Associate Director, Commercial Training and Development - Job ID : 1695

Associate Director, Commercial Training And Development

Ascendis Pharma is a dynamic, fast-growing global biopharmaceutical company with locations in Denmark, Europe, and the United States. Today, we're advancing programs in Endocrinology, Rare Disease and Oncology.

Here at Ascendis, we pride ourselves on exceptional science, visionary leadership, and skilled and passionate colleagues.

Guided by our core values of Patients, Science, and Passion, we use our TransCon drug development platform to fulfill our mission of developing new and potentially best-in-class therapies to address unmet medical needs. Our culture fosters a place where skilled, adaptable, and highly resourceful professionals can truly make their mark. We offer a dynamic workplace for employees to grow and develop their skills.

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Associate Director, Commercial Training And Development to join the commercial training team. This individual will be responsible for creating and delivering training for the U.S. Commercial teams (Sales Reps, Account Managers, Field Reimbursement Managers at Ascendis as well as external partners. This individual will have a primary focus on the YORVIPATH / hypopara disease states but also support the Growth team as needed.

Key Responsibilities :

• Create and deliver training content including learning modules, trainings and workshops for both new hire training as well as ad-hoc training
• Collaborate with commercial team leaders to identify skill gaps to determine training needs and develop a training curriculum to enhance product and disease state knowledge and selling skills
• Design training curriculums for field roles covering both disease / product as well as functional role training and leadership development content
• Creation and implementation of launch readiness training plans for future new indications / products / disease states
• Utilize concepts of measurement to rate effectiveness of trainings and make needed adjustments for future trainings
• Serve as strategic partner to meet the needs of the USBU by understanding timelines and key initiatives
• Partner with sales leadership, and the marketing team to define and prioritize national and regional meeting goals, develop sales meeting content, design and develop workshops, and agendas while managing timelines
• Manage and partner with training vendors to create content and be able to adhere to project timelines
• Conduct field rides as needed to assess the field needs and pull through of initiatives
• Ability to travel up to 30%