National Training Manager – Neuroscience Parkinson's Franchise

Overview

Company Description Abb Vie s mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people s lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.

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Job Description The National Training Manager for the Neuroscience Parkinson s Franchise will be instrumental in developing and leading training initiatives to support the commercial organization. This role requires a candidate with strong clinical aptitude and executive presence, capable of thriving in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities and time-sensitive deadlines. The individual should be comfortable operating amidst ambiguity but consistently perform at a high level of execution, grounded in strategic insight.

Regular communication with senior leadership and internal partners demands a high degree of emotional intelligence, organizational awareness, and adeptness in navigating internal processes to achieve targeted impacts.

• Maintain expert knowledge in relevant disease states, products, and therapeutic areas.
• Develop and implement training programs and initiatives with minimal oversight.
• Design and update curriculum to address the needs of the commercial organization.
• Collaborate with departments to ensure that training materials are accurate and compliant.
• Manage vendor relationships throughout content development and contract execution.
• Perform project management duties during the training content creation process.
• Organize training meetings, covering all aspects from planning to participant engagement.
• Partner with marketing and sales teams to align training materials with brand goals.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to provide effective, timely, and innovative training.
• Work with external partners to ensure delivery of best-in-class training solutions.
• Build trust and credibility with business partners through consistent, proven partnerships.
• Serve as a resource during sales meetings and through regular field engagement.
• Lead training sessions at national sales meetings and other pivotal events.
• Continuously develop facilitation skills to support the delivery of training content.
• Assess ongoing organizational training needs and suggest innovations for clinical and developmental competencies.

• Train Franchise Leadership & Marketers/ Global pipeline, Market Access & MSL Team & Senior Brand Technology colleagues, Train New Directors of Marketing, RD’s to existing pipeline
• Partner with marketing, sales leadership, Medical/Legal/Regulatory/Compliance, and other departments, as needed, to create and implement specific training material.
• Continuously assess training and development needs of the sales force and coordinate training resources for current and future needs.
• Draws from field sales knowledge and develops and nourishes relationships with field sales to provide sales training and marketing leadership with a clear understanding of field needs to support product positioning, address competitive promotional efforts, and to assess the success of the various communication tools.
• Assist, execute and pull-through the Franchise Annual Training Plan, with stakeholders and adjusted based on business needs.
• Contributes to stakeholder strategic imperatives and strategy (i.e. IBT Meetings, operations excellence meetings etc.).

• BA degree or higher is required and minimum of 5 years pharmaceutical, medical device/equipment, industry-related sales
• Preferred experience in training, marketing, or sales within the pharmaceutical/biotech sector.
• Preferred knowledge of relevant disease state and selling in that environment
• Experience with pathology and companion diagnostics is a plus.
• Familiarity with adult learning principles and training design is preferred.
• Exceptional collaboration skills with stakeholders at various…