Director, Learning and Development for Research & Development

Job Description

The Position

Join a dynamic team at the heart of helping Organon to realize its vision of creating a better and healthier every day for every woman. Organon is a global leader in women’s health, delivering medicines and health technologies in the areas of reproductive health, maternal health and conditions that are unique to and disproportionately affect women. Our goal is to deliver innovation, improve access and expand choice to help address the therapeutic gaps in women’s health around the world, and ultimately improve the lives of women globally.

We’re looking for an experienced professional who brings strong leadership and expertise in compliance and learning and development to join our team as the Director, Learning & Development for R&D. This is a key role on the Innovation Strategy and Integration team within Organon’s R&D function.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted advisor to the R&D Leadership Team and Quality on learning and development strategies that identify and manage risk for the R&D function, work cross functionally to lead R&D’s efforts to ensure readiness and compliance for audits and inspections;

• Execute on the learning strategy as it relates to compliance across R&D with the goal of ensuring compliance and driving organizational priorities;

• Liaise with R&D functional areas to identify technical and scientific skill gaps and in turn, design training programs to fill those gaps;

• Serve as R&D representative on enterprise L&D initiatives and issues to ensure needs and requests are considered in company prioritization;

• Oversee the team responsible for the Organon library of scientific resources and content, engage with stakeholders across the enterprise to better understand their information needs and enable the library team to strategically approach value for all users.

• Responsible for engagement strategies for R&D focused on building connections for a globally dispersed employee population, driving organizational priorities and living our values.

Required Education, Experience and Skills

• Highly collaborative, outstanding communication and relationship management skills, prior people leadership experience, high EQ

• Strong track record for bridging scientific and business constituents, negotiating timelines and willingness to speak up and take the initiative to bring something from idea to implementation – collaborating across the organization to ensure appropriate coordination and alignment

• Ability to engage and collaborate with senior leaders around business strategy, outcomes and compliance - make recommendations on strategies that help to manage risk for our function

• Resilience and agility to drive and adapt to change while contributing to a culture of continuous improvement

• Strong communications and visualization skills to help deliver complex information into consistent views

• BA/BS in a scientific or business focused discipline

• 10+ years in the life-sciences, pharmaceutical industry

• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in quality, compliance and learning and development

• Strong analytical, organizational and problem-solving skills

• Demonstrated leadership and ethics; demonstrated ability to hold others accountable for delivery

• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a team setting, including demonstrated ability in building and managing teams, committees, taskforces etc. 

• Strong collaboration and problem-solving skills; able to establish good working relationships with employees at all levels, resolve conflict and provide feedback, and to devise and implement creative solutions to problems. 

• Strong communication skills, both oral and written; demonstrated ability to speak up appropriately and to raise issues to teams and senior management. 

• Ability to manage through complexity and ambiguity along with competing priorities. 

• Must have attention to detail and a proven track record to be able to think critically, strategically, independently and problem solve.  

• Must have high level of motivation, drive, and demonstration of Organon leadership values.

• Demonstrated sensitivity and knowledge of cultural differences with experience in multi-country, multi-cultural environments and demonstrated success with cross-geographically based cultural collaborations.  

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Who We Are:

Organon delivers ingenious health solutions that enable people to live their best lives. We are a $6.5 bil