At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead workforce capability and learning strategies to transform the organisation.
- Company: Join Amgen, a leading biotechnology company making a difference worldwide.
- Benefits: Generous rewards, health benefits, work/life balance, and career growth opportunities.
- Other info: Collaborative culture that values diverse ideas and empowers teammates.
- Why this job: Shape the future of workforce development in a dynamic and innovative environment.
- Qualifications: Degree educated with experience in workforce capability and organisational learning.
The predicted salary is between 54000 - 66000 £ per year.
At Amgen, every challenge is an opportunity. Our shared mission—to serve patients—has driven our status as one of the world's preeminent biotechnology companies, reaching over 10 million patients worldwide. Leverage your high-level expertise to lead and forge partnerships that advance the biotechnical and biopharmaceutical science that can turn the tide of serious, life-interrupting illnesses.
In this vital role you will lead the strategy for workforce capability, learning, and onboarding across Global Development Operations (GDO), enabling the organization to build the skills, behaviours, and capabilities needed to support ongoing transformation and future business priorities.
Partnering with senior leaders, you will establish scalable capability frameworks, learning strategies, and workforce readiness programs that strengthen organizational effectiveness, accelerate adoption of new ways of working, and deliver measurable business outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and lead GDO's workforce capability, competency, and learning strategy aligned to business priorities and future organizational needs.
- Develop scalable competency frameworks and multi-year capability roadmaps to support workforce planning, career development, and organizational effectiveness.
- Oversee learning strategy, governance, and demand management, partnering with HR, R&D Learning, Quality, and external providers to deliver impactful development solutions.
- Lead GDO's onboarding and workforce readiness strategy, driving consistent, role-based experiences and continuous improvement of learning operations.
- Partner across business functions to strengthen knowledge management, capability development, and adoption of new technologies, including AI and digital transformation.
- Use workforce and learning analytics to identify capability gaps, measure impact, and inform strategic workforce investment decisions.
- Build and lead a high-performing team, fostering innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement across workforce capability and learning.
What we expect of you
We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. What we seek in you as an experienced professional, are these qualifications and skills:
- Degree educated.
- Experience in workforce capability, organizational learning, talent development, organizational effectiveness, or related disciplines within global organizations.
- Proven success developing enterprise capability frameworks, skills strategies, and workforce development initiatives aligned with business objectives.
- Experience building and scaling workforce capability, learning, or organizational effectiveness functions, including governance and operating models.
- Strong understanding of future workforce trends, skills-based organizations, digital learning, AI, and workforce analytics.
- Ability to anticipate future capability needs and translate business strategy into workforce development plans.
- Strong track record influencing senior leaders and collaborating across HR, learning, quality, compliance, and business functions in complex matrix organizations.
- Strategic, innovative, and experienced in designing new organizational frameworks and capabilities.
- Excellent executive presence, communication, consulting, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
What you can expect of us
As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, so we work to care for our teammates' professional and personal growth and well-being.
- Clear and disciplined strategic vision for the future that leverages superior-quality products, operational excellence and top-shelf-talent.
- Diverse and inclusive community of belonging, where teammates are empowered to bring ideas to the table and act.
- Generous Total Rewards Plan comprising health, finance and wealth, work/life balance, and career benefits.
APPLY NOW for a career that defies imagination. What we do is hard. It should be. We are working with each other against the challenges of today for the promise of tomorrow. Lead the way.
Senior Director Workforce Capability and Learning in Cambridge employer: Amgen
Amgen in Uxbridge is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work culture that prioritises innovation and collaboration in the biopharmaceutical sector. Employees benefit from comprehensive professional development opportunities, competitive compensation, and a commitment to quality and compliance that empowers them to make a meaningful impact on clinical trials. With a focus on employee well-being and a supportive environment, Amgen stands out as a rewarding place to advance your career.
