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HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?

The Amgen Capability Center in Lisbon, Portugal (ACCP) will be home to over 300 multi-national and multi-cultural employees, representing a broad range of cross functional capabilities, including Commercial, General and Administrative, Research and Development and more. The ACCP will offer rich career growth and development opportunities, regional and global exposure and the opportunity to LIVE, WIN and THRIVE in one of Europe’s most attractive cities.

The ACCP will be temporarily located at the Maleo – Saldanha, Av. da República 18, 1050-191 Lisbon. We’re already gearing up to have our brand-new permanent office ready in the vibrant city center of Lisbon by the spring of 2022.

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 read over 10 million patients worldwide. It’s time for a career you can be proud of. Join us.

Talent Acquisition Lead

LIVE

What you will do

The Talent Acquisition Lead will manage the ACCP Talent Acquisition service, ensuring that Amgen hires the best talent through an impactful, efficient and cost effective process. You will lead a team in devising creative candidate identification, attraction, pipelining and selection strategies to support the growth agenda of the ACCP. Your profound knowledge of core Talent Acquisition processes, practices and trends, combined with strong data savvy and consulting skills, will assist you in designing fit for purpose solutions for various affiliates within the region. Ultimately, you will ensure that the ACCP Talent Acquisition team consistently delivers a high-quality experience for candidates, managers and partners.

Your scope of responsibilities will also include:

• Partnering with leaders and HRBPs on defining and executing hiring plans.
• Working with local HRBPs, Talent Management and clients to assess talent gaps and future talent needs, define, execute and track appropriate plans of action.
• Measuring recruitment performance via regular review of TA performance metrics, consultation with clients and stakeholders in order to ensure the TA service is fit for purpose and to explore opportunities for improvement.
• Partnering with your team to develop compelling Employer Branding and Recruitment Marketing strategies to help Amgen effectively attract the best talent
• Ensuring Talent Acquisition plays an integral role in building diverse and inclusive teams
• Supporting the development of hiring managers’ interview and selection capabilities
• Managing the performance and development of your team.

WIN

What we expect of you

You are a learning agile, strategic thinker with proven leadership, stakeholder and relationship management abilities. Your strong customer focus, consultation skills, problem solving abilities and result oriented mindset enable you and your team to deliver results and ensure customer satisfaction. You are highly organized and able to help your team to prioritize effectively in order to maximize effectiveness in a fast paced environment. Your data savvy helps you to ensure the delivery of impactful TA services and to identify areas of opportunity for improvement. Your proven people leadership experience assists you in building and developing the best team. 

These additional experience will help to position you for success:

• Demonstrable track record leading Talent Acquisition for a site or function
• Shown success in effectively managing various relationships in a complex matrix environment
• Proven people management experience
• Highly organized through handling multiple day to day tasks in a fast paced environment
• Ability to use market intelligence and other data sources to help define effective sourcing strategies
• Fluency in English is a requirement. Professional proficiency in the following languages will be favorably viewed: German, French, Spanish, and Italian
• University Degree

Preferred Requirements:

• Broader HR experience in Generalist of COE roles e.g. HRBP or Talent Management
• Previous experience working in the pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry would be ideal

THRIVE

What you can expect of us

• Vast opportunities to learn, develop, and move up and across our global organisation.
• 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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for a career that defies imagination

In our quest to serve patients above all else, Amgen is the first to imagine, and the last to doubt. Join us.

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EQUAL OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT

Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider you without regard to your race, colour, 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 essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation.