Training and Development Sr Mgr

Amgen; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive employee benefits package

Discretionary annual bonus program

Stock-based long-term incentives

Flexible work models

Job summary

A leading biotechnology company seeks an R&D Knowledge and Learning Sr Manager to lead scientific training initiatives. In this strategic role, you'll collaborate across teams to enhance medical knowledge and patient care. The ideal candidate should have a Doctorate degree and substantial experience in clinical or scientific affairs. With impressive benefits including a bonus program and flexible work models, this role in the U.S. is crucial to advancing medical excellence.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of clinical and/or scientific affairs experience with a Doctorate.
• 4+ years with a Master’s degree or 6+ years with a Bachelor’s.
• Understanding of medical science and treatment landscape.
• Associate’s degree and 10 years of clinical and/or scientific affairs experience or
• High school diploma / GED and 12 years of clinical and/or scientific affairs experience.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with leadership to align training with strategy.
• Lead global scientific training implementation.
• Design strategies for evolving therapeutic landscapes.
• Partner with subject matter experts to develop high-quality scientific training content and materials internally, ensuring accuracy, relevance, and scientific rigor.
• Lead new hire and new-to-product onboarding, ensuring teams are equipped with a strong foundation in disease state, treatment landscape, data, and strategy to be effective in their roles.
• Serve as a lead in scientific training, helping shape the long-term vision of scientific education and positioning training as a driver of organizational excellence.
• Introduce new approaches, tools, and technologies to create engaging and impactful scientific training.
• Champion a culture of continuous scientific learning within Medical Affairs, fostering collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and scientific leadership development.
• Adapt scientific training to diverse geographies and functions, tailoring approaches to meet the needs of global and regional medical teams.
• Some travel may be required (approximately 20%).

Skills

Understanding of learning methodology and design

Excellent technical writing

Project management skills

Ability to interface cross-functionally

Education

Doctorate degree

Master’s degree

Bachelor’s degree

Associate’s degree

High school diploma / GED

Job description

Overview

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HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION? 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.

R&D Knowledge and Learning Sr Manager

What You Will Do

As a Knowledge and Learning professional, you will play a strategic leadership role in shaping how our Global Medical Affairs teams learn, grow, and deliver on their mission. You will be responsible for proactively planning, implementing, and delivering scientific training globally, focused on advancing knowledge of therapeutic areas, the treatment landscape, and emerging data. This role requires close cross-functional collaboration with Global Medical, Scientific Communications, Clinical Development, and Medical Science Liaisons to ensure training strategies are aligned, integrated, and impactful.

By driving a culture of scientific learning and excellence, you will ensure that medical teams are equipped with the scientific expertise needed, empowering them to advance patient care and achieve meaningful impact.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Global Medical Affairs leadership to anticipate learning needs, align scientific training with organizational strategy, and ensure they equip teams with the expertise required to meet their objectives.
• Lead the end-to-end process of proactively planning, implementing, and delivering global scientific trainings aligned with medical and organizational priorities.
• Design and implement global scientific learning strategies that deepen expertise and prepare teams for the evolving therapeutic landscape.
• Partner with subject matter experts to develop high-quality scientific training content and materials internally, ensuring accuracy, relevance, and scientific rigor.
• Lead new hire and new-to-product onboarding, ensuring teams are equipped with a strong foundation in disease state, treatment landscape, data, and strategy to be effective in their roles.
• Serve as a lead in scientific training, helping shape the long-term vision of scientific education and positioning training as a driver of organizational excellence.
• Introduce new approaches, tools, and technologies (e.g., digital platforms, modular learning, peer-to-peer exchange) to create engaging and impactful scientific training.
• Champion a culture of continuous scientific learning within Medical Affairs, fostering collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and scientific leadership development.
• Adapt scientific training to diverse geographies and functions, tailoring approaches to meet the needs of global and regional medical teams.
• Some travel may be required (approximately 20%).

What We Expect Of You

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The dynamic professional we seek is a Sr. Manager with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree and 2 years of clinical and/or scientific affairs experience or
• Master’s degree and 4 years of clinical and/or scientific affairs experience or
• Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of clinical and/or scientific affairs experience or
• Associate’s degree and 10 years of clinical and/or scientific affairs experience or
• High school diploma / GED and 12 years of clinical and/or scientific affairs experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• A professional degree of Pharm.D., or MD/DO or PhD in a relevant medical science field (e.g., biology, chemistry, pharmacology) with 5 or more years of biotech/pharmaceutical and/or clinical experience
• Understanding of learning methodology and design
• Excellent technical writing, oral, presentation, and project management skills and the ability to search, critically analyze, and summarize scientific literature
• Understanding of the pharmaceutical commercialization process and knowledge of the legal and regulatory guidelines affecting promotion of prescription products
• Ability to interface cross-functionally in a dynamic, matrixed environment

Thrive

What You Can Expect Of Us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for our teammates’ professional and personal growth and well-being.

The expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is posted. Actual salary will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to, relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.

Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan comprising health and welfare plans for staff and eligible dependents, financial plans with opportunities to save towards retirement or other goals, work/life balance, and career development opportunities including:

• 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.
• Stock-based long-term incentives.
• Award-winning time-off plans and bi-annual company-wide shutdowns.
• Flexible work models, including remote work arrangements, where possible.

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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.

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.