologies and process ensure our capability plans are adapted and that the right people are hired, developed, and equipped to deliver from Day 1.

Success in this role means driving clarity across complex transitions, embedding sustainable workforce practices, and enabling leaders to lead through change with confidence of major transformational changes. It is a core component to of successful innovative implementation.

If you are energized by building scalable systems, thrive at the intersection of strategy and execution, and are motivated by enabling high-performing organizations, this role offers a unique opportunity to drive durable impact across Global Development Operations.

Qualifications

• Doctorate degree & 4 years of directly related experience within clinical operations OR
• Master’s degree & 8 years of directly related experience within clinical operations OR
• Bachelor’s degree & 10 years of directly related experience within clinical operations

Requirements

• Ability to influence at all levels of the organization
• Strong background in clinical operations and the business associated with portfolio delivery
• Strong collaborating and influencing skills with a demonstrated ability to achieve goals and results in a highly matrixed environment
• Demonstrated ability to design and execute scalable workforce processes and governance frameworks
• Experience leading hiring strategy, workforce enablement, or capability development initiatives
• Ability to draft story boards and framing for organizational communications
• Exceptional written and oral communications skills, including executive-level communications
• Demonstrated experience leading functional or enterprise change initiatives
• Ability to translate strategy into structured execution plans and measurable outcomes
• Experience partnering with HR and learning organizations to drive workforce readiness
• Strong project and program management capabilities
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguity while driving clarity and alignment
• Understanding of risk, finance and resource management and organizational capacity
• Experience leading organizations through change

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, 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 where possible

Company Description

At Amgen, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do.

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.

Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline of medicines to treat cancer, heart disease, inflammatory conditions, rare diseases, and obesity and obesity-related conditions.

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.