HR Transformation: Internal Consulting - Sr. Manager

Amgen Inc. (IR); Thousand Oaks (CA); Hybrid; USD 129,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Amgen Inc. is seeking an Internal Consulting Senior Manager to lead global HR transformation initiatives.

You will partner with HR Centers of Excellence, HR Technology, and business leaders to design and deliver large-scale programs modernizing how HR operates, driving efficiency, agility, and an enhanced employee experience. The role requires strategic thinking, hands-on execution, and the ability to manage cross-functional workstreams across geographies, with a focus on AI-enabled solutions

Qualifications

• Doctorate or equivalent with 2+ years HR project management or HR transformation experience.
• Master’s or equivalent with 4+ years HR transformation experience.
• Bachelor’s or equivalent with 6+ years HR project management experience.
• Associate’s or equivalent with 10+ years HR project management experience.
• High school diploma with 12 years education and 6+ years HR transformation exposure.

Responsibilities

• Lead and execute large-scale HR transformation initiatives.
• Partner with COE, HR Technology, leadership, and HR business partners.
• Define strategic direction and deliver modern HR operating models.
• Drive efficiency, agility, and employee experience enhancements.
• Manage end-to-end delivery across global, multi-year programs.
• Provide governance, risk assessment, and stakeholder alignment.
• Oversee budgets, vendors, and resource planning.
• Mentor junior team members and grow PM capabilities.

Skills

HR project management

Change management

AI-driven transformation

Workshop facilitation

Education

Doctorate + 2 yrs HR proj mgmt/HR transformation

Master’s + 4 yrs HR proj mgmt/HR transformation

Bachelor’s + 6 yrs HR proj mgmt/HR transformation

Associate’s + 10 yrs HR proj mgmt/HR transformation

High school + 12 yrs degree + 6 yrs HR proj mgmt/HR transformation

Tools

Smartsheet

MS Project

Workday

ServiceNow

Orgvue

Visier

Job description

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.

HR Transformation: Internal Consulting - Sr. Manager

What you will do Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. 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.

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.

Basic Qualifications:

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

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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.

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.

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.

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Salary Range 129,168.55USD -174,757.45 USD

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Application deadline Amgen does not have an application deadline for this position; we will continue accepting applications until we receive a sufficient number or select a candidate for the position.

Sponsorship Sponsorship for this role is not guaranteed.

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. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Amgen is committed to unlocking the potential of biology for patients suffering from serious illnesses by discovering, developing, manufacturing and delivering innovative human therapeutics. This approach begins by using tools like advanced human genetics to unravel the complexities of disease and understand the fundamentals of human biology. Amgen focuses on areas of high unmet medical need and leverages its biologics manufacturing expertise to strive for solutions that improve health outcomes and dramatically improve people's lives. A biotechnology pioneer since 1980, Amgen has grown to be one of the world's leading independent biotechnology companies, has reached millions of patients around the world and is developing a pipeline of medicines with breakaway potential, for more information visit www.amgen.com and follow us on www.twitter.com/amgen