Associate Director, Site Learning & Development

Position Summary

The Associate Director of Site Learning & Talent Development is a strategic leader responsible for influencing and executing the learning strategy across our biopharmaceutical manufacturing and vaccine operations site. This role sits at the intersection of regulatory compliance, human performance, and technological innovation. You will drive learner-centric design principles, oversee training curricula governance, and integrate cutting-edge Digital and AI solutions to optimize capability building and execution excellence.

A critical focus of this role is ensuring workforce readiness during new capital project launches, tech transfers and enterprise system implementations, ensuring right-first-time execution and sustained GxP compliance.

• Safety:
  Protect patients, people, plant, property, product and processes. Enable a safe, zero-injury workplace where all team members and colleagues are held accountable for returning home in as-good or better shape than when they arrived to work.
• Compliance & Quality:
  Ensure complete audit readiness by integrating GxP requirements into all learning solutions. Partner with Deviation Management and Quality Assurance to develop training strategies that effectively address Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPAs) and human performance deviations.
• Continuous Improvement:
  Champion a learning organization where we are better today than we were yesterday and have a plan to be better tomorrow than we are today. Fail fast, fail forward, learn quickly and adapt to ever-changing business needs.

• Safety:
  Protect patients, people, plant, property, product and processes. Enable a safe, zero-injury workplace where all team members and colleagues are held accountable for returning home in as-good or better shape than when they arrived to work.
• Compliance & Quality:
  Ensure complete audit readiness by integrating GxP requirements into all learning solutions. Partner with Deviation Management and Quality Assurance to develop training strategies that effectively address Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPAs) and human performance deviations.
• Continuous Improvement:
  Champion a learning organization where we are better today than we were yesterday and have a plan to be better tomorrow than we are today. Fail fast, fail forward, learn quickly and adapt to ever-changing business needs.

• Asset & System Strategy:
  Lead the learning strategy for new site builds, asset expansions, tech transfers and enterprise system rollouts, as well as major enhancements. Develop scalable onboarding and upskilling frameworks to ensure rapid workforce readiness prior to operational go-live.
• Learner-Centric Design:
  Champion human-centered design principles. Move beyond read-and-understand SOPs by designing experiential, role-based, and targeted training that respects the learner's operational workflow and cognitive load.
• Digital & AI Acumen:
  Pioneer the use of Digital and AI capabilities within the L&D ecosystem. Deploy adaptive learning technologies, AI-driven content curation, and immersive digital tools to accelerate time-to-proficiency.
• LMS Administration:
  Support site governance for the Learning Management System. Establish robust data integrity protocols, streamline curricula structures, and influence standard operating procedures for training assignments, management and reporting. Own the business process for maintaining learning plans through daily LMS management.
• People Development:
  Mentor and build a high-performing L&D team. Foster a culture of continuous development, upskilling team members and trainers in modern learning theories, data analytics, and performance consultation skills.

• Effectively establish, deepen and sustain key relationships with Site-level business leaders and mid-level managers to understand their business needs and related performance gaps; provide oversight and analysis when defining curricula requirements, and demonstrate an understanding of processes and methodology to provide appropriate learning solutions.
• Lead collaborative efforts with stakeholders to define desired performance outcomes; provide feedback and coaching on issues related to learning programs and policies.
• Identify performance needs and gaps and facilitate delivery of learning solutions to the business, when appropriate. May deliver training and/or support local SMEs who provide training, as needed.
• Remain current on learning and development related tools,…