Remote Senior Manager

Summary

Join our Commercial Learning and Development team as a Senior Program Manager to develop and implement training for our customer-facing sales teams, focusing on devising a sales training strategy, building learning plans, developing content, and delivering a comprehensive training program.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field - science or adult learning preferred
• 3 years leading sales training (learning & development) within the life science, pharmaceutical, biotech, and/or oncology diagnostics industry
• 3 years experience in building training program infrastructure including content creation
• Excellent project management skills with the ability to manage complex projects with resources across multiple teams
• Multi-dimensional in abilities to work on simultaneous tasks, work cross-team and at different levels of the organization
• Experience in developing learning plans, content and assessment measures
• Flexible to changes in an ever changing dynamic environment
• Ability to work independently and with a sense of urgency to meet timelines
• Strong problem-solving skills, good attention to detail, time management skills and personal initiative
• Exceptional human relations skills to coordinate the accomplishment of tasks through other people
• Highly developed written skills, the ability to produce documents for dissemination both inside and outside the organization for presentations, technical briefs and scientific publications
• Outstanding oral presentation skills
• Ability to engage, inspire, and coach
• Intermediate-to-advanced knowledge of the following computer software programs: Google suites and/or Microsoft office, learning management systems, sales enablement platforms
• Ability to travel up to 50%

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and implementation of training plans for commercial teams to meet organizational goals and individual professional needs
• Plan, develop, coordinate and execute new-hire sales training, ongoing training modules, launch training, educational materials, application activities (live and virtual), and assessments
• Employ internal stakeholders to deliver instructional workshops and on demand training content
• Assist in translating national brand plans and tactics into development of message practice, and role play scenarios to support sales strategy
• Lead development and delivery of annual meeting “tracks” and individual sessions
• Provide learner feedback to sales management with recommendations for follow-up coaching

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree in related field - science or adult learning
• 5+ years leading sales training experience
• 3+ years of direct sales experience
• 5+ years of experience in one or more of the following areas: Life Science Sales or Oncology training and development