Sr. Director Environment, Health and Safety

Career Category

Corporate Services

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 Director, Global Safety & Risk Programs

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world! The Senior Director, Global Safety & Risk Programs is a strategic enterprise leader responsible for defining and executing Amgen's global safety and operational risk strategy. This role leads the transformation, governance, and continuous evolution of enterprise safety programs to enable sustainable business growth, operational excellence, innovation, and organizational resilience.

Reporting to the Head of Global Environment, Health & Safety (EHS), this leader partners across Operations, Global Engineering, Research & Development, Product Stewardship, Corporate Functions, Security, and Digital Technology & Innovation to modernize safety management systems, accelerate digital transformation, and integrate risk management into business decision-making.

This role will champion innovation, leverage emerging technologies and AI-enabled insights, strengthen enterprise capabilities, and build an integrated safety culture that enables Amgen to deliver with greater speed, agility, and confidence.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Strategy & Transformation

Develop and execute Amgen's enterprise Safety & Risk strategy aligned with corporate priorities and long-term business objectives.

Lead the transformation and modernization of global safety programs to improve organizational effectiveness and operational performance.

Establish a multi-year roadmap to evolve enterprise safety capabilities, governance, and risk management practices.

Benchmark leading biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and high-reliability organizations to continuously improve enterprise capabilities.

Foster a culture of innovation, agility, and continuous improvement across the global EHS organization.

Innovation & Digital Enablement

Drive innovation by integrating AI, predictive analytics, automation, and digital technologies into enterprise safety programs.

Develop advanced dashboards and leading indicators that enable proactive risk management and executive decision-making.

Champion digital transformation initiatives that simplify processes, improve user experience, and increase organizational efficiency.

Evaluate emerging technologies to strengthen workforce protection and operational resilience.

Global Safety & Critical Risk Programs

Provide enterprise leadership and governance for:

Occupational Safety

Critical Risk Management

Serious Injury & Fatality (SIF) Prevention

Contractor Safety Excellence

Human & Organizational Performance (HOP)

Control of Work

Electrical Safety

Machine Safety

Confined Space

Lockout/Tagout

Working at Heights

Ergonomics

Powered Industrial Vehicles

Line-of-Fire Prevention

Learning Teams & Operational Learning

Ensure programs remain scalable, standardized, and adaptable to evolving business needs.

Enterprise Risk Management

Advance enterprise risk management capabilities through data-driven decision-making and systems thinking.

Establish governance for identifying, assessing, and mitigating operational risks across the enterprise.

Integrate risk management into capital projects, engineering design, manufacturing operations, R&D, and business planning.

Develop enterprise risk intelligence and predictive capabilities that improve organizational resilience.

Operational Excellence & Organizational Effectiveness

Lead initiatives that simplify processes, eliminate unnecessary complexity, and improve execution across the enterprise.

Drive integration between safety, engineering, quality, operations, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Ensure safety programs enable productivity, innovation, and operational performance rather than acting as standalone compliance activities.

Promote systems thinking and cross-functional collaboration to improve end-to-end business performance.

Culture, Leadership & Change Management

Lead enterprise change management efforts that strengthen safety culture and organizational performance.

Build leadership capability in Human & Organizational Performance (HOP), learning culture, and risk-based decision-making.

Partner with senior leaders to embed safety into business transformation initiatives.

Foster psychological safety, frontline engagement, accountability, and continuous learning.

Governance, Assurance & Compliance

Establish enterprise governance frameworks that ensure consistency, transparency, and accountability.

Monitor program effectiveness through KPIs, leading indicators, and executive dashboards.

Lead enterprise audits, assessments, and management reviews.

Ensure compliance while advancing innovative approaches that improve business value.

Talent & Organizational Capability

Build and develop a high-performing global organization capable of supporting future business needs.

Coach and mentor emerging leaders.

Develop critical technical capabilities and succession plans.

Foster an inclusive, collaborative, and innovation-driven culture.

The successful leader will:

Lead the transformation of Amgen's global safety and risk programs to meet future business needs.

Accelerate digital innovation and AI adoption across EHS.

Improve enterprise risk visibility, predictive capabilities, and decision-making.

Strengthen organizational resilience and critical risk management.

Enable safer, faster, and more efficient business execution.

Increase cross-functional integration and operational effectiveness.

Build a high-performing organization that continuously innovates and adapts.

Position Global EHS as a strategic business partner that enables growth, operational excellence, and long-term enterprise success.

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional individual we seek is a leader with these qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree and 5 years of leading transformation safety and risk experience OR

Master’s degree and 9 years of leading transformation safety and risk experience OR

Bachelor’s degree and 11 years of leading transformation safety and risk experience AND

In addition to meeting at least one of the above requirements, you must have at least 5 years’ experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs, or directing the allocation of resources. Your managerial experience may run concurrently with the required technical experience referenced above

Preferred Qualifications:

Demonstrated success leading enterprise transformation initiatives within biotechnology, pharmaceutical manufacturing, engineering, or similarly regulated industries like oil and gas.

Proven experience dri