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Join our team atAMGEN Capability Center Portugal number 1 company in Best WorkplacesTMhttps:// in Portugal in 2024 (category 201-500 employees) by the Great Place to Work Institute. We have a team of over 500 talented people and more than 40 different nationalities diverse areas of expertise and professional experience that are shaping the future of healthcare. This is your chance to explore a world of opportunities in different areas such as Cybersecurity Data & Analytics Digital Technology and Innovation Finance General & Admin Human Resources Regulatory Affairs and many Lisbons city center our AMGEN office fosters innovation excellence and inspiration. Come thrive with us at AMGEN supporting our mission To Serve Patients. What we do at AMGEN matters in peoples lives.

HR Transformation Sr. Project Manager

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WHAT YOU WILL DO

The Senior Project Manager will play a pivotal role in leading and executing complex high-impact HR transformation initiatives across a global enterprise. This position partners closely with HR Centers of Excellence HR Technology business leaders and HR business partners to design and deliver large-scale change 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.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Program and Project Leadership

• Lead end-to-end delivery of large-scale multi-year global HR transformation projects from planning through execution monitoring and sustainment.

• 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.

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior HR and business leaders providing insights on transformation progress risks and strategic implications by using integrated project tools.

• Facilitate cross-functional workshops design sessions and retrospectives to foster alignment surface interdependencies and accelerate decision-making.

Change Management

• 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.

Strategy & External Perspective

• 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 that strengthen HRs impact at scale.

• Ensure project outcomes enhance employee and manager experiences reduce complexity and strengthen the HR functions ability to support business growth.

Team Leadership

• 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.

Performance Tracking and Reporting

• 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.

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WHAT WE EXPECT OF YOU

Basic Qualifications and Experience:

• Masters degree and 6 years of project management or HR transformation work OR

• Bachelors degree and 10 years of project management or HR transformation work

• Minimum of 5 years as a project manager supporting a multinational organization

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience consulting (internal or external) in HR transformation 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.

Professional Certifications:

• Project management (PMP) certification highly desired

Soft Skills:

• Analytical interpersonal and trouble shooting skills

• Effective communication skills (both verbal and written) including the ability to interact with Amgen senior management effectively and confidently

• Ability to work effectively with global virtual teams

• High degree of initiative and self-motivation

• Ability to manage multiple priorities successfully

• Collaborative with a focus on achieving team goals

• High degree of initiative and self-motivation.

• Team-oriented with a focus on achieving team goals

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WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT OF US

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

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

• Diverse and inclusive community of belonging where colleagues are empowered to bring ideas to the table take risks and act.

• Generous AMGEN Total Rewards Plan comprising healthcare finance wealth and career benefits.

• Flexible work arrangements.

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EQUAL OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT

AMGEN is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider you without regard to your race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin protected veteran status or disability status.

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