Director, Commercial Learning and Development-Liver/Covid

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Job Description
 

Reporting to the Exec. Director, US Commercial Learning and Development, this individual will lead the US CL+D Treatment team.  The individual in this role oversees the development of all training curriculum, provides expertise in the implementation and sustainment of the program, and provides mentorship and development to a team of therapeutic area training managers.

This position is based at our Foster City, CA headquarters. Currently we are in a GFLEX program where Gilead is requiring employees to be in office HQ 3 days a week,
 

As the Director, Commercial Learning and Development- Liver/Covid you will:

• Lead development and implementation of knowledge/skill-based training focused on ensuring Liver/Covid TA success through therapeutic disease state, product knowledge for commercial field sales, and advanced selling skills training.

• Lead, coach, motivate and inspire a team in pursuit of Commercial & CL&D objectives to foster a collaborative and productive environment.

• Previous L+D and people leadership skills a strong plus.

• Possess strong interpersonal communication skills; facilitation skills; problem solving, decision making, working in a matrix environment and analytical skills.

• Requires strong influence skills especially gaining alignment across various levels and functions. 

• Partners with stakeholders, subject matter experts and colleagues to define, evaluate and up level training needs through determination of knowledge gaps, needs assessment as well integrated training materials.

• Supports relevant internal departments including Marketing, Commercial (management, field sales, regional trainers), Commercial Operations, Medical Information, Legal, Business Conduct and Regulatory.

• Monitors and maintains alignment with Commercial group’s strategic training plan while balancing short-term and long-term business goals.

• Apply best practices in adult learning theory to promote continuous learning and reinforce Gilead’s commercial strategy.

• Responsible for hiring, leading, developing and promoting more junior employees within Learning and Development

• Understands and has experience with instructor-led, virtual instructor-led, virtual and web-based training.

• Must have the ability to focus on performance by establishing clear objectives for the training outcomes and team responsible

• Oversees development of content supporting new hire, national meetings, manager meetings, sustainment and ongoing skills training throughout the year.

• Incorporate motivating, creative, and interactive training techniq