Associate Director, Global Oncology Training, Ddr Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

**Location** Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

**Job ID** R-226690

**Date posted** 13/05/2025

**Associate Director, Global Oncology Training, DDR**

The Associate Director, Global Oncology Training, DDR oversees the curriculum and assets for global market needs in DDR. They ensure alignment within each Oncology Learning and Capabilities Development (OL&CD) function and maintain a consistent service delivery level. The role involves collaborating with sales, marketing, medical, and other leaders to develop strategies that align with business unit priorities and program objectives.

**Essential Responsibilities**:

- Works directly with internal global stakeholders, including training managers, global brand leads, and US leads to understand current and future learning needs of the business.
- Establishes strong cross-functional relationships across the product, marketing, and existing internal training teams to develop a scalable global training program that meets launch and life cycle management goals of key global customers.
- Leads the identification, deployment, and promotion of the most effective and innovative practices across the department and globe; including launches.
- Leads teams to evaluate program metrics as a means of determining training impact in areas for growth and of success.
- Supports team members to achieve a customer-focused and performance-driven culture that supports Innovation, simplification, measurement, and excellence in learning development and delivery.
- Identifies best practices in early markets and cultivates an environment of best practice sharing for the benefit of subsequent launch markets
- Creates synergies across the teams to create cost savings collaboration and to avoid duplication of efforts.

**Qualifications & Experience**:

- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent
- Minimum of 5 years of a blend of pharmaceutical/biotech/oncology experience
- Demonstrated competency in working with/collaborating with medical learning & development and science liaison teams
- Ability to understand brand strategy and related strategic imperatives and develop learning that clearly conveys and pulls-through that strategy at the field level
- Demonstrated ability to effectively and concisely communicate (verbally and in writing) with all levels of stakeholders in the global commercial organization
- Ability to effectively lead in a cross-functional and virtual team environment, providing direction and guidance to team members with varied and complementary responsibilities.

**Preferred Requirements**:

- Advanced degree in medical, pharmaceutical, or life sciences or a related field or equivalent
- Minimum of 3 years of Oncology experience
- Minimum of 3 years of a blend of pharmaceutical sales, sales management and/or training experience
- Knowledge of instructional systems design preferred
- Experience working with/in global (ex-US) markets

**Competencies**
- Consultative abilities; demonstrated experience in identifying market-specific client needs and making appropriate recommendations for the most effective L&D solutions
- Negotiation abilities; demonstrated experience working with leadership across functions to identify common areas of need and gain consensus on forward strategies that will deliver desired results
- Technical breadth across multiple disease areas; ability to demonstrate aptitude for continued knowledge development
- Strong project team management skills; with demonstrated ability to focus on effective procurement and planning of resources and establishing viable project milestones and final deadlines
- Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills to assess stakeholder needs, anticipate and resolve functional area challenges
- Demonstrate accountability to deliver performance while managing multiple priorities; overcome obstacles to successfully achieve performance results
- Prior people leadership experience demonstrating ability to influence and lead others to success
- Working knowledge of information/technology systems that support learning and development initiatives.

**Benefits**
- An attractive pipeline and innovative products
- Individual development opportunities and a focus on lifelong learning
- A lot of trust, appreciation, and space for collaboration in a focused and passionate team
- A sustainable company that will become carbon-negative across its entire value chain by 2030
- An attractive benefits package, including EGYM Wellpass, corporate benefits and much more