What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Field Leadership Development position at Sobi?
Introduction / Purpose / Position Summary :
The Director of Field Leadership Development will design and execute a comprehensive leadership development strategy aimed at enhancing the skills capabilities and performance of fieldbased leaders and emerging leaders in a rare disease commercial organization. This role focuses on building worldclass training and development programs fostering leadership excellence and aligning with the strategic goals of the organization. The Director will partner closely with Sales Marketing Market Access and HR teams to create initiatives that enable field leaders to drive business success in a highly dynamic a complex healthcare environment as well as identify and support emerging field leaders. The candidate should demonstrate a passion for creating and delivering learning journeys to support leaders at all levels across the commercial organization. Additionally the candidate will need to thrive in a fastpaced environment make good decisions with limited information gain consensus with multiple stakeholders and manage multiple levels of leadership while leading work and deliverables.
Essential Responsibilities / Scope of the Job :
- Develop and maintain strong business partnerships with commercial leaders at every level to understand business goals and strategies and identify opportunities for learning and development programs or support
- Evaluate training programs curriculum tools platforms and corresponding training materials for multiple layers of management to ensure alignment with business goals and strategies
- Champion development delivery and management of learning journeys across multiple roles / levels
- Proactively conduct ongoing feedback discussions with leaders and key stakeholders across the organization to identify opportunities for continuous improvement and relevancy of all learning and development program content
- Collaborates and communicates closely with crossfunctional partners (e.g. HR)
- Manage the identification and selection of vendors as well as subsequent relationships and projects related to learning and development programs
- Attend appropriate training classes to maintain an advanced level of knowledge
- Forecast future needs manage budget and achieve financial targets
Qualifications :
A Bachelors degree (science or business preferred) or an equivalent combination of relevant education and applicable job experience may be considered. MBA preferred. A minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible experience in pharmaceutical or medical sales and training with a minimum of 5 years in a training and / or sales leadership role. A focus on leadership development is preferred. Requires prior pharmaceutical sales experience pharmaceutical / biotech sales management experience plus vendor and contract management. Experience with product launches and rare disease experience is highly desired.
Position Qualifications (knowledge skills abilities education experience) :
Additional Information :
The base salary pay range for this role is $175000$230000 annually. Actual pay for this position will take into account factors such as experience and location. In addition to a base salary this position is also eligible for a competitive 401k match short and longterm incentives medical dental vision STD / LTD and life insurance benefits in addition to other health and wellness programs and offerings.
All Sobi employees need to demonstrate behaviors in line with Sobis core values : Care Ambition Urgency Ownership and Partnership. Are you ready to be on the Sobi team Come join a culture that empowers every person to be the person that makes a difference for rare disease.
Why Join Us
We are a global company with over 1700 employees in more than 30 countries and are committed to the societies where we operate. With a deeply skilled management team directing our daytoday wins and a Board with a stellar track record were ready to take on the worlds diseases ailments and adversity. Our people believe they have the power to make a positive impact in others lives because thats exactly what we do here. If youre seeking a career that taps into your talents in a way that makes the world a better healthier place we just may have a job for you.
We know our employees are our most valuable asset and our culture conveys that. We offer a competitive benefits package to support the health and happiness of our staff.
Sobi Culture
At Sobi we refuse to accept the status quo. This is because we have witnessed firsthand the challenges facing those affected by rare diseases and have used this knowledge to shape our business to find new ways of helping them.
As a specialized biopharmaceutical company we are dedicated to rare diseases. And we see this focus as a strength. By effectively turning our research into groundbreaking treatments we help make medicine more accessible and open up more possibilities for patients and more opportunities for those caring for them. This has been our approach since day one but we know we cant change the world of rare diseases on our own. Accomplishing this requires strong partnerships with patients partners and stakeholders across the entire value chain. Together we define how our business can create solutions that serve the needs of those affected by rare diseases while facilitating sustainable growth.
An Equal Opportunity Employer
Sobi is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. All employment decisions at Sobi are based on business needs job requirements and individual qualifications without regard to race color religion or belief national social or ethnic origin sex (including pregnancy) age physical mental or sensory disability HIV Status sexual orientation gender identity protected veterans and / or expression marital civil union or domestic partnership status past or present military service family medical history or genetic information family or parental status or any other status or protected groups by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.
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For the safety of our employees and all individuals with whom we interact professionally Sobi North America requires all new hires in the U.S. to be fully vaccinated for COVID19 with proof of vaccination status. We will consider requests for reasonable medical or religious accommodations as well as any statespecific exemptions as required by applicable law.
Remote Work : Employment Type :
Fulltime
Salary : $175,000 - $230,000
