Senior Manager Commercial Learning & Development – HIV Community Liaison

At Gilead, we’re creating a healthier world for all people. For more than 35 years, we’ve tackled diseases such as HIV, viral hepatitis, COVID-19 and cancer – working relentlessly to develop therapies that help improve lives and to ensure access to these therapies across the globe. We continue to fight against the world’s biggest health challenges, and our mission requires collaboration, determination and a relentless drive to make a difference.
 

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Job Description
 

Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company that has pursued and achieved breakthroughs in medicine for more than three decades, with the goal of creating a healthier world for all people. The company is committed to advancing innovative medicines to prevent and treat life-threatening diseases, including HIV, viral hepatitis and cancer. Gilead operates in more than 35 countries worldwide, with headquarters in Foster City, California.

Reporting to the Director, Commercial Learning and Development for HIV, the Sr. Manager Commercial L&D will oversee development of and provide expertise in the implementation of a training curriculum and sustainment that serves the needs for the Gilead Field Commercial Organization within the HIV Business Unit.

This position is posted as either a Remote position (25-30% travel) or Head Quarters (15-20% travel) based on the successful candidate making an informed choice. Travel is required to attend meetings, training events and field visits.

Essential Duties and Job Functions:

· Lead and collaborate on the development and implementation of knowledge/skill-based training focused on ensuring success through therapeutic disease state and product knowledge for commercial field sales.

· Develops and executes training with a specific focus on our new hire program ‘Accelerate’ as well as account management skills, product knowledge, new promotional campaigns, product launches, communication skills, selling skills, phased trainings, sales meeting training workshops, ongoing learning sustainment programs & other as needed field sales.

· Design the Community Liaison (CL) training plan and sustainment programs aligned to strategic commercial goals

· Collaborate with CL leadership, Marketing, Medical Affairs, Ethics & Compliance, and other stakeholders to ensure training content is current, effective, and compliant.

· Lead the regional training agenda to develop skills of CLs; mentor and coach team members.

· Drive cross-functional initiatives (e.g., linkage to care education, branded/unbranded curricula) to enhance CL impact in territory.

· Partners with external vendors to design curricula or programs and planning of instructional methods and materials using adult learning principles.

· Effectively prepares for instruction by conducting needs assessments, identifying targeted participant characteristics, and soliciting cross-functional feedback before finalizing design and strategy.

· Offers solutions for bridging gaps between current organizational capabilities and needs.

· Helps ensure readiness of the organization for training deployment including identifying key stakeholders and determining their needs in advance, in order to deliver high quality and effective programming.

· Analyzes the characteristics of existing technologies and their use in instructional design.

· Partners with subject matter experts and key stakeholders to identify training needs, improve training solutions and lead change initiative implementation.

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

· Manages budget (accruals and invoices) aligned with both the development of training resources and / or POA / Sales Meetings

Knowledge, Experience and Skills:

· Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications including Word, Teams and PowerPoint, particularly as used in the development of instructional content.

· Highly self-motivated and self-managed; ability to work independently and as part of a team with minimal coaching or supervision.

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