September 13, 2024

AstraZeneca

Wilmington

FULL TIME

Associate Director, Commercial Learning CVRM, Wilmington, DE

At Astra Zeneca, we turn ideas into life-changing medicines. Our workplace encourages a focus on achieving outcomes, dreaming big, and collaborating to turn the seemingly impossible into achievable goals. We're passionate about the potential of science to address the unmet needs of patients around the world.

US BBU Commercial Learning, a function of the Innovation and Business Excellence (IBEX) team, is dedicated to developing and delivering innovative, accessible and tailored learning solutions to empower individuals and teams to drive growth and elevate capability as the US BBU leads the way in advancing healthcare solutions for patients. Our enterprise learning team owns the lifecycle of training for our US BBU commercial field roles from onboarding to ongoing commercial capability development, from bespoke team interventions to enterprise academies.

What you'll do:
The role of Commercial Learning (CLx) Associate Director involves collaborating with our specialized disease state partners in brand, sales leadership, market access, and medical affairs. You will serve as the main point of contact for the Commercial Learning team. As part of your responsibilities, you will be tasked with building learning content, collaborating with colleagues, and collaborating closely with brand and sales leaders to craft exceptional learning experiences. You will develop National Sales Trainers and also deliver learning experiences to new hires in their onboarding phase. You will oversee learning design and delivery, and deliver ongoing learning solutions to sales teams. Your role will be pivotal in translating brand strategy into field execution through engaging learning experiences.

Essential Skills/Experience:

Bachelor’s Degree in science or related healthcare field
Minimum 2 years in pharmaceutical sales or healthcare
7+ years total relevant experience
Demonstrated leadership in building a culture of lifelong learning
Experience in learning & development, curriculum design, and delivery
Growth mindset, agility in a changing environment, and passion for lifelong learning
Ability to effectively present and communicate ideas in large, diverse groups and one-on-one
Excellent writing, editing, organizational, and communication skills
Patient-centric mindset and dedication to keeping the patient at the center of all you do

Desirable Skills/Experience:

CVRM and/or highly specialized disease state experience strongly preferred
Institution/account-based selling experience strongly preferred
Strong market access acumen and/or specialty pharmacy experience preferred
Experience leading and developing others
Experience in product launches
Project management expertise to set and manage goals, priorities, resources, and initiatives
Marketing or Operations experience
Business acumen related to the dynamic healthcare marketplace

At Astra Zeneca, we are on a journey to bring life-saving medicines to patients. Our role in contributing to decreasing mortality rates globally is clear. We are shaping the future by spotting scientifically-led commercial opportunities and acting now to operationalize and scale them. We are driven by the solutions we bring to the healthcare ecosystem. It powers us to make an impact at every step of the patient journey. We are constantly thinking big to answer new challenges. We push ourselves to start small and scale fast. The pioneers of digital and innovative solutions that have never been seen before.

Are you ready to be part of this journey? To shape the future? To define what the next decade looks like for Bio Pharmaceuticals and act on it now? Join us at Astra Zeneca, where we are actively contributing to bending the global mortality curve. Apply today!