Associate Director, Commercial Learning

Summary

Join our team as a Learning Lead for Rare Diseases and apply your learning expertise to develop and deploy a learning strategy that drives performance and measurable business outcomes of field commercial teams.

Requirements

• 3 - 5 years training experience in industry
• 7-10 years selling/commercial experience in industry with demonstrated success
• Strong executive presence and presentation skills to interact appropriately with all levels of the organization
• Proven experience fostering teamwork and collaboration, promotes teamwork within and across groups
• Demonstrated ability to influence others and accomplish goals within a matrixed environment
• Results oriented with excellent decision-making skills
• Ability to build short and long-term learning strategies that align to business imperatives
• Strong prioritization skills and ability to manage multiple projects to successful completion
• Strategically plan and manage the learning budget to successful achieve all goals and objectives on time and within budget
• Collaboration with Marketing, Sales Leadership, Legal, Regulatory and Compliance to ensure alignment on strategy, plans and content
• Bachelor’s degree required

Responsibilities

• Develop the short and long-term learning strategy, tactical plan, and resource model to effectively support the onboarding, knowledge/skill development, deployment and ongoing training of the projected field force teams
• Cultivate deep business knowledge and partnerships to inform the development of the learning strategy in support of near and long team needs of NMD field teams
• Design, develop, and implement cohesive, scalable and sustained learning programs which increase the skills, knowledge and performance of field commercial teams
• Partner across all of Commercial learning franchises to ensure effective manager training, leadership, and development strategies and timelines to achieve departmental goals and objectives
• Ensures ongoing training and development meets current field needs and is delivered effectively using adult learning principles, instructional design principles, and by conducting needs analysis to create critical programs
• Assess learning needs and devise flexible, scalable solutions to create demonstrable business impact. Measure and report results and adapt as necessary
• Partner with subject matter experts and resources, both internally and externally, to implement and deploy learning solutions
• Manages a team of 1 Senior Training Manager and may have other colleagues in flex assignments
• Provide administrative oversight, manage budgets and timelines and ensure adherence to all relevant policies and SOPs

Preferred Qualifications

• Launch experience preferred
• Adult learning experience preferred