Associate Director, Global Medical Training

Location Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Job ID R-258801 Date posted 24/08/2026

As Associate Director, Global Medical Training, you will shape how Global Medical teams build capability, apply science, and win through learning. This is a strategic performance role with strong accountability for execution. You will turn business priorities, therapeutic area needs, and field realities into focused learning strategies that improve readiness, confidence, and execution across Alexion Medical Affairs.

You will work across the matrix as the learning lead for assigned therapeutic areas within a Disease Area Group (DAG), partnering closely with the Director of Learning, Therapeutic Area leaders, Field Medical Excellence, Medical Communications, digital partners, and GMTFC colleagues. Reporting to the Head of Global Medical Training and Field Capabilities, you will operate within a DAG pod led by the Director. The Director sets the overall DAG direction and priorities; you will own the capability strategy and learning roadmap for your assigned areas and lead delivery against them.

You will make evidence-based choices about where learning, AI-enabled tools, coaching, or workflow support will create the greatest impact. You will embed GMTFC's Learn to Win philosophy and the AI30 ambition into practical, measurable learning in the flow of work, helping external-facing teams deliver stronger scientific exchange, faster readiness, and greater value for patients and healthcare systems.

You will be responsible for:

• Capability strategy and planning: Own the capability strategy and learning roadmap for assigned therapeutic areas, aligned with the Director's overall DAG priorities. Lead performance conversations, identify the real capability gap, and recommend the right intervention.
• Training programme leadership: Own the design and delivery of high-impact scientific learning for global, regional, and local medical teams. Use approved AI-enabled tools to accelerate development, personalise learning, and improve the learner experience while protecting scientific, medical, and compliance standards.
• Execution and management: Drive disciplined execution from concept to deployment. Manage timelines, quality, accessibility, compliance, assigned project budgets, and external partners to deliver against business priorities.
• Cross-functional leadership: Lead complex cross-functional capability initiatives and act as a connector across Medical, Clinical, Field Medical, Commercial, Digital, Content, and external partners. Align to shared priorities, reduce duplication, and scale reusable solutions.
• Stakeholder partnership: Act as a strategic capability partner to Therapeutic Area leaders and senior stakeholders, providing clear recommendations on capability priorities, learning investment, and performance improvement opportunities.
• Evaluation and impact: Measure confidence, application, behaviour change, customer value, and business relevance, not only completion and attendance. Use data, learner feedback, and stakeholder input to improve strategy and impact.
• Knowledge and content management: Build a clear approach for learning assets so teams can find, trust, reuse, and adapt approved content quickly. Keep materials current, relevant, and accessible through approved platforms.
• Therapeutic area expertise: Build curricula that help teams master the disease state, patient journey, therapeutic landscape, clinical and real-world evidence, and the capabilities needed to communicate science with clarity and confidence.
• Learning experience innovation: Use adult learning principles, behavioural science, learner insight, and approved AI-enabled tools to create blended, interactive, and adaptive learning that supports performance in the flow of work.
• Content development: Partner with external providers and internal content creators to produce innovative, compliant, and scientifically robust learning solutions. Maintain a current library of approved, reusable learning assets.
• Enterprise contribution: Contribute to enterprise capability initiatives, including responsible adoption of AI-enabled approaches that improve learning effectiveness and performance across Medical Affairs.
• Communication excellence: Communicate with clarity and purpose to build awareness, drive adoption, and support pull-through of learning resources and capability initiatives.

You will need to have:

• MD, PhD, PharmD, MSc, or B.A./B.S. in a scientific discipline with appropriate experience.
• 8+ years of experience in Medical Affairs, scientific training, field medical excellence, learning and development, clinical development, or a related biopharmaceutical function, including experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives.
• Experience working in a matrixed global organisation and influencing senior stakeholders to deliver strong results.
• Experience managing external partners, project resources, and assigned budgets.
• Understanding of clinical research, clinical development, Medical Affairs, market access, and outcomes research.
• Knowledge of the scientific and capability needs of healthcare professionals, including physicians, nurses, pharmacists, researchers, and research associates.
• Proven ability to build engaging learning solutions using adult learning principles, reinforcement, performance support, and evaluation to drive measurable impact.
• Confidence using approved AI-enabled tools, digital learning platforms, authoring tools, and learning analytics responsibly.
• Ability to travel where appropriate, for example for pre-congress training.

We would prefer for you to have:

• An advanced scientific degree.
• Experience embedding digital transformation, AI-enabled workflows, or learning workbench tools into a global learning and development function.
• Experience in instructional design, content management, learning technology, AI-supported content workflows, and evaluation of learning impact.
• Medical Affairs experience, including field medical, clinical development, and KOL management.
• Experience in global launch preparation and readiness.

Date Posted

25-ago-2026 Closing Date

07-sept-2026 Alexion is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging where every single person can belong because of their uniqueness. The Company will not make decisions about employment, training, compensation, promotion, and other terms and conditions of employment based on race, color, religion, creed or lack thereof, sex, sexual orientation, age, ancestry, national origin, ethnicity, citizenship status, marital status, pregnancy, (including childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), parental status (including adoption or surrogacy), military status, protected veteran status, disability, medical condition, gender identity or expression, genetic information, mental illness or other characteristics protected by law. Alexion provides reasonable accommodations to meet the needs of candidates and employees. To begin an interactive dialogue with Alexion regarding an accommodation, please contact accommodations@Alexion.com. Alexion participates in E-Verify.