Remote Senior Director of Commercial Training

Summary

Join our team as a Senior Director of Commercial Training at Scholar Rock, where you will lead the creation and implementation of curriculums for disease and product education, enhancing engagement competencies to ensure effective business execution that drives results while enabling employees to grow and thrive.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, science or related field
• A master’s degree (MBA) strongly preferred
• 10+ years of experience working in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry with 8+ years in sales/commercial training
• Experience leading 'development' initiatives, i.e., training, coaching, learning initiatives
• Firm understanding and applicability of adult learning theory framework
• Strong interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to drive toward consensus
• Exceptional persuasive written and verbal communication skills. Willingness to present the facts and put forth hypothesis in the face of differing opinions
• Excellent presentation skills with the ability to establish logical flow and story and skilled in choosing best graphic representation for points to be made
• Experienced presenting to senior management
• Ability to adjust to changing needs within the organization and flexibility to change priorities as needed
• Ability to self direct projects and work with little supervision
• Demonstrated values-based skills and strong work ethic
• Pharmaceutical launch experience with an emphasis of building infrastructure and processes that do not currently exist

Responsibilities

• Oversee development of training plan that addresses learning and business objectives and enhances skills and knowledge of SMA and apitegromab
• Lead the definition and implementation of the most effective learning mix (i.e., live/virtual instructor-led, e-learning, blended learning, social learning) for the agreed target audience with best practices and principles of instructional design
• Accountable and responsible for all curricula components and inventory requiring promotional review and approval by legal/regulatory/compliance
• Lead the creation and standardization of Launch Excellence models from early planning to post-launch sustainment
• Ensure learning and development solutions are developed and deployed with an eye on adult learning theory and knowledge retention/recall
• Oversee the development and facilitation of engaging and interactive workshops on disease states, products, marketplaces, and contextual selling skills for all types of audiences
• Train and coach leaders for key conversations that drive team performance, enabling high confidence in the performance of team members
• Coach leaders to ensure that employees receive balanced and actionable feedback
• Partner with executive leaders to provide the strategic guidance aligning people programs to business outcomes and ensuring high employee engagement
• Lead, evaluation and monitor training programs to ensure success and follow up to ensure training objectives are met
• Ensure the appropriate utilization of resources by overseeing the identification and selection of vendors as well as existing relationships and projects relating to training
• Lead end-to-end training efforts that deliver the measurable results aligned with project goals
• Design and implement practices that enable continuous improvement of a high-performance culture