HR Transformation: Internal Consulting - Sr. Manager

Amgen • Thousand Oaks, CA

1d • $129,169 - $174,757

About The Position

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 pioneered 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. The Internal Consulting Senior Manager will play a pivotal role in leading and executing complex, high-impact HR transformation initiatives across a global enterprise. You’ll collaborate with HR Centers of Excellence, HR Technology, business leaders and HR business partners to define strategic direction; and design and deliver large-scale initiatives that modernize how HR operates — driving efficiency, agility, and an enhanced employee experience. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker and hands-on executor with a passion for transforming HR processes, technology, and ways of working to meet the evolving needs of a dynamic global organization.

Requirements

• Doctorate degree and 2 years of HR project management or HR transformation experience.
• OR Master’s degree and 4 years of HR project management or HR transformation experience.
• OR Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of HR project management or HR transformation experience.
• OR Associate’s degree and 10 years of HR project management or HR transformation experience.
• OR High school diploma/ GED and 12 years of degree and 6 years of HR project management or HR transformation experience.

Nice To Haves

• 5+ years of project manager experience supporting a multinational organization.
• Experience consulting (internal or external) in HR transformation, AI-first digital transformations, operating model design, or process optimization for large and/or global enterprises.
• Familiarity with applications such as Smartsheet, MS Project, other project management tools designed to plan, track, and organize global projects.
• Ability to manage multiple activities and priorities with minimal direction in a rapidly changing and demanding environment.
• Workshop facilitation and training development experience.
• Understands business complexity and project interdependencies.
• Demonstrates intellectual curiosity and the ability to question thought partners.
• Team player able to work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus
• Knowledge of HR Systems such as Workday, ServiceNow, Orgvue, and Visier.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a thought partner by bringing insights on HR innovation, digital HR trends, service delivery models, and the future of work.
• Support roadmap shaping and prioritization by connecting operational, analytics, and talent implications.
• Recommend modernization, simplification, and automation opportunities including AI and digital solutions that strengthen HR’s impact at scale.
• Ensure project outcomes enhance employee and manager experiences, reduce complexity, and strengthen the HR function’s ability to support business growth.
• Lead end-to-end delivery of large-scale, multi-year global HR transformation projects — from planning through execution, monitoring, and sustainment.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior HR and business leaders, providing insights on transformation progress, risks, and strategic implications to resolve complex HR challenges.
• Partner with workstreams to co-create and manage project scope, objectives, timelines, deliverables, and success metrics aligned with HR and business strategies.
• Oversee complex workstreams spanning multiple functions, geographies, and stakeholder groups, ensuring alignment and collaboration across the enterprise.
• Apply project management best practices (Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid) to drive progress, mitigate risks, and ensure accountability at every stage of the initiative.
• Establish project governance frameworks, including steering committees, status reports, and performance metrics.
• Facilitate cross-functional workshops, design sessions, and retrospectives to foster alignment, surface interdependencies, and accelerate decision-making.
• Partner with HR and business leadership to identify transformation priorities and ensure strategic alignment.
• Identify process, behavioral, capability, and technology shifts required across initiatives and then partner with Change Management to translate impacts into communications, training, readiness, and adoption plans.
• Ensure change activities are integrated across workstreams and timed appropriately for stakeholders.
• Drive a culture of accountability, collaboration, and execution excellence within global and virtual project teams.
• Provide leadership and mentorship to project team members and workstream leads to build project management capabilities within HR.
• Partner with HR Analytics & Insights to embed KPIs, dashboards, and measurement frameworks into transformation initiatives.
• Present concise, data-driven updates and insights to executive stakeholders and governance bodies.
• Manage project budgets, vendor relationships, and resource planning to ensure effective use of organizational investments.

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior