Associate Director, Oncology Commercial Capability

At AstraZeneca, we turn ideas into life changing medicines. Working here means being entrepreneurial, thinking big and working together to make the impossible a reality. We’re focused on the potential of science to address the unmet needs of patients around the world. We commit to those areas where we think we can really change the course of medicine and bring big new ideas to life. As the Associate Director of Commercial Capability Training, you’ll play a pivotal role in channelling our marketing capabilities to make a positive impact on changing patients’ lives across the globe.
- **Role can be based in Cambridge or Gaithersburg**

AstraZeneca’s vision in Oncology is to help patients by redefining the cancer-treatment paradigm, with the aim of bringing six new cancer medicines to patients between 2013 and 2020. A broad pipeline of next-generation medicines is focused principally on four disease areas - breast, ovarian, lung and haematological cancers. As well as other tumour types, these are being targeted through four key platforms - immunotherapy, the genetic drivers of cancer and resistance, DNA damage repair, and antibody drug conjugates, underpinned by personalized healthcare and biomarker technologies.

**What you’ll do**

The Associate Director of Commercial Capability Training is responsible for the development and deployment of a training and development programme to support the principles critical for marketing. The incumbent will collaborate closely with his/her counterparts across a variety of functions within the Oncology Business Unit to align training programmes with the strategic direction of the business unit. The programme is intended to embed marketing principles across both new hire and continuous learning points of time in markets and also global marketing functions. The Associate Director is expected to develop a consistent service delivery that is evident in all learning and development assets identified and created.

**Essential responsibilities of the role will include**:

- Collaborates with internal leaders (market and global) to understand current and future learning needs in order to develop short and longer terms specialized training programmes for Marketing personnel
- Develop a scalable training programme that meets both onboarding and continuous training to support key marketing principles
- Leads the identification, deployment, and promotion of the most effective and innovative practices connected with marketing principles and practice
- Ensures evaluation of program metrics as a means of determining training impact in areas for growth and of success
- Drives a customer-focused and performance-driven culture that supports innovation, simplification, measurement, and excellence in learning development and delivery
- Creates synergies teams to create cost savings collaboration and to avoid duplication of efforts.
**Essential for the role**
- Minimum of 5 years of Pharmaceutical Marketing Experience
- Minimum of 3 years of Training Experience and/or other specialized role preferred
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent required
- Experience working in global markets, pharmaceutical product launch and strategic marketing
**Desirable for the role**
- 3 years of Oncology experience
- Current digital experience and digital trends knowledge
- Ability to effectively lead in a cross-functional and virtual team environment, providing direction and guidance to team members with varied and complementary responsibilities
- Knowledge of instructional systems design
**Why AstraZeneca?**

At AstraZeneca when we see an opportunity for change, we seize it and make it happen, because any opportunity no matter how small, can be the start of something big. Delivering life-changing medicines is about being entrepreneurial - finding those moments and recognising their potential. Join us on our journey of building a new kind of organisation to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we’re opening new ways to work, pioneering cutting edge methods and bringing unexpected teams together. Interested? Come and join our journey.
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