The Alkermes Commercial Learning and Leadership Development (CL&LD) team is looking for someone who will lead the development of field training programs supporting Alkermes’ growing portfolio of mental health treatments. The successful candidate will be responsible for the full portfolio of Alkermes promoted products and Commercial field teams. This new position is ideal for someone who enjoys working in an entrepreneurial environment creating impactful, world class training programs that support sales force effectiveness.

Alkermes has adopted a hybrid working environment to support and meet the needs of employees and this role will operate in a flexible environment with 60% of time in the office and 40% from home.

Responsibilities

Key Duties:

Curriculum / Workshop Development 

• Deliver and evaluate training programs, curricula, and training materials for field representatives, account managers and field management

Facilitation

• Organize and facilitate field training programs, meetings (National & Regional) and the delivery of new materials
• Conduct training workshops on disease states, products, marketplaces, and contextual selling skills for all types of audiences

Internal Communication and Influence

• Prepare and deliver polished presentations in team setting and with upper management
• Represent department on projects
• Implement tactical direction of team projects
• Communicate with marketing, field leadership, and other key stakeholders to identify training requirements and develop specific training programs to achieve business objectives

Copy Clearance Committee (CCC) Support

• Learn CCC process and attend all respective CCC planning meetings
• Track and maintain content, including content expiration
• Partner with other departments to support CCC process approval, as needed

Vendor / Contract Management

• Support the identification, selection and day-to-day management of vendors as well as existing relationships and projects relating to field training (SOW and PO generation and vendor management)

Teamwork & Collaboration

• Establish solid relationships with internal and external contact at all levels
• Navigate organizational network proficiently
• Contribute effectively in team and cross-functional meetings

Budget Management

• Accountable for travel & expense (T&E) and specific project-based budget as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Education & Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree
• 8+ years of pharmaceutical/biotech/medical device sales experience

Preferred Skills and Knowledge Qualifications:

• Experience selling injectables and/or physician administered treatments in challenging reimbursement environments 
• Experience selling in the Psychiatry or Addiction markets 
• Experience leading direct reports
• Prior training experience (field or headquarters-based training)
• Building & executing training programs
• Experience in utilizing technology to engage field groups
• Demonstrated track record of success in sales
• Proven ability to create, develop & lead projects
• High level of initiative and ownership
• Demonstrated ability to work independently
• Exceptional communication, facilitation, and presentation skills
• In-depth understanding of sales & the sales process
• Team player able to develop rapport and credibility with key stakeholders
• Natural ability to flex & adapt in real time based on multiple channels of feedback
• Proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint

Travel Requirements:

• 60% travel

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About Us

Why join Team Alkermes?

Alkermes applies its deep neuroscience expertise to develop medicines designed to help people living with complex and difficult-to-treat psychiatric and neurological disorders. A fully-integrated, global biopharmaceutical company, headquartered in Ireland with U.S. locations in Massachusetts and Ohio, we are committed to pursuing great science, driven by deep compassion to make a real impact in the lives of patients. Alkermes has a portfolio of proprietary commercial products for the treatment of alcohol dependence, opioid dependence, schizophrenia and bipolar I disorder, and a pipeline of clinical and preclinical candidates in development for various neurological disorders, including narcolepsy.

Beyond our important mission of developing medicines to address unmet patient needs, we actively seek to foster a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging throughout our business. We strive to ensure that all voices are respected and valued, recognizing that our diversity of thought, background and perspective makes us stronger. We are proud to have been recognized as an employer of choice by many national organizations, including being certified as a Great Place to Work in the U.S. in 2024, honored as a Healthiest Employer in both Ohio and Massachusetts in 2023, a Best Place for Working Parents in 2023, and to have received the Bell Seal at the Platinum level for Workplace Mental Health by Mental Health America for three consecutive years (2021-2023). 

Alkermes, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any qualified applicant or employee because of race, creed, color, age, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender expression and identity, disability, genetic information, veteran status, military status, application for military service or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal law.  Alkermes also complies with all work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA.  Alkermes is an E-Verify employer.