Sr Associate Human Resources

Career Category

Human Resources

Job Description

Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients

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. As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives.

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. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

Sr Associate Human Resources

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. A career at Amgen is a chance for you to make the most of your experience and education at the world's preeminent biotechnology company.  Amgen has pioneered important new human therapeutics that have changed the practice of medicine, helping millions of people around the world in the fight against cancer, kidney disease, rheumatoid arthritis, bone disease and other serious illnesses. Here, you will work side by side with some of the best minds in the industry and participate in groundbreaking projects to unlock the healing potential of biology.

Amgen is seeking talented Human Resources Professionals with a broad variety of HR experience in client-facing and/or Center of Excellence (COE) roles with large, multi-national companies. This position provides an excellent entry point to quickly learn Amgen, both the business and the HR function, while providing high visibility and opportunity to interact with an extensive range of HR and business leaders.

This level of visibility and opportunity comes with high performance expectations. That means a strong ability to consistently deliver results when measured against a high bar while living the Amgen values. For those with potential, ambition, and proven capability, additional roles within HR await you. To take full advantage of that future opportunity, willingness to relocate is strongly desired.

The HR Senior Associate and Organizational Effectiveness Lead – R&D will work directly with the Vice President of HR supporting the same broad, Amgen team (i.e., EVP of R&D Jay Bradner, multiple SVPs and the entire 5,000+ person global organization). This role will work closely with the other R&D HR Business Partners to drive business and HR process maximization.

Key responsibilities include:

• Support the R&D leaders and HR Business Partners on core processes including Performance Measurement, Talent Management, and Workforce Strategy
• Partner with Global HRBPs supporting acquisitions, restructurings, operational excellence activities
• Translate R&D global HR needs into input for HR COE’s (Compensation & Benefits, Talent, Development, Diversity, etc.)
• Partner with COE’s in deploying new HR programs globally
• Partner with R&D clients and HR to interpret data, apply judgment and suggest necessary course of action for resolution
• Lead intra- and cross-functional HR initiatives focused on staff development and retention

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek is an individual with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

Master’s degree

OR

Bachelor’s degree and 2 years of Human Resources experience

OR

Associate’s degree and 6 years of Human Resources experience

OR

High school diploma / GED and 8 years of Human Resources experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree or MBA

• Demonstrated comfort with ambiguity and organizational change
• Ability to interact, influence and build relationships with all levels of staff, management, and executives
• Ability to analyze situations and exercise sound judgment in determining appropriate courses of action
• Ability to understand the clients’ needs and develop both strategic and tactical solutions to tangible business challenges
• Strong quantitative, analytical (technical and business) and problem-solving skills--and AI tools, in appropriate