Senior Manager, Instructional Design and Labeling Operations

Career Category

Engineering

Job Description

Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients

At Amgen, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do.

Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas –Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease– we reach millions of patients each year. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline of medicines to treat cancer, heart disease, inflammatory conditions, rare diseases, and obesity and obesity-related conditions. As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives.

Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

Senior Manager, Instructional Design and Labeling Operations

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. The Senior Manager, Instructional Design and Labeling Operations will lead the Instructional Design team within Customer Experience and Design, supporting the development, lifecycle management, review, and operational execution of Instructions for Use (IFUs), Native Artwork Files (NAFs), and related instructional artwork deliverables for combination products and other regulated medical products.

This role is first and foremost a people leadership and operational excellence role. The Senior Manager will lead a mixed team of Amgen employees and external workers, build team capability, strengthen career development, manage capacity and priorities, and mature the Instructional Design and Labeling Operations function. The role will also own the process governance, implementation, adherence, and continuous improvement of SOP-437076, ensuring that Instructional Design workflows are clear, scalable, compliant, and effectively integrated into cross-functional product development and submission activities.

The successful candidate does not need to be a formal instructional designer. However, they must bring strong people leadership, process ownership, stakeholder management, and regulated medical product experience, with the ability to lead teams working across labeling, artwork, Human Factors study support, source text alignment, documentation, review cycles, vendor coordination, and Health Authority submission readiness.

This leader will partner closely with Human Factors, Regulatory Labeling, Packaging Engineering, Artwork Center, Systems Engineering, Final Product Teams, Quality, vendors, and other cross-functional stakeholders to ensure deliverables are completed with quality, traceability, usability, compliance, and business impact.

Key Responsibilities:

People Leadership and Team Development

Lead, coach, and develop a team of Instructional Design Engineers

Serve as a career development champion by clarifying role expectations, supporting development plans, creating growth opportunities, and helping team members build differentiated career paths.

Build a high-performing team culture grounded in accountability, collaboration, learning, quality, operational discipline, and customer focus.

Manage team priorities, workload, capacity, onboarding, performance, development, and resource allocation.

Provide effective oversight of external workers and/or contractors, including onboarding, work assignment, deliverable expectations, execution quality, and integration into team workflows.

Help the team navigate ambiguity, competing priorities, cross-functional dependencies, and escalation needs.

Functional Leadership and Operating Model

Lead the Instructional Design and Labeling Operations function within Customer Experience and Design.

Translate portfolio needs, Human Factors milestones, labeling deliverables, study timelines, submission needs, and business priorities into executable team plans.

Establish mechanisms to monitor workload, workflow health, quality trends, cycle times, risks, rework drivers, and delivery commitments.

Strengthen the operating model for Instructional Design and Labeling Operations, including role clarity, decision rights, intake, prioritization, escalation, metrics, and cross-functional handoffs.

Ensure the team’s work supports broader Customer Experience objectives, including improved patient learning materials, usability, complaint reduction, and customer experience outcomes.

SOP Ownership and Process Improvement

Lead process improvement efforts across the IFU / NAF lifecycle, including NAF strategy, creation, revision, review cycles, Human Factors study support, source text alignment, submission support, vendor coordination, and launch readiness activities.

Develop, maintain, and improve supporting tools such as templates, checklists, standards, process maps, training materials, metrics, and review expectations.

Identify and resolve process gaps, handoff inefficiencies, documentation risks, role clarity issues, recurring workflow pain points, and compliance vulnerabilities.

Champion scalable and compliant ways of working that improve predictability, audit readiness, quality, speed of execution, and team sustainability.

Instructional Design, Labeling Operations, and Regulated Artwork Oversight

Provide leadership oversight for development and revision of IFUs, instructional artwork, illustrations, NAFs, study stimuli, and related deliverables used to support development activities, Human Factors studies, Health Authority interactions, and product commercialization.

Ensure Instructional Design deliverables are developed and maintained with appropriate attention to user needs, usability principles, labeling requirements, regulatory expectations, documentation traceability, and quality standards.

Oversee activities related to NAF strategy, artwork creation, review cycles, source text alignment, print readiness, study stimuli preparation, vendor coordination, and submission readiness.

Ensure appropriate quality checks, review discipline, documentation, and inspection practices are in place before deliverables progress to formal review, study use, or submission.

Support issue resolution and decision-making when design, usability, labeling, regulatory, packaging, artwork, quality, or operational considerations conflict.

Cross-Functional Collaboration and Vendor Management

Build strong partnerships with Human Factors, Regulatory Labeling, Packaging Engineering, Artwork Center, Systems Engineering, Quality, Final Product Teams, vendors, and other partners.

Represent Instructional Design and Labeling Operations in portfolio, program, governance, and process discussions where team commitments, risks, vendor performance, or functional strategy are impacted.

Communicate priorities, risks, decisions, and tradeoffs clearly to senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders.

Influence across matrix teams to drive alignment, remove barriers, and maintain momentum.

Manage vendor and contractor relationships to support execution, capacity, quality, specialized capability, print readiness, study support, and process reliability.

Ensure vendors and external partners understand applicable expectations, timelines, deliverable standards, documentation needs, and escalation pathways.

Quality, Compliance and Inspection Readiness

Ensure Instructional Design and Labeling Operations activities are performed and documented in accordance with applicable procedures, standards, and regulatory expectations.

Promote strong documentation practices, including traceability of inputs, decisions, reviews, revisions, approva