Associate Director of Learning and Development

Associate Director of Learning and Development

Ready to push the limits of what's possible? Join Sanofi in one of our corporate functions, and you can play a vital part in the performance of our entire business while helping to make an impact on millions around the world.

The Sanofi Associate Director of Learning and Development reports to the Sanofi Director of Commercial Training - Foundations and Emerging Therapies. This position is based in Cambridge, MA, and requires in-office presence a minimum of three days per week in line with Sanofi policy.

The Associate Director will be responsible for supporting the learning needs of the commercial sales force within our rare disease business unit. Specifically, there are several upcoming new product launches within the rare disease space that complement our existing rare disease portfolio. This role requires developing launch training materials and maintaining or creating various training resources for our legacy rare disease brands. This role will also be responsible for supporting the implementation of new products and skill-based training via eLearning, live meetings, virtual training, and on-demand training courses.

As a learning strategic partner, this candidate will develop learning materials, training materials, and resources to support the Rare Disease Business Unit, including disease, product, and customer interaction capabilities training, as well as other training courses for the Business Unit.

We're an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people's lives and delivering compelling growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system, combined with our innovative pipeline, enables us to develop medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people worldwide. Together, we chase the miracles of science to improve people's lives.

Main Responsibilities :

• This person must be able to effectively leverage Sanofi talent and resources within a developing matrixed learning and development operational team to support the business unit's needs, in addition to utilizing external resource partners to achieve development efforts.
• Responsible for the development of classroom training programs, including customer interaction capabilities, as well as disease and product education via live training experiences, e-learning modules, Zoom, etc.
• Manage the Product Review Board process for all sales training materials to incorporate all appropriate regulatory and legal compliance programs into the appropriate training programs.
• Responsible for the development of field-based training programs, including field mentorships, coaching, and field assessment.
• Establish and implement key metrics to track and communicate level of value and impact of sales training and development initiatives to all stakeholders.
• Work closely with Sales and Marketing to ensure appropriate integration of sales and marketing materials into all new hire and ongoing learning training programs.
• Manage, design, and deliver sales training materials for National Sales Meetings and Area / Zone and Regional Sales Meetings, in close coordination with Marketing, Field Advisory Teams / Learning Champions.
• Develop and effectively manage internal L&D operational relationships as well as key agency partnerships.
• Design and attend certification training for relevant training programs and vendors.
• Data & Analytics understanding with the ability to take action & plan.
• Provide a high level of strategic analysis and planning with the ability to work with and manage demands and expectations from multiple internal customers.
• Support in the development and execution of strategic and tactical plans to support the short and long-term objectives of the Sales, Marketing Teams, as well as collaborative efforts with our PSS and medical teams where needed and appropriate.

This includes responsibility for the implementation and continuous improvement of the following work streams :

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