Sr Manager, GxP Training Instructional Designer

Amgen; Uxbridge; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Amgen in the United Kingdom is seeking a Sr Manager, Instructional Designer to lead the design and delivery of training across instructor-led, virtual, and digital formats. You will partner with SMEs to translate complex content into effective learning solutions, while ensuring regulatory alignment, quality, and audit readiness.

You will drive curricula, assessments, and tools, applying adult-learning principles and leveraging Articulate/Captivate and AI-enabled approaches to improve learning

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in instructional design, education, learning and development, organizational development, or related field.
• Experience designing training in a regulated, quality-controlled, or highly governed environment.
• Strong knowledge of adult-learning theory, instructional design principles, curriculum development, assessment design, and learning evaluation.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop instructor-led, virtual, e-learning, blended-learning, and performance-support materials.
• Partner with subject-matter experts to define learning objectives and translate complex, technical, or regulated content into clear, effective learning solutions.
• Create and maintain curricula, course outlines, facilitator guides, participant materials, e-learning modules, job aids, assessments, and evaluation tools.
• Apply adult-learning principles, instructional design methods, accessibility practices, and assessment standards.
• Ensure learning materials meet regulatory, quality, document-control, and audit-readiness requirements.
• Maintain accurate content versions, review records, approvals, and revision history.
• Evaluate curriculum structure, course sequencing, assignments, assessments, and learner progression; provide guidance to instructors, program owners, and subject-matter experts.
• Ensure assignments and assessments align with required competencies, curriculum outcomes, job expectations, and compliance obligations.
• Review learner feedback, performance data, and business needs to improve learning effectiveness.
• Support learning-process transformation by helping implement improved tools, standards, workflows, governance, and ways of working.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, modernize, or digitize learning processes across the learning lifecycle.
• Stay current on instructional design, learning technology, learning analytics, accessibility, and compliance-training practices.

Skills

Instructional design

Curriculum development

Learning evaluation

Adult learning theory

Project management

Leadership

Communication

Interpersonal skills

SCORM LMS

Regulatory training

Articulate

Captivate

AI technology

Education

Bachelor’s degree in instructional design or related field

Tools

Articulate

Captivate

AI technology

SCORM LMS

Job description

If you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. At Amgen our shared mission—to serve patients—drives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies. We are global collaborators who achieve together—researching, manufacturing and delivering ever-better products that reach over 10 million patients worldwide. It’s time for a career you can be proud of. Join us.

Sr Manager, Instructional Designer

This role will partner closely with the Governance pillar, ensuring training materials drive knowledge transfer and deliver appropriate training effectiveness. Additionally, this role will drive change through our overall GxP Learning process through continuous improvement and end user experience. Focusing on effective training material, appropriate assignments and maintaining fit for purpose curriculum

What You Will Do

• Design and develop instructor-led, virtual, e-learning, blended-learning, and performance-support materials.
• Partner with subject-matter experts to define learning objectives and translate complex, technical, or regulated content into clear, effective learning solutions.
• Create and maintain curricula, course outlines, facilitator guides, participant materials, e-learning modules, job aids, assessments, and evaluation tools.
• Apply adult-learning principles, instructional design methods, accessibility practices, and assessment standards.
• Ensure learning materials meet regulatory, quality, document-control, and audit-readiness requirements.
• Maintain accurate content versions, review records, approvals, and revision history.
• Evaluate curriculum structure, course sequencing, assignments, assessments, and learner progression; provide guidance to instructors, program owners, and subject-matter experts.
• Ensure assignments and assessments align with required competencies, curriculum outcomes, job expectations, and compliance obligations.
• Review learner feedback, performance data, and business needs to improve learning effectiveness.
• Support learning-process transformation by helping implement improved tools, standards, workflows, governance, and ways of working.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, modernize, or digitize learning processes across the learning lifecycle.
• Stay current on instructional design, learning technology, learning analytics, accessibility, and compliance-training practices.

WIN

Qualifications

What we expect of you

• Minimum of 8 years’ experience in Operations, Development and / or related functions, experience in biopharmaceutical / life sciences industries preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in instructional design, education, learning and development, organizational development, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
• Experience designing and developing training in a regulated, quality-controlled, or highly governed environment.
• Strong knowledge of adult-learning theory, instructional design principles, curriculum development, assessment design, and learning evaluation.
• Ability to interpret policies, procedures, technical content, and regulatory requirements and translate them into effective training.
• Experience providing guidance on curriculum, assignments, assessments, and learner requirements.
• Knowledge of industry-standard learning tools and platforms such as Articulate, Captivate, and AI technology
• Proven track record of successfully managing e-learning projects from conception to completion
• Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• Knowledgeable on SCORM LMS

THRIVE

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.

• Vast opportunities to learn and move up and across our global organization
• 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