Associate Director, Commercial Training and Development

The role

The Associate Director, Commercial Training and Development will lead the design, development, and delivery of training programs for customer-facing teams. This role involves building curricula, managing agencies, and partnering across the organization to translate commercial strategy into learning experiences.

What you will do

• Lead commercial learning programs including onboarding, disease-state, product, and launch-readiness.
• Translate strategy into observable field behavior through learning objectives and assessments.
• Build role-relevant curricula including blended learning journeys.
• Support launch readiness by leading assigned commercial training workstreams.
• Partner across the organization to identify training needs and align content.
• Manage content development and review through applicable company processes.
• Manage external partners including training agencies, facilitators, and technology partners.
• Evaluate readiness and improve performance using assessments and stakeholder input.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• At least 8 years of relevant experience in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical-device, healthcare, commercial-training, or related industry
• At least 3 years of experience in commercial learning and development, sales training, field enablement, instructional design, sales leadership, or a related capability-building role
• Demonstrated experience developing and delivering pharmaceutical or biotechnology training
• Excellent live and virtual facilitation, presentation, communication, and workshop management skills
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple complex projects, external vendors, budgets, timelines, stakeholders, and review cycles
• Experience collaborating with Sales, Marketing, Medical Affairs, Market Access, Commercial Operations, Regulatory, Legal, Compliance, and Human Resources
• Understanding of pharmaceutical content-review requirements and experience coordinating training materials through medical, legal, regulatory, or promotional review
• Ability to travel to the Cambridge office, field locations, training programs, and company meetings as required
• Access to a work setting that enables meeting all requirements including privacy, reliable internet access, phone, and ability to video conference

Nice to have

• Prior pharmaceutical or biotechnology field-sales, sales-leadership, field-training, or account-management experience
• Experience supporting a launch, rare-disease or specialty-market field team, or an organization building its first commercial capability
• Experience with learning management systems, digital learning, virtual facilitation, simulation, AI-supported practice, certification, analytics, and field-coaching tools
• Experience establishing field-training programs in a small or rapidly growing organization

Benefits

• Competitive base pay
• Annual performance-based bonuses
• Equity awards
• Comprehensive benefits package

Before you apply

• Unable to hire employees who reside and/or work in certain states
• Currently not considering applicants from Alaska and Hawaii

About the company

Amylyx is a clinical-stage company focused on post-bariatric hypoglycemia (PBH), Wolfram syndrome, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The company has a mission to treat diseases with high unmet needs.