About This Role
This role is for a strategic employee communications partner who will help leaders of Corporate Functions teams translate their priorities, initiatives, and employee experience commitments into communications for their teams. At Amgen, Workplace Communications represents Human Resources (HR) and the enterprise-enabling expertise that supports the people who make and deliver medicines. Working across functions and regions, this manager will lead the development of communications, advise functional leaders and program teams, and develop audience-centered content that builds employee understanding, business confidence, and change adoption.
Responsibilities
- Develop and deliver internal communications plans and strategies consistent with Amgen's global, functional, and local communications strategies and aligned with strategic objectives
- Write, edit, and oversee high-quality communications, including leader messages, talking points, intranet content, toolkits, FAQs, and presentation materials
- Partner with Corporate Affairs and functional communicators to align messages, milestones, audiences, channels, and leader actions across the enterprise
- Turn complex business and functional information into concise, employee-centered narratives that explain what is changing, why it matters, and what people need to do
- Manage communications projects and deliverables from intake through delivery, including timeline development, approvals, risk identification and assessment, and implementation/publication
- Proactively identify ongoing communications opportunities and capitalize on existing moments or milestones to further impact strategic communications activities and drive business outcomes
- Make recommendations to improve enterprise communication tactics and internal channel effectiveness across email, intranet, community platforms, presentations, and similar
- Maintain a consistent enterprise voice, clear editorial grammar and style standards, and appropriate coordination with Legal, Compliance, HR, and other review partners
- Build and sustain cooperative relationships with team members across Law, Finance, Human Resources (HR) including Wellness and People, Culture and Engagement (PCE), Digital Technology Innovation (DTI), Corporate Affairs, Business Development, World Compliance Business Ethics (WCBE), and the Results Delivery Office (RDO)
- Find opportunities to create collaboration, particularly between HR and other stakeholders
- Lead assigned communications workstreams, including planning, tracking, stakeholder coordination, and delivery
- Partner with Corporate Functions teams to develop timelines, workback plans, presentation content, and speaker talking points for All Staff meetings
- Work with internal and external stakeholders (including consulting agency teams) to ensure timely and accurate communication
