Director, R&D Knowledge Management

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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.

Director, R&D Knowledge Management

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What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. R&D Strategy and Operations (RDSO) is focused on driving innovation beyond the molecule and applying digital strategies to simplify processes, improve success rates, accelerating pipeline progression, ultimately expediting the path to patient value and access. The Director of R&D Knowledge Management will be primarily responsible for evolving and managing R&D’s knowledge management capability that is comprised of equal parts digital enablement, advancing a culture that shares the things that matter, and deploying thoughtfully designed processes when needed to capture and surface knowledge, with a preference towards seamlessly integrating into the flow of work as a first priority.

The Director of Knowledge Management will lead a team of knowledge management professionals, who oversee the creation and delivery of knowledge products and services across R&D. This leader will drive a culture of knowledge sharing and discovery, while aligning with and influencing cross-functional efforts to develop and advance solutions with an enterprise mindset. This role will report into the Head of R&D Knowledge & Learning, and will be a peer to R&D learning & performance leaders and the lead for Amgen’s corporate library.

The Director of R&D Knowledge Management will lead their team to focus on understanding the needs of specific roles across R&D and as solutions are delivered, measure and articulate the value. They will work in close alignment with functional leaders, transformation leads, enterprise technology teams, and learning and development teams to collaboratively explore and co-create solutions, with a focus on enabling R&D strategic capabilities and progressing prioritized initiatives.

This leader will be a visionary in terms of how the field of knowledge management is evolving with the rapidly changing technology landscape and will effectively communicate the opportunities this presents to a diverse audience of leaders and staff across R&D to build support for and align efforts to maximize the value and scalability of solutions. They will …