Duration: 12-month contract
Location: Remote (U.S. only)
Time Zone: Flexible (candidate can be located anywhere in the U.S.)
The ideal candidate is a scientifically credible learning professional with a strong oncology background who can quickly absorb complex clinical data and translate it into engaging educational content. They should be comfortable leading learning initiatives independently, presenting to scientific audiences, and creating high-quality learning materials in a fast-paced pharmaceutical environment.
Candidates should possess excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to make complex scientific information easy to understand and engaging for adult learners.
Success in this role comes from combining scientific expertise with instructional design, program leadership, and strong stakeholder communication.
R&D Knowledge and Learning Sr Manager
As a Knowledge and Learning professional, you will play a strategic leadership role in shaping how our Global Medical Affairs teams learn, grow, and deliver on their mission. You will be responsible for proactively planning, implementing, and delivering scientific training globally, focused on advancing knowledge of therapeutic areas, the treatment landscape, and emerging data. This role requires close cross-functional collaboration with Global Medical, Scientific Communications, Clinical Development, and Medical Science Liaisons to ensure training strategies are aligned, integrated, and impactful.
By driving a culture of scientific learning and excellence, you will ensure that medical teams are equipped with the scientific expertise needed, empowering them to advance patient care and achieve meaningful impact.
Primary Responsibilities:
Collaborate with Global Medical Affairs leadership to anticipate learning needs, align scientific training with organizational strategy, and ensure they equip teams with the expertise required to meet their objectives.
Lead the end-to-end process of proactively planning, implementing, and delivering global scientific trainings aligned with medical and organizational priorities.
Design and implement global scientific learning strategies that deepen expertise and prepare teams for the evolving therapeutic landscape.
Partner with subject matter experts to develop high-quality scientific training content and materials internally, ensuring accuracy, relevance, and scientific rigor.
Lead new hire and new-to-product onboarding, ensuring teams are equipped with a strong foundation in disease state, treatment landscape, data, and strategy to be effective in their roles.
Serve as a lead in scientific training, helping shape the long-term vision of scientific education and positioning training as a driver of organizational excellence.
Introduce new approaches, tools, and technologies (e.g., digital platforms, modular learning, peer-to-peer exchange) to create engaging and impactful scientific training.
Champion a culture of continuous scientific learning within Medical Affairs, fostering collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and scientific leadership development.
Adapt scientific training to diverse geographies and functions, tailoring approaches to meet the needs of global and regional medical teams.
Some travel may be required (approximately 20%).
Qualifications:
A professional degree of Pharm.D., or MD/DO or PhD in a relevant medical science field (eg, biology, chemistry, pharmacology) with 5 or more years of biotech/pharmaceutical and /or clinical experience.
Understanding of learning methodology and design
Excellent technical writing, oral, presentation, and project management skills and the ability to search, critically analyze, and summarize scientific literature.
Understanding of the pharmaceutical commercialization process and knowledge of the legal and regulatory guidelines affecting promotion of prescription products.
Ability to interface cross-functionally in a dynamic, matrixed environment