Director - Sales Excellence Training

For Current Gilead Employees and Contractors:Please log onto your Internal Career Site to apply for this job.At Gilead, we’re creating a healthier world for all people. For more than 35 years, we’ve tackled diseases such as HIV, viral hepatitis, COVID-19 and cancer – working relentlessly to develop therapies that help improve lives and to ensure access to these therapies across the globe. We continue to fight against the world’s biggest health challenges, and our mission requires collaboration, determination and a relentless drive to make a difference.Every member of Gilead’s team plays a critical role in the discovery and development of life-changing scientific innovations. Our employees are our greatest asset as we work to achieve our bold ambitions, and we’re looking for the next wave of passionate and ambitious people ready to make a direct impact. Join Gilead and help create possible, together.Job DescriptionDirector - Sales Excellence TrainingLocation: Stockley Park, UKGilead's mission is to discover, develop, and deliver therapies that will improve the lives of patients with life-threatening illnesses worldwide.As the Director of Sales Excellence Training reporting to the Senior Director, the Global Commercialization Training Centre of Excellence will lead all sales excellence aspects, including sales competencies, selling model, selling skills, sales training, and coaching skills for sales managers. This team will design and deliver global training content and conduct training for all affiliate CL&D employees, including those in the US. The candidate will be accountable for competency creation, conducting global training needs assessments, design, development, delivery, and evaluation.The successful leader will be a dynamic, experienced individual with a strong track record of team leadership experience across various settings and topics in the pharmaceutical or biopharmaceutical industry. They should have the proven ability to lead a teamand manage complex projects effectively, influence stakeholders without authority, effectively network across the organization, and communicate with senior leaders, all within a fast-moving, challenging, and dynamic Commercial environment.Essential Duties and Job Functions:Extensive experience in curriculum development, project management, executive presence, facilitation expertise and a deep understanding of adult learning principles.Advanced skills in people leadership and development Work with US (key contributor) and Affiliate Commercial Learning & Development to:Develop/enhance sales competency models that are fit-for-future.Develop an inventory of current regional/local selling models, selling skills, and sales coaching programs.Review the inventory of existing training to determine viability for reuse or adaptation at a global level, with a focus on optimizing/building what drives the most impact at scale.Collaborate with global stakeholders to define desired performance outcomes and the required behaviours, skills, and knowledge needed by different roles to deliver them.Determine content changes required for existing training curricula or work with external vendors to design and build new global content.Incorporate motivating, creative, and interactive training techniques to enhance the training experience and maximize learning and retention.Assure competencies and corresponding training to achieve competitiveness and operational excellence.Build a Sales Excellence Training plan.Once global training is developed, lead efforts to conduct regional/local training activities.Build relationships and engage with senior executives and functional stakeholders.Ensure that strategic plans, goals, and objectives are documented, communicated, reviewed, and evaluated continuously.Ensure stakeholders are engaged throughout training development, continuously incorporating feedback to ensure relevance and inclusion.Proactively engage with commercial groups to resolve issues, conflicts, and interdependenciesLead by example, respecting Gilead's core values of integrity, accountability, teamwork, excellence, and inclusion.Qualifications:Bachelor's Degree, Masters' Degree or PhD with significant proven experiencePoses the ability to establish credibility as a successful commercial leader.Demonstrated ability to develop and deliver compelling training to large audiences.Demonstrated ability to connect and align stakeholders of diverse backgrounds.Excellent influencing skills:  managing without direct power skills.Strong leadership and self-direction, comfort, and experience tackling very ambiguous and complex problemsStrong leadership skills with direct reportsExcellent interpersonal skills with the ability to lead, interact with, focus, negotiate, resolve conflict, and drive consensus among individuals from various cultures and disciplines.Strong executive presence with the ability to command respect through the exercise of sound business judgment and clear decision-making.Proven ability to lead collaborative and creative problem-solving and overcome resistance or barriers.Demonstrated ability to manage cross-functional teams or work groups and motivate and develop direct reports.Demonstrated excellence in program management, project management, change management, and managing multiple projects/priorities.Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.People Leader AccountabilitiesCreate Inclusion - knowing the business value of diverse teams, modelling inclusion, and embedding the value of diversity in the way they manage their teams.Develop Talent - understand the skills, experience, aspirations, and potential of their employees and coach them on current performance and future potential. They ensure employees are receiving the feedback and insight needed to grow, develop, and realize their purpose.Empower Teams - connect the team to the organization by aligning goals, purpose, and organizational objectives and holding them to account. They provide the support needed to remove barriers and connect their team to the broader ecosystem.The Gilead DifferenceEveryone at Gilead is motivated by our overarching mission to discover and deliver innovative therapies that improve patient care in areas of unmet medical needs. But it’s just what we do that gives us an edge, it’s how we do it. We expect everyone at Gilead to lead by example, guided by our core values:Integrity (always doing the right thing)Teamwork (collaborating in good faith)Excellence (working at a high level of commitment and capability)Accountability (taking personal responsibility)Inclusion (encouraging diversity)Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)It is the policy of Gilead Sciences, Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively "Gilead" or the "Company") to recruit select and employ the most qualified persons available for positions throughout the Company.  Except if otherwise provided by applicable law, all  employment actions relating to issues such as compensation, benefits, transfers, layoffs, returns from layoffs, company-sponsored training, education assistance, social and recreational programs are administered on a non-discriminatory basis (i.e. without regard to protected characteristics or prohibited grounds, which may include an individual’s gender, race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, creed, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, medical condition, veteran status, and age, unless such protection is prohibited by federal, state, municipal, provincial, local or other applicable laws).  Gilead also prohibits discrimination based on any other characteristics protected by applicable laws.For Current Gilead Employees and Contractors:Please log onto your Internal Career Site to apply for this job.SummaryLocation: United Kingdom - UxbridgeType: