Director, R&D Learning Business Partner

Part of Amgen's R&D Strategy & Operations organization, the R&D Knowledge & Learning team serves staff across R&D and the Office of the Chief Medical Officer, transforming how we learn and grow together. We are reimagining learning as an integrated, longitudinal journey—inclusive of but not limited to traditional training—by deeply understanding roles, personas, and the competencies needed to deliver on our goals. Through our capabilities and expertise, which include learning & development, knowledge management, and the Amgen Library, we orchestrate tailored learning experiences that drive personal and organizational growth, empowering our teams to deliver on Amgen’s mission to serve patients around the world.

As the Learning Business Partner (LBP) for R&D/OCMO, you will act as a strategic partner to one or more sub-functions, working closely with VP-level senior leadership to understand business priorities, identify learning needs, and lead a team of learning professionals to co-create longitudinal learning strategies and plans that drive performance and innovation. Your team of learning professionals will orchestrate the design and delivery of learning interventions (inclusive of, but not limited to training), ensuring they are aligned to organizational goals with a focus on key roles and business transformation, and supporting learning across the employee lifecycle.

In this highly collaborative role, you will be the bridge between the R&D Knowledge & Learning organization, which includes our R&D Knowledge Management team and our Corporate Library capabilities, and one or more R&D/OCMO sub-functional leadership teams. You will embed yourself alongside your stakeholders to form a deep understanding their business as well as the needed competencies and knowledge, translating that into longitudinal learning experiences for key roles and driving the orchestration of a thoughtful and purposeful mix of learning interventions to achieve business results in a way that meets the learner where they are at. Your team will play a key role in managing the learning lifecycle from needs assessment through to execution and measurement, with an emphasis on aligning learning with strategic business outcomes.

We are hiring for 3 total positions. While all 3 roles share the same core purpose of shaping learning strategies and driving capability development, each role will support a unique set of sub-functional client groups in the R&D and Chief Medical Office organizations:

• Research, Commercialization (CMZ), and R&D Strategy & Operations (RDSO)
• Global Development
• Global Medical, Global Regulatory Affairs & Strategy (GRAAS), and Global Patient Safety (GPS)

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary learning business partner for sub-functional leaders in R&D or OCMO, translating business priorities into longitudinal learning strategies that are inclusive of, but not limited to training.

• Lead and work through a team to:

• Orchestrate functionally specific onboarding experiences that integrate seamlessly with enterprise onboarding efforts, with a heavy touch on key roles, while establishing a consistent framework for broader use across the sub-function(s).
• Conduct thorough learning needs assessments at the role and department-level to understand competency requirements, and drive decision making in collaboration with stakeholders to articulate skill gaps and development priorities for key roles in the organization.

• Design and implement learning solutions across various modalities (live, virtual, self-serve, leveraging knowledge management capabilities where appropriate) that are tailored to specific roles and aligned with strategic priorities and transformation initiatives.
• Partner with Amgen’s Quality organization and GxP Learning team to enable a vision for learning beyond read and certify, leveraging knowledge management techniques and other modern approaches.

• Partner with internal and external content developers and trainers to curate and deliver high-quality learning experiences that drive individual and team performance.

• Apply learning measurement frameworks to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of learning programs and implement improvements based on performance metrics.

• Act as a change leader, ensure value realization of transformation initiatives by creating learning experiences that are inclusive of, but not limited to training, that foster the adoption of new processes, systems, and behaviors.

• Ensure alignment of learning i