Senior Associate Project Management

Career Category

Business Development

Job Description

Join our team at AMGEN Capability Center Portugal, the #1 company in Best Workplaces™ (201–500 employees' category) in Portugal in 2024 by the Great Place to Work Institute. With over 500 talented individuals from more than 40 nationalities, our Lisbon center thrives at the intersection of innovation, excellence, and inspiration. This is your opportunity to explore the future of healthcare through technology and digital innovation, supporting our mission To Serve

SENIOR ASSOCIATE PROJECT MANAGEMENT

At AMGEN, Technology isn’t just a support function—it’s a catalyst for discovery, transformation, and real-world impact. Here, your ideas fuel innovation that improves and saves lives of patients in dire need of our medicines. Are you ready to do meaningful work that matters? 

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WHAT YOU WILL DO

As an Senior Associate Project Management, you will be based at AMGEN's Capability Center in Lisbon Portugal, leading technical and audit related projects as part of the Cybersecurity & Digital Trust (CDT) team.  You will be accountable for developing and reporting periodic project and financial indicators relating to project objectives, risks, costs and trends. You will apply both Agile and standard project management methodologies in the development, initiation, planning, execution, control and closing of projects. 

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will:

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Manage all aspects of projects, including scope management, schedule management, resource management, financial management, and risk and issue management.

• Work effectively under minimal supervision and prioritize the successful completion of team goals.

• Partner with technical leads to identify key work products, ensure cross-functional alignment, and execute plans to meet project goals.

• Develop innovative ways to introduce change across a diverse organization.

• Communicate effectively and possess strong critical thinking, problem-solving, analytical, and presentation skills.

• Manage competing timelines and prioritize critical tasks.

• Champion collaboration and work effectively on cross-functional teams.

• Remove roadblocks and impediments to team progress

• Foster an environment where the team can stay focused

• Educate the team about Lean and Agile practices like Scrum

• Track team metrics and find ways to improve team performance

• Guide the team towards becoming a high-performing and self-managing unit

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WHAT WE EXPECT OF YOU

Must-Have Skills:

• Project management experience leading all aspects of projects - scope management, schedule management, resource management, financial management, and risk and issue management and using a diverse set of methodologies (Agile, Scrum, DevOps)

• Highly motivated, collaborative, works effectively under minimal supervision and places priority on the successful completion of team goals

• Works successfully in ambiguous scenarios, thinks holistically, collects, digests and assembles information to enable meaningful business analyses and decision-making

• Possesses learning, technical agility, and can breakdown topics/issues into actionable plans for team execution

Good-to-Have Skills:

• Jira experience

• Miro experience

• Workshop facilitation experience

Professional Certifications:

• Project Management Professional (PMP) – preferred

• Certified Project Manager - preferred

• Agile Certified Practitioner - preferred

Soft Skills:

• Excellent analytical and gap/fit assessment skills.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to work effectively with global, virtual teams

• High degree of initiative and self-motivation.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities successfully.

• Team-oriented, with a focus on achieving team goals

• Strong presentation and public speaking skills.

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WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT OF US

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EQUAL OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT

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.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation.

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