Associate Director*

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Job Title: Associate Director, Sales Model and Sales Competency Training
Location: Remote
Duration: 6 Months Contract
PR: $40/hr - $47/hr on W2
 
Gilead's mission is to discover, develop, and deliver therapies that will improve the lives of patients with life-threatening illnesses worldwide. As the Associate Director, Sales Model and Sales Competency Training reporting to the Director of Sales Excellence Training will lead the development of the sales model and sales competencies, FCR training and pull-though globally.  This role will design and deliver global training content and conduct training for all affiliate CL&D employees, including those in the US. The candidate will be accountable for coaching excellence and written communication within the field coaching reports and in conjunction with sales model and sales competency. Conduct global training needs assessments, design, development, delivery, and evaluation.
 
Essential Duties and Job Functions:

• Coaching Excellence expertise
• Written communication and strong impact and influence skill set
• Extensive  experience in competency development and adoption
• Advanced skills in cross-functional collaboration and influence without authority.
• Work with US (key contributor) and Affiliate Commercial Learning & Development to:
• Implement a Coaching Excellence framework within Field Coaching
• Strong written communication and written coaching skills
• Create a strategy for linking training to data
• Develop/enhance sales competency models that are fit-for-future.
• Collaborate with global stakeholders to define desired performance outcomes and the required behaviors, skills, and knowledge needed by different roles to deliver them.
• Determine content changes required for existing training curricula or work with external vendors to design and build new global content.
• Incorporate motivating, creative, and interactive training techniques to enhance the training experience and maximize learning and retention.
• Once global training is developed, lead efforts to conduct regional/local training activities.
• Lead by example, respecting Gilead's core values of integrity, accountability, teamwork, excellence, and inclusion.

• Bachelor's Degree and Twelve Years' Experience OR Masters' Degree and Ten Years' Experience OR PhD and Eight Years' Experience Preferred Qualifications:
• Demonstrated excellence in program management, project management, change management, and managing multiple projects/priorities.
• Executive presence and ability to work with a variety of stakeholder levels
• Leading without authority and creating a path of innovative work
• Clear and concise written communication
• Proactive and autonomous learning
• Strong leadership and self-direction, comfort, and experience tackling very ambiguous and complex problems
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to lead, interact with, focus, negotiate, resolve conflict, and drive consensus among individuals from various cultures and disciplines.
• Proven ability to lead collaborative and creative problem-solving and overcome resistance or barriers.
• Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.