Associate Director, Commercial Training and Development

The Associate Director, Commercial Training and Development will play a central role in building the capabilities of Amylyx customer-facing teams as the organization prepares for potential launches and future growth. Reporting to the Senior Director, Commercial Training and Development, this individual will lead the design, development, coordination, and delivery of onboarding, disease-state, product, customer engagement, business acumen, and advanced skills training. The role will work closely with Sales Leadership, Marketing, Market Access, Patient Services, Medical Affairs, Commercial Operations, Human Resources, Regulatory, Legal, and Compliance to translate commercial strategy and complex scientific information into practical learning experiences.

Responsibilities

Lead commercial learning programs for Sales and other customer-facing teams, including new-hire onboarding, home study, disease-state, product, launch-readiness, customer engagement, business acumen, and ongoing development programs; Translate strategy into observable field behavior by defining learning objectives, practice activities, assessments, certification standards, and coaching tools; Build role-relevant blended learning curricula; Support launch readiness for pre-launch and launch training workstreams; Partner across the organization to identify training needs, establish learning priorities, align content, and coordinate delivery; Manage content development and review, including training plans, presentations, facilitator guides, assessments, job aids, and coordination through Amylyx review processes; Manage external partners and projects, including training agencies, facilitators, consultants, technology partners, and vendors; Evaluate readiness and improve performance using learner assessments, certification results, manager feedback, field visits, and stakeholder input

Requirements

Bachelor's degree and 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 in areas such as disease state, clinical data, product knowledge, selling skills, customer engagement, business acumen, market access, launch readiness, or leadership development; 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 in a fast-moving environment; 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

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 where the individual must both set direction and personally execute