Senior Director, R&D Capability Enablement

About the role

Amgen is hiring a Senior Director, R&D Capability Enablement, to turn R&D strategy into learning experiences, role readiness and development opportunities that build workforce capability across R&D. Working with R&D leaders and functional learning partners, the role defines how priority capabilities are built, designs the experiences that enable them and prepares employees to perform successfully.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with R&D leaders to identify current and emerging capability needs, sequence learning investments and maintain a rolling capability roadmap reviewed at least twice a year.
• Lead and develop instructional designers, set portfolio priorities, allocate work and coach the team on learning design and delivery.
• Create role-based learning journeys, curricula and end-to-end learning experiences, including content development and facilitation with subject matter experts.
• Translate R&D priorities into a shared capability architecture and framework, including core capabilities and proficiency expectations, and turn it into role-based learning architecture and manager resources.
• Oversee training governance, training management and assignment processes, and define readiness expectations for priority functions and critical roles.
• Design programs for future- and high-potential talent, such as internships, rotations, mentorship and capability academies (e.g., AI application).
• Define measures for each learning goal, create dashboards and reports, and evaluate learning investments with business measures.
• Set content creation standards, define a content management strategy (taxonomy, ownership, version control, discoverability, archiving, retirement) and maintain a curated R&D learning catalog.
• Design a learning operating model with clear governance and decision rights, and partner with each R&D function to tailor capability builds to local needs.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree and 10+ years in learning and development or a related field.
• Strong expertise in adult learning, instructional design, performance consulting and digital learning ecosystems.
• Experience designing and scaling enterprise or function-wide capability strategies.
• Preferred: 10 years in learning, capability or organizational development, with significant time in pharma/biotech R&D.
• Preferred: experience designing and scaling a capability framework across multiple functions, leading instructional designers or learning design teams, creating role-based learning journeys, academies and development programs, and setting content standards and governance.