Associate Director Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• 5–7 years of experience delivering learning in the biopharmaceutical industry or another highly regulated environment.
• Proven ability to build, inspire, and lead teams to meet or exceed objectives.
• Experience with modern learning methodologies and multimodal delivery, including capability-development program design and implementation.
• Strategic, forward-thinking, agile, enterprise mindset.
• Customer-service mindset and ability to consult and influence across a complex global matrix organization.
• Strong verbal and written communication, including communicating business needs and engaging internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
• Corporate maturity.
• Strong organization and ability to manage multiple stakeholders, priorities, and programs in a dynamic environment.
• Ability to prioritize business needs and make timely decisions based on available data.
• Proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and AI applications such as ChatGPT, MS Copilot, or Claude.
• Ability to travel approximately 20% for meetings and training engagements.

Nice To Haves

• Doctor of Pharmacy or master’s degree.
• Prior oncology experience, including Lung/Thoracic.

Responsibilities

• Lead annual medical learning plans supporting HOM and FM team needs, aligned with strategic priorities and coordinated with US HOM, US FM Leadership, WW Medical Learning Leads, and other partners.
• Oversee needs assessments, program evaluations, and quarterly learning updates to keep onboarding and ongoing training aligned with stakeholder needs.
• Set strategic direction for FM launch readiness and ensure delivery of learning solutions, readiness milestones, and execution plans.
• Oversee design, development, deployment, and continuous improvement of therapeutic-area medical and scientific education for US FM and HOM teams.
• Guide training related to BMS scientific data releases at major US congresses, including embargoed-data training, workshops, and post-congress contextualization.
• Provide governance for evaluation and use of external speakers, consultants, and subject matter experts, ensuring alignment with learning strategy and business needs.
• Establish regular review of learning materials and programs and guide incorporation of stakeholder input, leadership feedback, and approved updates.
• Partner with HOM and FM leadership to establish training windows and portfolio-planning rhythms that protect field time while enabling timely learning delivery.
• Champion adoption of innovative learning approaches, processes, and technologies to improve learner experience, efficiency, and impact.
• Provide strategic oversight for training supporting priority tiered clinical trials, coordinating with Medical Engagement Excellence, WW Medical Learning Leads, US FM Leadership, and R&D colleagues.
• Lead, develop, and retain a high-performing learning team, including setting priorities, allocating resources, developing talent, and building a succession bench.
• Align staffing, budget, and capacity plans with business priorities, portfolio needs, and expected outcomes.
• Foster an inclusive, connected, and empowered team culture that supports accountability, agility, development, and collaboration.
• Build cross-functional relationships to enable strategic alignment, best-practice sharing, consistency where appropriate, and effective execution.
• Establish standards and operating practices for consistent, high-quality learning across brands while allowing flexibility for business-specific needs.
• Ensure the team maintains the product, business, and learning expertise needed to consult with stakeholders and deliver effective training.
• Synthesize stakeholder input, business signals, and learning-performance data to identify trends and guide priorities.
• Collaborate with enterprise learning and business leaders to align learning strategies with business priorities, enterprise standards, compliance, performance, and culture goals.
• Maintain current knowledge of adult-learning trends and best practices.
• Participate in or lead strategic initiatives across WWCL with WW and US CL Leadership Teams.
• May spend time in the field with FM team members identifying training gaps, coaching and assessing performance, and implementing training plans.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits, including wellbeing support, retirement and financial protection benefits, and medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance offerings, subject to plan terms and eligibility.
• Flexible Time Off without a set accrual limit for eligible US-based exempt employees, subject to manager approval.
• 11 paid company holidays annually for eligible employees.
• For non-exempt employees, RayzeBio employees, and employees in Puerto Rico: 160 hours of paid vacation annually for new hires, subject to manager approval, 11 paid company holidays, and 3 optional holidays.
• Depending on eligibility, paid sick leave, up to two paid volunteer days per year, summer-hours flexibility, and leaves for medical, personal, parental, caregiver, bereavement, or military needs.
• Eligible employees receive an annual Global Shutdown between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day.
• Potential eligibility for discretionary incentive cash and stock opportunities.