Human Resources Manager, Strategic HR Business Partner

About the role

Amgen Ohio is building a world-class manufacturing organization and is seeking a strategic Human Resources Manager acting as an HR Business Partner. This is not a traditional HR operations role: the successful candidate is a business-minded HR leader who advises site and functional leaders, shapes organizational strategy, builds leadership capability and drives workforce effectiveness. The role is an individual contributor position.

Key responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted advisor to leaders on organizational, talent and workforce matters, aligning people strategies with business objectives and influencing leadership thinking.
• Support performance management and talent review processes to ensure leadership continuity.
• Drive organizational design and optimization, workforce planning and staffing strategies, including identifying capability gaps and building internal and external talent pipelines.
• Guide leaders through organizational change, drive adoption of new processes and structures, and strengthen team effectiveness, accountability and culture.
• Develop and execute talent strategies with HR Centers of Excellence and business leaders, and implement global HR development programs.
• Support apprenticeship and workforce development programs, and build engagement, innovation and diversity, inclusion and belonging.
• Analyze workforce and talent metrics, give data-driven recommendations, and build tools with the HR Site Head to improve HR efficiency.

Required profile

• Basic qualification: doctorate; or master's degree with 2 years of HR Business Partner experience; or bachelor's degree with 4 years; or associate's degree with 8 years; or high school diploma / GED with 10 years of Business Partner experience.
• Preferred: 8+ years of progressive HR Business Partner experience in complex organizations, experience supporting senior leaders, and proven success in organizational design, workforce planning and change management.
• Experience in manufacturing, operations, life sciences, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, chemical or highly regulated environments, and ability to influence without direct authority.

Required skills

• Strong consulting, coaching and stakeholder management skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Teams and reporting tools.

What we offer

• A competitive annual salary range, with actual pay depending on skills, experience and qualifications.
• Total rewards including health, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, flexible spending accounts, a retirement and savings plan with company contributions, and a discretionary annual bonus or sales-based incentive plan.
• Stock-based long-term incentives, time-off plans and flexible work models where possible.