Director, Global Commercial Learning Strategy & Curriculum
About The Position
The Director, Global Commercial Learning Strategy & Curriculum provides strategic leadership for the global design, development, governance, and scaling of commercial learning. The role brings together curriculum strategy, instructional design, and content operations to create connected, high-impact learning experiences that address business priorities while balancing global consistency with local market needs. It works across a complex global organization to advance scalable, innovative, and future-ready approaches to commercial capability development. The Director leads global commercial learning architecture and curriculum strategy across Product and Therapeutic Area learning, Sales Leader Development, Marketing Excellence, selling skills, and advanced commercial capabilities. The role leads instructional design, governs the learning portfolio and content lifecycle, and develops flexible operating models using internal expertise, contractors, external partners, and AI-enabled capabilities. It serves as a strategic advisor across commercial learning and related functions, incorporates affiliate and market insights, and partners with Learning Technology and Learning Effectiveness leaders on scalable, measurable learning solutions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree and twelve years of experience, or a master's degree and ten years of experience, or a Ph.D. and eight years of experience.
- Significant commercial learning, capability development, curriculum strategy, or instructional design experience within the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, or another regulated industry.
- Experience leading global or enterprise learning initiatives in a complex, matrixed organization.
- Expertise in curriculum architecture, learner journey design, instructional design, and content governance.
- Experience supporting Product and Therapeutic Area learning and partnering with Marketing and other commercial capability owners.
- Ability to establish scalable strategies, standards, governance frameworks, and flexible operating models.
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and align teams across functions, regions, and affiliates.
- Experience leading blended teams of employees, contractors, agencies, and external partners.
- Working knowledge of regulated content development, localization, pharmaceutical content approval, and content lifecycle management.
- Experience improving learning quality, speed, scalability, or impact through content reuse, automation, AI, or new operating models.
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve global commercial learning architecture, curriculum strategy, governance, and learner journeys across Product and Therapeutic Area learning, Sales Leader Development, Marketing Excellence, selling skills, and advanced commercial capabilities.
- Translate business priorities into connected, scalable learning solutions that balance global consistency with local market needs.
- Lead the instructional design function and establish standards for curriculum design, learner experience, content quality, and delivery.
- Govern the commercial learning portfolio, including content lifecycle management, localization, pharmaceutical review, and reuse of learning assets and intellectual property.
- Lead a flexible development model that uses internal expertise, contractors, external partners, and AI-enabled capabilities while preserving institutional knowledge.
- Evaluate resourcing and investment trade-offs to optimize quality, speed, scalability, and business impact.
- Serve as a strategic advisor and drive alignment across Global Commercial Learning & Development, Product and Therapeutic Area Learning, Marketing, global affiliates, and enabling functions.
- Champion global learning solutions and incorporate affiliate and market insights into future curriculum and learner journey strategies.
- Connect content and resources across functions to reduce duplication, break down silos, and accelerate development.
- Partner with Learning Technology and Learning Effectiveness leaders to enable scalable, measurable, and AI-enabled learning solutions.
- Create inclusion, develop talent, and empower teams through people leadership.
Benefits
- May be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus.
- May be eligible for discretionary stock-based long-term incentives; eligibility may vary by role.
- Paid time off.
- Company-sponsored medical insurance.
- Company-sponsored dental insurance.
- Company-sponsored vision insurance.
- Company-sponsored life insurance.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
