At AstraZeneca, we pride ourselves on crafting a collaborative culture that champions knowledge-sharing, ambitious thinking and innovation – ultimately providing employees with the opportunity to work across teams, functions and even the globe.
Recognizing the importance of individualized flexibility, our ways of working allow employees to balance personal and work commitments while ensuring we continue to create a strong culture of collaboration and teamwork by engaging face-to-face in our offices 3 days a week. Our head office and BlueSky Hub in downtown Toronto are purposely designed with collaboration in mind, providing space where teams can come together to strategize, brainstorm and connect on key projects.
Our dedication to sustainability is also central to our culture and part of what makes AstraZeneca a great place to work. We know the health of people, the planet and our business are interconnected which is why we’re taking ambitious action to tackle some of the biggest challenges of our time, from climate change to access to healthcare and disease prevention.
The Program Manager, reporting to the Director, Scientific Training, provides end-to-end support for an assigned Therapeutic Area (TA) or Capability focused team within the Oncology Learning & Capability Development (OL&CD) team. This position will serve as a strategic partner for the team’s daily operations by providing forward thinking, user focused process, and technology solutions that ensure the optimal user experience. Primary duties include project management, training evaluation and reporting, identifying budget effectiveness strategies, program logistics, as well as organizational development. The Program Manager will develop training solutions to improve the business and implement outstanding training programs for the AZ commercial field teams in line with business requirements.
The Program Manager will keep a forward-looking view into resource capacity and organizational ways of working to mitigate risk and facilitate strategic business decisions. The Program Manager must be independent and have the courage to do the right thing and work on tough problems. The Program Manager must be open-minded and clear in their direction, as well as personally committed to achieving the goals of the team.

ESSENTIAL EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE & SKILLS:

• 2+ years Project Management experience or equivalent
• Bachelors degree in a related field or equivalent
• Minimum of at least 1 accumulated year of a training or training related experience
• Experience with launch excellence curriculum planning including managing live and virtual events

DESIRED EXPERIENCE & SKILLS:

• Advanced degree in a related field
• Knowledge of instructional systems design preferred
• Experience with Therapeutic Area subject matter knowledge and/or application within Oncology
• Pharmaceutical, Biotech, Oncology Experience
• Experience in global markets

• Develops and executes learning and development initiatives, working with customers to enhance organizational performance. Ensures training programs support the evolving needs of the business and address new initiatives with an emphasis on current trends and practices.
• Develops and implements training curriculum aligning with core proficiencies and adult learning principles.
• Provides project management expertise for the OL&CD teams by identifying and tracking milestones, anticipating and managing program risks, informing key stakeholders of status and issues, coordinating and facilitating functional meetings and communications, and ensures central access to key planning documents and materials.
• Captures best practices and insights from other teams within OL&CD as well as external partners in an effort to optimize and improve the impact of our learning programs.
• Leads training content asset management for assigned team and the knowledge management of those materials in the OL&CD master repository. Serves as LMS lead administrator for assigned team.
• Works closely with multiple vendors during the creation of training materials to ensure all curricula are properly development and maintained as per AZ policies and guidelines.
• Collaborates with key cross functional partners to ensure training strategy and plan are aligned to business goals, objectives, and strategies. Conducts ongoing needs assessment and recommendations on gaps and innovations to be considered by the training teams.
• Leads post training event sustainment practices to include evaluations and assessments against identified objectives and is responsible for the report back to the business with clear recommendations on sustainment requirements.