Passion for Innovation. Compassion for Patients.
With over 120 years of experience and more than 17,000 employees in over 20 countries, Daiichi Sankyo is dedicated to discovering, developing, and delivering new standards of care that enrich the quality of life around the world.
In Europe, we focus on two areas: The goal of our Specialty Business is to protect people from cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death in Europe, and help patients who suffer from it to enjoy every precious moment of life. In Oncology, we strive to become a global pharma innovator with competitive advantage, creating novel therapies for people with cancer.
Our European headquarters are in Munich, Germany, and we have affiliates in 13 European countries and Canada.
Training Manager Oncology
The position:
The Training Manager Oncology will play a pivotal role in shaping the success of Daiichi Sankyo's Spain oncology portfolio by designing and implementing comprehensive training programs and initiatives. This position will ensure that the oncology team is equipped with advanced scientific and product knowledge, market insights, stakeholder engagement skills, and relevant capabilities to drive business growth across Spain. Reporting directly to the Commercial Excellence & Operation Director Spain, the Training Manager Oncology will collaborate closely with functional leads in medical affairs, commercial, and market access to understand training needs and business objectives, ensuring alignment with marketing strategies and product messaging.
This role will also work in close collaboration with the European Oncology Training & External Education team in our European headquarters to ensure localization and adaptation of European training materials, tailoring programs to meet ES-specific training needs and content requirements. Further collaboration with the local HR team is essential to discuss training and development needs identified in Personal Development Plans for the oncology team.
Networking is essential for success in this position, as well as understanding the company's short-term and long-term goals.
Location:
Full-Time, office based role (Madrid) with the flexibility to travel to field to deliver training as and when required.
Key responsibilities:
Onboarding and continuous Training & Development:
Design, develop, and deliver blended onboarding and training programs for the oncology team, focusing on product knowledge, market dynamics, stakeholder engagement and competitive positioning to ensure rapid integration and productivity.
Create engaging training materials utilizing several training channels that deliver against defined business goals in oncology, including presentations, e-learning modules, workshops, role-playing exercises and other formats.
Implement continuous education initiatives to keep the oncology team updated on new products, market changes and advanced selling and stakeholder engagement strategies.
Align onboarding and continuous training programs with long-term business objectives and market strategy.
Champion the importance of giving and receiving feedback and the use of Personal Development Plans in developing a high-performance culture.
Collaboration and Coordination:
Work closely with the European Training team to integrate scientific and clinical data into training programs, ensuring the Spanish teams can effectively communicate product benefits and clinical outcomes as well as coordinate and align on skills and capability trainings, ensuring that training includes elements of communication, negotiation, account management and relationship-building skills.
Foster cross-functional collaboration with the human resources department to leverage diverse expertise and ensure cohesive training strategies.
Assessment and Evaluation:
Develop assessment tools and metrics to pro-actively evaluate the effectiveness of training programs for oncology team members and the performance of customer facing teams. Provide quality reports to senior stakeholders and take the necessary corrective measures to ensure that business goals are achieved.
Conduct regular training needs assessments in alignment with the European oncology training team to identify gaps and areas for improvement and review on a regular basis.
Utilize data-driven insights to continuously refine training programs and ensure they meet evolving business needs.
Market and Competitive Insights:
Stay informed about market trends, competitor activities, and industry best practices to incorporate relevant insights into training programs.
Provide the customer facing teams with actionable market intelligence to enhance their engagement strategies and tactics.
Training Delivery and Facilitation:
Implement innovative training methodologies to enhance engagement and retention of training content and ensure training programs are culturally sensitive and compliant with local regulations .
Facilitate workshops and seminars both in-person and virtually, ensuring high levels of engagement and participation.
Work effectively with partner companies and external specialist agencies to ensure optimal design and delivery of training and development programs and activities, whenever internal resources are not sufficiently available. Furthermore he/she is able to critique the effectiveness of agency performance and takes effective measures when underperformance has been identified.
Foster a culture of learning within the ES Oncology Business Unit and create an attractive training offer to retain and attract critical oncology talents.
Prepares the annual budget to meet the training needs of employees in the field
The job requires up to 20% travel.
Personal Skills & professional experience:
Advanced university degree in Business, Marketing, Life Sciences or related field required (Minimum bachelor's degree, preferably master's degree)
Minimum of 5-7 years of experience in training is desirable, preferably within the pharmaceutical or healthcare industry with significant experience in oncology and/or previous experience within a customer facing role/marketing
Excellent communication / presentation/ facilitation skills as well as attention to detail and a strong commitment to quality output
Strategic view and global perspective
Willingness to approach and solve unprecedented challenges in the context of our rapidly growing portfolio and resulting training needs
Ability to manage multiple tasks, prioritize, meet deadlines and plan and manage training budget
Team player, open-minded, flexible, proactive, motivated and willing to learn and develop
Hands-on mentality
Proven ability to successfully work within a matrix environment and possession of high-level project management skills
Desirable CIPD Certificate in Learning & Development practice or equivalent
Experience in working with blended learning approaches and learning experience platforms
Strong NHS knowledge will be considered
Preferably ABPI (ES) Qualification as well as a thorough understanding of the ABPI Code of Practice
Full driving license and the ability to travel throughout ES
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