Global Oncology Associate Director, Lung Sales Training
AstraZeneca

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At AstraZeneca we embrace the varied opportunities, in a globally connected team, to work on intellectually stimulating challenges and gain transferable skills. We're invested in supporting your development with access to great tools, smart people to learn from, and the opportunity to experience multiple careers. And you'll be rewarded for your progression and contribution to the business.

The Associate Director, Global Oncology Training, Lung Cancer is responsible for the oversight, strategic direction, and leadership of the curriculum and assets to support Global market needs in the lung cancer space (EGFR and IO). The incumbent will collaborate closely with his/her counterparts across each Oncology Training and Development (OTD) function to ensure an alignment of business operations within the global space of each therapeutic area. The Associate Director is expected to develop a consistent service delivery level to the brand that is evident in all learning and development assets created. The incumbent will work with sales, marketing, clinical, and other cross-functional leaders to create training and development strategies and ensures alignment with business unit priorities to program objectives.

This position is based on-site at our Gaithersburg, MD/ Metro Washington DC campus, headquarters for the US Oncology and the Oncology Business Unit. The Gaithersburg site offers various amenities to help boost efficiency and help keep our employees happy and healthy. This includes a fitness center, employee healthcare clinic, electric vehicle charging stations, dry cleaning, a full-service cafeteria, state-of-the-art on-campus Daycare facility, and copy center. This is where you'll find newly-designed, activity-based workspaces to suit a variety of working styles while strengthening collaboration between teams.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Works directly with internal global stakeholders, including training managers, Global brand leads and US leads to understanding the current and future learning needs of the business
• Establishes strong cross-functional relationships across the product, marketing, and existing internal training teams to develop a scalable global training program that meets launch and life cycle management goals of key global customers
• Leads the identification, deployment, and promotion of the most effective and innovative practices across the department and globe; including launches
• Leads teams to evaluate program metrics as a means of determining training impact in areas for growth and success
• Supports team members to achieve a customer-focused and performance-driven culture that supports Innovation, simplification, measurement, and excellence in learning development and delivery
• Identifies best practices in early markets and cultivates an environment of best practice sharing for the benefit of later launch markets
• Creates synergies across the teams to create cost savings collaboration and to avoid duplication of efforts

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent
• Minimum of 5 years of a blend of pharmaceutical/biotech/oncology experience
• Minimum of 3 years of Oncology experience
• Minimum of 3 years of a blend of pharmaceutical sales, sales management, and/or training experience
• Demonstrated ability to effectively and concisely communicate (verbally and in writing) with members of the global commercial organization(s) where English is not first language
• Demonstrated ability to interface professionally with senior members of the global commercial organization
• Demonstrated competency in working with/collaborating with medical learning & development and science liaison teams
• Ability to understand brand strategy and related strategic imperatives and develop learning that clearly conveys and pulls-through that strategy at the field level
• Ability to effectively lead in a cross-functional and virtual team environment, providing direction and guidance to team members with varied and complementary responsibilities

Preferred Requirements:

• Advanced degree in medical, pharmaceutical, or life sciences or a related field or equivalent
• Knowledge of instructional systems design preferred
• Experience working with/in global (ex-US) markets

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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.

AstraZeneca requires all US employees to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 but will consider requests for reasonable accommodations as required by applicable law.

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