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Senior Director Workforce Capability and Learning

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Degree educated
  • Experience in workforce capability, organizational learning, talent development, organizational effectiveness, or related disciplines within global organizations
  • Proven success developing enterprise capability frameworks, skills strategies, and workforce development initiatives aligned with business objectives
  • Strong understanding of future workforce trends, skills-based organizations, digital learning, AI, and workforce analytics

Responsibilities

  • Define and lead GDO's workforce capability, competency, and learning strategy aligned to business priorities and future organizational needs
  • Develop scalable competency frameworks and multi-year capability roadmaps to support workforce planning, career development, and organizational effectiveness
  • Oversee learning strategy, governance, and demand management, partnering with HR, RD Learning, Quality, and external providers to deliver impactful development solutions
  • Lead GDO's onboarding and workforce readiness strategy, driving consistent, role-based experiences and continuous improvement of learning operations

About the company

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Horizon

Biotechnology

At Horizon Therapeutics, we believe science and compassion must work together to transform lives. We are driven to deliver innovative medicines to those living with rare, autoimmune and severe inflammatory diseases because we uniquely understand the patient journey. For us, success is measured by the numbers that matter most – the number of lives we touch, the number we change and those we work to help save.

Company details

Company typeLarge
IndustryBiotechnology
Company size1001 - 5000

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Job Description

HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?

At Amgen, every challenge is an opportunity. And every opportunity brings the potential to change lives. Our shared mission—to serve patients—has driven our status as one of the world’s preeminent biotechnology companies, reaching over 10 million patients worldwide. Leverage your high-level expertise to lead and forge partnerships that advance the biotechnical and biopharmaceutical science that can turn the tide of serious, life-interrupting illnesses.

SENIOR DIRECTOR WORKFORCE CAPABILITY AND LEARNING

LIVE

What you will do

In this vital role you will lead the strategy for workforce capability, learning, and onboarding across Global Development Operations (GDO), enabling the organization to build the skills, behaviors, and capabilities needed to support ongoing transformation and future business priorities.

Partnering with senior leaders, you will establish scalable capability frameworks, learning strategies, and workforce readiness programs that strengthen organizational effectiveness, accelerate adoption of new ways of working, and deliver measurable business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

  • Define and lead GDO's workforce capability, competency, and learning strategy aligned to business priorities and future organizational needs.
  • Develop scalable competency frameworks and multi-year capability roadmaps to support workforce planning, career development, and organizational effectiveness.
  • Oversee learning strategy, governance, and demand management, partnering with HR, R&D Learning, Quality, and external providers to deliver impactful development solutions.
  • Lead GDO's onboarding and workforce readiness strategy, driving consistent, role-based experiences and continuous improvement of learning operations.
  • Partner across business functions to strengthen knowledge management, capability development, and adoption of new technologies, including AI and digital transformation.
  • Use workforce and learning analytics to identify capability gaps, measure impact, and inform strategic workforce investment decisions.
  • Build and lead a high-performing team, fostering innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement across workforce capability and learning.

WIN

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. What we seek in you as an experienced  professional, are these qualifications and skills:

  • Degree educated.
  • Experience in workforce capability, organizational learning, talent development, organizational effectiveness, or related disciplines within global organizations.
  • Proven success developing enterprise capability frameworks, skills strategies, and workforce development initiatives aligned with business objectives.
  • Experience building and scaling workforce capability, learning, or organizational effectiveness functions, including governance and operating models.
  • Strong understanding of future workforce trends, skills-based organizations, digital learning, AI, and workforce analytics.
  • Ability to anticipate future capability needs and translate business strategy into workforce development plans.
  • Strong track record influencing senior leaders and collaborating across HR, learning, quality, compliance, and business functions in complex matrix organizations.
  • Strategic, innovative, and experienced in designing new organizational frameworks and capabilities.
  • Excellent executive presence, communication, consulting, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.

THRIVE

What you can expect of us

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

  • Clear and disciplined strategic vision for the future that leverages superior-quality products, operational excellence and top-shelf-talent
  • Diverse and inclusive community of belonging, where teammates are empowered to bring ideas to the table and act
  • Generous Total Rewards Plan comprising health, finance and wealth, work/life balance, and career benefits

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for a career that defies imagination

What we do is hard. It should be. We are working with each other against the challenges of today for the promise of tomorrow. Lead the way.

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