Associate Director, Global Medical Affairs Training

Department:

107200 Medical Affairs

Location:

San Diego, USA- Remote

Be a part of a global team that is inspired to make a difference in the lives of people living with rare disease.

At Travere Therapeutics, we recognize that our exceptional employees are vital to our success. We are a dedicated team focused on meeting the unique needs of rare patients. Our work is rewarding – both professionally and personally – because we are making a difference. We are passionate about what we do.

We are seeking talented individuals who will thrive in our collaborative, diverse, fast-paced environment and share in our mission – to identify, develop and deliver life-changing therapies to people living with rare disease. We stick by our values centered on patients, courage, community, and collaboration to pursue our vision of becoming a leading biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the delivery of innovation and hope to patients in the global rare disease community.

At Travere Therapeutics, we are in rare for life. We continue to courageously forge new paths as we move toward a common goal of elevating science and service for rare patients.

Position Summary:
The Associate Director, GMA Training will work closely with the Senior Director, GMA Training to develop and implement an industry-leading medical affairs training and scientific education program for Travere. This individual will create, deliver, and facilitate field-specific and product training, as well as interface with the field medical organization along with various other functions within Travere to ensure the scientific medical training activities are structured to enable the achievement of medical affairs strategy and objectives.

Primary responsibilities will include conducting learning needs assessments, creating, delivering, and coordinating field medical new hire onboarding curriculum training, advanced training, certification program, and ongoing skills training. Deliverables will include content development such as onboarding and continuous education training materials, quick reference materials, etc. There is also an expectation to leverage a variety of communication channels to meet the needs of different adult learning styles as well as drive continuous improvement of training curriculum.

Responsibilities:
• Develop an expert level of scientific acumen of our rare disease therapeutic areas and pipeline products.
• Responsible for the creation and/or refinement, delivery, and implementation of the Travere GMA Onboarding Curriculum for our current and pipeline products.
• Partner and gain alignment with the Therapeutic Area Leads and Field Medical leadership to determine learning gaps in scientific content, product knowledge and skills, then implement necessary trainings.
• Responsible for training of Medical Affairs new hires as well as ongoing scientific training needs related to new data, emerging products, and field tools.
• Support ongoing learning programs for the Field Team to develop field competencies and skills with support of training and field team leadership.
• Collaborate with cross functional partners in order to build and execute training for offsite meetings.
• Responsible for the development of classroom training programs, and eLearning/mobile Learning modules.
• Build and implement post-training tools to analyze training effectiveness and work with cross functional teams to continually improve training curriculum to meet organizational needs.
• Maintain a digital learning platform (learning management system) and the training resources libraries.
• Establish and implement certifications and key metrics to track and communicate value and impact of learning initiatives to internal stakeholders.
• Select, develop, and manage relationships with vendors/partners.
• Manage simultaneous learning projects and meet deadlines, with the ability to build learning content and collaborate on content reuse across multiple stakeholders.

Education/Experience Requirements:
• PharmD, Ph.D., PA, or NP in medical biosciences. Advanced clinical degree preferred. Equivalent combination of education and applicable job experience may be considered.
• Minimum 4+ years industry Medical Affairs experience and/or minimum 2 years as a Medical Science Liaison.
• Prior training experience is strongly preferred and experience in delivering training in multiple learning platforms (workshop, virtual, e-learning, simulation) is also preferred.
• Nephrology and/or rare disease experience is strongly preferred.

Additional Skills/Experience/Requirements:
• Strong collaboration, communication, partnering, and experience in leading without authority is preferred.
• Ability to work independently with minimal day to day superv