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The Director, Learning and Organizational Development owns Azurity Pharmaceuticals' Capability & Development Framework, designing and delivering the programs that build organizational capability across the colleague lifecycle. The Director is accountable for four of the framework's five pillars - management system fluency, Azurity-specific business training, employee self-development, and business acumen & critical thinking; compliance training is owned separately. Partnering with the Senior Leadership Team, subject-matter experts, and Colleague Experience Business Partners, the Director aligns learning strategy to business priorities and embeds a culture of continuous learning and enterprise thinking, blending instructional-design rigor with strategic vision to keep programs scalable, measurable, and impactful.

Key Roles & Responsibilities

Management System & Operational Discipline

• Own the curriculum and certification for Azurity's management system, including goal alignment (True North and cascading objectives), the performance-management cadence, Roles & Responsibilities deployment, and KPI-driven execution.
• Embed structured, root-cause problem-solving as the enterprise standard for decision-making and exception handling, supported by coursework, exemplars, and coaching with subject-matter experts.

Azurity-Specific Training

• Design and maintain the structured onboarding program (first 90 days) and annual certification on Azurity's strategy, portfolio, pipeline, and operating model.
• Curate SME-delivered content spanning the product portfolio, go-to-market model, and key functional topics, scaled through Lunch & Learns, podcasts, and cross-functional immersion.

Leadership & Employee Development

• Lead leadership-development and succession programs that build a strong internal talent pipeline across critical roles.
• Administer the Individual Development Plan (IDP) process, curated development pathways, mentorship, and LinkedIn Learning allocation in partnership with managers and Colleague Experience Business Partners.
• Steward company-sponsored external development and certification opportunities for engaged, high-performing colleagues.

Business Acumen & Critical Thinking

• Develop enterprise thinkers through case-based learning on real Azurity scenarios, covering financial literacy, value creation in pharma, and decision-making under uncertainty.
• Build practical thinking frameworks and hypothesis-driven approaches to problem solving, reinforced through leadership-led sessions and post-decision reviews.

Strategy, Measurement & Team Leadership

• Define the learning strategy, governance, and operating cadence for the Capability & Development Framework (excluding compliance training), and manage the associated budget and external vendor relationships.
• Establish metrics and dashboards for participation, completion, capability growth, and business impact, reporting outcomes regularly to HR and business leadership.
• Lead, coach, and develop the learning team and SME network, building scalable instructional-design and facilitation capability.

Skills & Capabilities

Leadership & Ways of Working

• Strategic thinker able to balance enterprise program design with hands-on facilitation.
• Highly credible with senior leaders; able to influence without authority and build trusted partnerships across functions.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, matrixed environment with evolving priorities.
• Solutions-oriented with strong change-management instincts and a bias toward action.

Skills/Experience

• High level of proficiency with A.I. enabled learning and organizational development platforms. 
• Demonstrated success designing, launching, and scaling enterprise learning programs and curricula, with strong instructional-design expertise.
• Experience deploying a management or operating system and structured problem-solving or continuous-improvement methodologies.
• Pharmaceutical or life sciences experience preferred, ideally within a multinational, matrixed organization.
• Proficiency with LMS and learning-technology platforms, including LinkedIn Learning and modern content-curation tools.
• Strong facilitation, coaching, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to engage SMEs and senior leaders as program partners.
• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Organizational Development, Business, or a related field required; Master's degree and/or relevant L&D/OD certification (e.g., ATD CPTD, SHRM) preferred.

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