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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 missionto serve patients living with serious illnessesdrives 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.

GxP Training Instructional Designer & Developer, Sr Manager

Let's do this. Let's change the world. In this vital role you 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

The Instructional Designer creates and improves training materials and learning experiences that support employee capability, business performance, and regulatory compliance. This role designs practical, engaging learning solutions while ensuring content is accurate, accessible, controlled, and aligned with applicable policies, procedures, and standards.

Key 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.

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 an individual with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree and 2 years of training experience
• OR
• Master's degree and 6 years of training experience
• OR
• Bachelor's degree and 8 years of training experience
• OR
• Associate's degree and 10 years of training experience
• OR
• High school diploma / GED and 12 years of training experience
• In addition to meeting at least one of the above requirements, you must have a minimum of 2 years experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs, or directing the allocation or resources. Your managerial experience may run concurrently with the required technical experience referenced above

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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

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.

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.

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan, based on eligibility, comprising of 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 that may include:

• 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. Refer to the Work Location Type in the job posting to see if this applies.

Apply Now And Make A Lasting Impact With The Amgen Team

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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.