Senior Director - Engineering Center of Excellence

Senior Director, Engineering Center of Excellence Lead

Career Category

Information Systems

Job Description

Role Description: 
The Senior Director, Engineering – India serves as the senior engineering leader for Amgen India (AIN) and a key member of the Global Engineering leadership network. Reporting to Global Engineering with a dotted-line to Amgen India site leadership, this role is accountable not only for standing up future-state engineering capabilities aligned with Amgen’s Technology and Workforce Strategy (TWFS), but also for overseeing, integrating, and sustaining those capabilities post-implementation. 

This role provides enduring value beyond initial capability activation by ensuring integrated, high-performing, and inspection-ready engineering services that are fully embedded into global engineering operating models. The Senior Director acts as the primary integration point between India-based engineering capabilities and Global Engineering, ensuring alignment to enterprise standards, seamless global delivery, and continuous optimization over time. 

Roles & Responsibilities: 

• Strategic Leadership, Integration & Capability Ownership 

• End-to-end ownership of TWFS engineering capabilities from stand-up through steady-state operations 

• Serve as the integration point between India engineering and Global Engineering 

• Translate TWFS ambition into durable operating models and governance 

• Execution, Governance & Value Delivery 

• Oversee capability performance post go-live 

• Establish governance linking Global Engineering and India site leadership 

• Own KPIs for safety, quality, compliance, cost, and productivity 

• Safety, Quality & Compliance 

• Full accountability for cGMP, EHS, and inspection readiness 

• Partner with Quality and EHS to proactively manage risk 

• Talent & Culture 

• Build and sustain a high-performing engineering organization 

• Develop future leaders and foster continuous learning 

• Partner & Stakeholder Management 

• Partner with Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, EHS, Digital, and Business Services 

• Ensure alignment across Operations and Global Engineering 

Functional Skills: 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience in leading large-scale transformations 

• Knowledgeable in local market talent across Capital Projects, Facilities, and Environmental Health & Safety 

• Well integrated into external stakeholder landscape and local community 

• Extensive experience working across diverse global teams including but not limited to Capital Projects, Global Facilities Management, and Environmental Health & Safety 

Good-to-Have Skills: 

Experience working in a matrixed organization 

Basic Qualifications and Experience:

• Doctorate degree / Master’s degree with 22+yrs of Industrial experience.

• 4 years of managerial experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs or directing the allocation of resources.    

Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider you without regard to your race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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Experience Level

Senior Level