Global Medical Learning Partner

This is what you will do:

As an Associate Director, Global Learning Partner within Global Medical Affairs at Alexion, this role is instrumental in defining and executing learning strategies to support our rare disease focus. You will lead initiatives to develop our medical training framework, ensuring our teams are equipped to engage effectively with the medical community worldwide.

You will operate in a matrix, with projects and responsibilities directed by the Director of the TA group, whilst reporting to the Head of Global Medical Training and Field Capabilities, identify training needs and setting the learning and development strategy together. 

You will develop and deliver engaging training programs for a diverse global medical audience adopting ‘learning in the flow of work’ and will evaluate success via a metrics-based approach. Well-designed trainings will equip our external facing teams to deliver an impactful medical narrative to the medical community to achieve the bold ambition.

You will be responsible for:

• Performance consulting and planning: Collaborate with global medical and therapeutic area leaders to determine training needs and prioritize initiatives. Craft learning pathways that integrate scientific advancements and align with organizational goals.  Act as a strategic performance consultant to understand TA needs and determine whether training is the correct intervention, and if so, how it should be optimally delivered to ensure learning takes place.
• Training Program Leadership: Design and deliver scientific training initiatives, ensuring they are compelling and tailored to meet the diverse needs of medical teams. Have a strong understanding of the science so that challenging and relevant training interventions bring value to your audience, acting as an expert when required. Actively engage in the development and delivery of scientific training initiatives that are aligned to our medical strategy and local market needs.
• Execution and Management: Execute, deliver and oversee the deployment of training programs, manage resources effectively, and ensure programs meet high standards of quality and effectiveness.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Build and nurture partnerships with internal and external stakeholders, aligning training strategies with medical, clinical, and commercial objectives where necessary.
• Evaluation and Feedback: Establish evaluative frameworks to measure training impact, using data-driven insights to enhance future learning strategies.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Engage effectively with a wide range of stakeholders, ensuring alignment and responsiveness to training needs and opportunities. Ensuring Foundational training and onboarding is available to new hires in a format that is aligned to differentiated learning and supports a certification process. 
• Develop and maintain a knowledge/content management strategy to guarantee the effective onboarding of new staff and the continuous update and relevance of training assets.

• Therapeutic Area Expertise - Develop therapeutic area training curricula - to include disease state, patient journey, therapeutic landscape, and pre-clinical/clinical/real-world evidence data alongside relevant capabilities training to communicate scientific information effectively.
• Learning Experience Innovation: Leverage adult learning principles to deliver effective and meaningful learning experiences, alongside the design of novel training solutions to bolster learner engagement, interactivity using blended learning solutions.
• Training Content Development:
  • Liaise with external providers to produce innovative content and training solutions. Partner with internal content creators so that centralized material is developed in time and in a style that is appropriate for training purposes.
  • Select, apply and use various authoring tools to create innovative and interactive training content. Maintain up to date library of learning content.
• Communication Excellence: Communication with Global and Local collaborators and learners to ensure awareness of currently available and future educational content.

• Collaborate with the other TA Training Partners and Field Excellence to identify interactive ways to fulfil gaps and synergize solutions to best meet training needs across organization.
• Utilize technology and instructional design to create innovative forms of engaging learners to optimize the training experience and meet the goals of adaptive adult learning principles.

You will need to have:

• MD, PhD, PharmD or B.A./B.S. in scientific study with appropriate experience
• 5-7 years’ experience and proven track record in training and project management in the biopharmaceutical industry
• Experience in working within a matrixed organization to deliver strong results.
• Understanding of the multiple facets of clinical research, clinical development, medical affairs, market access and outcomes research
• Knowledge and understanding of clinical priorities for different healthcare professionals including physicians, nurses, pharmacist, researchers and research associates.
• Proven history in developing engaging trainings incorporating adult learning principles and re-fresher training follow up which maximize impact.
• Ability to develop strong, respectful, professional, collaborative and productive relationships with a spirit and ability to align around vision to drive positive results.
• Travel required where appropriate – e.g. pre congress trainings.

We would prefer for you to have:

• Tertiary scientific degree
• Experience in training instructional design and content management
• Medical affairs experience including field medical, clinical development and KOL management.
• Experience in global preparation and launch readiness.

AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.