Director, R&D Learning Business Partner – Global Development, Development Operations
Job Description:
• 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.
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• 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.
Apply Now
Apply Now