Senior Director, Commercial Training & Development

Amylyx Pharmaceuticals•Cambridge, MA

3d•Remote

About The Position

Amylyx has an audacious mission to usher in a new era for treating diseases with high unmet needs. Where others see challenges, we see opportunities that we pursue with urgency, rigorous science, and unwavering commitment to the communities we serve. We are a clinical-stage company currently focused on post-bariatric hypoglycemia (PBH), Wolfram syndrome, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Our mission is powered by our people. Our core values – be audacious, be curious, be authentic, be engaged, and be accountable – creating a culture of caring. Amylyx has assembled an experienced team ready to take action because the communities we serve have no time to wait. If you share our passion and are determined to tackle some of medicine’s toughest problems, we encourage you to read the opportunity below and apply. The Opportunity Reporting into the Vice President, Commercial Operations, the Senior Director, Commercial Training & Development is a highly visible, enterprise-level leadership role responsible for defining and driving all training needs to support U.S. commercialization and global expansion. Senior Director will serve as the strategic owner of the training and readiness function of our customer-facing teams (field and/or home office).

Requirements

Significant experience and success leading customer-facing commercial training and development teams, ideally in rare disease, specialty, or complex launch environments
Strong understanding of how to translate brand strategy, medical insights, market access priorities, and customer needs into practical training programs that improve field readiness and customer engagement effectiveness
Bachelor’s degree required
12-15+ years of experience in pharmaceutical or biotech customer-facing training, with increasing levels of responsibility
Exceptional communication and executive presence
Strong vendor management, budget oversight, and project management skills
High degree of initiative, curiosity, and comfort with ambiguity in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment.

Nice To Haves

advanced degree (PhD, MD, PharmD, or MBA) preferred

Responsibilities

Design and implement a flexible customer engagement training model that supports multiple field-based teams and serves as the scalable foundation for ongoing training needs across the commercial organization
Build comprehensive and compelling training curricula across disease state, product, customer engagement, launch readiness, compliance, and role-specific competencies (e.g., manage care organization / field reimbursement account teams, patient services teams, thought leader liaison teams, sales management) for a rare endocrine condition or similarly specialized therapeutic area
Manage external training vendors and agency partners to develop high-quality, scientifically accurate, compliant, and engaging training content aligned to commercial strategy and field execution needs
Partner seamlessly with Sales, Marketing, Medical Affairs, Market Access, Patient Services, Compliance, and other field leaders to ensure training content is strategically aligned, medically accurate, compliant, operationally relevant, and reflects the authentic experience of our HCP and community stakeholders
Partner with analytics teams to measure the impact of training curricula and implementation
Manage meeting/planning vendor resources for all field meetings, including product launch meetings, field POA meetings, annual NSM, etc.
Experience establishing training infrastructure, processes, governance, measurement approaches, and continuous improvement practices to support a 2027 product launch and future commercial growth