Associate Director, Commercial Training and Development

Ascendis Pharma

  • Princeton, NJ
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 1 month ago
Job Description:Ascendis Pharma is a dynamic, fast-growing global biopharmaceutical company with locations in Denmark, Europe, and the United States. Today, we're advancing programs in Endocrinology, Rare Disease and Oncology.Here at Ascendis, we pride ourselves on exceptional science, visionary leadership, and skilled and passionate colleagues.Guided by our core values of Patients, Science, and Passion, we use our TransCon® drug development platform to fulfill our mission of developing new and potentially best-in-class therapies to address unmet medical needs.Our culture fosters a place where skilled, adaptable, and highly resourceful professionals can truly make their mark. We offer a dynamic workplace for employees to grow and develop their skills.We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Associate Director, Commercial Training and Development, to join the commercial training team. This individual will be responsible for creating and delivering training for the U.S. Commercial teams (Sales Reps, Account Managers, Field Reimbursement Managers at Ascendis as well as external partners. This individual will have a primary focus on the YORVIPATH/hypopara disease states but also support the Growth team as needed.Key Responsibilities:
  • Create and deliver training content including learning modules, trainings and workshops for both new hire training as well as ad-hoc training
  • Collaborate with commercial team leaders to identify skill gaps to determine training needs and develop a training curriculum to enhance product and disease state knowledge and selling skills
  • Design training curriculums for field roles covering both disease/product as well as functional role training and leadership development content
  • Creation and implementation of launch readiness training plans for future new indications/products/disease states
  • Utilize concepts of measurement to rate effectiveness of trainings and make needed adjustments for future trainings
  • Serve as strategic partner to meet the needs of the USBU by understanding timelines and key initiatives
  • Partner with sales leadership, and the marketing team to define and prioritize national and regional meeting goals, develop sales meeting content, design and develop workshops, and agendas while managing timelines
  • Manage and partner with training vendors to create content and be able to adhere to project timelines
  • Conduct field rides as needed to assess the field needs and pull through of initiatives
  • Ability to travel up to 30%
Requirements:Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree required
  • 8+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical/biotech industry
  • 3+ years of experience in a commercial training role within pharmaceutical/biotech industry, preferably supporting ultra rare disease products
  • Demonstrated deep experience designing and developing workshops without vendor support and have a familiarity of implementing adult learning principles
  • Strong knowledge of rare disease preferred, market dynamics, including distribution, patient support, high-touch care coordination, and innovative reimbursement models
  • Demonstrated experience creating content for NSM/POAs and designing agendas
  • Exceptional communication and presentation skills
  • Ability to work cross-functionally and experience working with Legal, Medical and Regulatory Review Process
  • Previous field leader experience in pharma/biotech preferred
Salary Range: $175,000 to $195,000k a year/DOEBenefits:
  • 401(k) plan with company match
  • Medical, dental, and vision plans
  • Company-offered Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) insurance
  • Company-provided short and long-term disability benefits
  • Unique offerings of Pet Insurance and Legal Insurance
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Employee Discounts
  • Professional Development
  • Health Saving Account (HSA)
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Various incentive compensation plans
  • Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity Insurance
  • Mental Health resources
  • Paid leave benefits for new parents
Ascendis Pharma is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.A note to recruiters:We do not allow external search party solicitation. Presentation of candidates without written permission from the Ascendis Pharma Inc Human Resources team (specifically from: Talent Acquisition Partner or Human Resources Director) is not allowed. If this occurs your ownership of these candidates will not be acknowledged.

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