HR Transformation Sr. Project Manager

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. 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.

What Will You Do

The Senior Project Manager will play a pivotal role in leading and executing complex, high-impact HR transformation initiatives across a global enterprise. This position partners closely with HR Centers of Excellence, HR Technology, business leaders and HR business partners to design and deliver large-scale change 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.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Program and Project Leadership

• Lead end-to-end delivery of large-scale, multi-year global HR transformation projects — from planning through execution, monitoring, and sustainment.
• 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.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior HR and business leaders, providing insights on transformation progress, risks, and strategic implications by using integrated project tools.
• Facilitate cross-functional workshops, design sessions, and retrospectives to foster alignment, surface interdependencies, and accelerate decision-making.

Change Management

• 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.

Strategy & External Perspective

• 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 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.

Team Leadership

• 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.

Performance Tracking and Reporting

• 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.

Basic Qualifications and Experience:

• Master’s degree and 12+ years of project management or HR transformation work OR
• Bachelor’s degree and 14+ years of project management or HR transformation work
• Minimum of 5+ years as a project manager supporting a multinational organization

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience consulting (internal or external) in HR transformation, 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.

Professional Certifications: 

• Project management (PMP) certification highly desired

Soft Skills:

• Analytical, interpersonal, and trouble shooting skills
• Effective communication skills (both verbal and written), including the ability to interact with Amgen senior management effectively and confidently
• Ability to work effectively with global, virtual teams
• High degree of initiative and self-motivation
• Ability to manage multiple priorities successfully
• Collaborative, with a focus on achieving team goals
• High degree of initiative and self-motivation.
• Team-oriented, with a focus on achieving team goals

What you can expect of us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for your professional and personal growth and well-being. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we’ll support your journey every step of the way.

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards Plans that are aligned with local industry standards.

Apply now for a career that defies imagination

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As an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people around the world, Amgen fosters an inclusive environment of diverse, ethical, committed and highly accomplished people who respect each other and live the Amgen values to continue advancing science to serve patients. Together, we compete in the fight against serious disease.

Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

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