Senior Learning Strategist

About Avalere Health
Established in 2001, Avalere Health is a purposefully built commercialization partner for the biopharmaceutical, medical technology, and wellness industries.
Our 1,500+ experts combine their knowledge and expertise across our core disciplines — Consulting; Medical; Policy; Value, Evidence, and Access; Marketing; and Digital Experience Technology — to create the connections that make better health happen.
Avalere Health partners with its clients to navigate the complex and rapidly changing healthcare ecosystem. Together, our experts help clients connect patients with life-changing therapies, realizing the potential of strategies and solutions to accelerate innovation that improves lives.
We live and breathe our five values in everything we do: We are authentic. We act with integrity. We value difference. We play for the team. We enjoy the journey. At Avalere Health, we imagine a healthier world and create the connections to make it happen.
Salary: Competitive + excellent benefits (bonus, pension, healthcare, life cover etc.)
Location: Remote (UK)
About The Role
The Senior Learning Strategist at Avalere Health has a well-developed holistic-learning “point of view.” You can articulate and implement the development of learning strategies and/or curricula resulting in the delivery of learning programs, experiences, assets, and processes that are based on the client’s strategic objectives.
As a Senior Learning Strategist, the crux of the role lies in collaborating with the client, discovering and identifying their needs and recommending a holistic solution for learning and content delivery which is not just feasible, but also innovative and aligns with the brand strategic imperatives and current market trends.
You'll work very closely with the sales account team to deliver prospective clients with sales training presentations and proposals with the best possible business/learning solutions for the client to help win the business and/or grow the account.
What You'll Do

• Analyse client needs and recommend innovative solutions for learning and content delivery.
• Consult with clients on suggested approaches and tools.
• Propose and design creative instructional direction for new and existing clients.
• Work with Instructional Designers and writers to outline and conceive learning/training plans and design documents, and strategies and solutions for clients while determining how to implement these key learning components.
• Help win new and repeat business by making sure that the client’s experience with Avalere Health is a positive one, and that Avalere Health is perceived as a “best in class” learning partner.
• Work with the sales account team to develop an understanding of the prospective and current client’s needs/priorities/initiatives and provide them with content and consultative learning solutions that can support and enhance their strategic business objectives.
• Participate as the learning and instructional design expert, working with the Instructional Designers and/or sales account team to write and refine presentations, proposals and learning/training plans.
• Provide learning best practices, lessons learning from past client experiences, and general coaching.
• Identify gaps to determine what client learning content needs to be updated and/or developed.
• Review any existing client content and understand how new content should be integrated.
• Analyse post-training results to create continuous learning/training designs including content, modalities of training delivery and evaluation methods.
• Maintain close contact with client to ensure strategic business objectives are being met through the design and implementation of on-going learning solutions/training plans.
  

About You

• Bachelor's degree required, preferably in Education, Instructional Design or Adult Learning, or Life Sciences with adult learning principles acquired through experience. Master's degree in Education, Instructional Design or Adult Learning, preferred but not required.
• Minimum 3 years designing and writing learning solutions in an agency setting
• At least 5 years of experience working as a Learning Strategist with Pharmaceutical and Biotech Sales Training clients
• Demonstration of a thorough understanding of the pharma sales training environment is preferred
• Knowledge of adult learning, training, testing, educational concepts, program design, implementation, and performance measurement is preferred.
• Strong knowledge of the pharmaceutical promotional compliance environment and subsequent policies.
• Solutions oriented with a demonstrated talent for positively implementing value added programs.
• Strong client-facing skills with the ability to listen intently and ask in-depth questions to determine client needs, foster trust and build long-term client relationships and partnerships.
• Ability to travel to client meetings (periodically)
  

What We Can Offer
Avalere Health aims to empower every employee to develop and thrive. We empower our team with the tools, skills, and support needed to think differently and to solve healthcare’s most complex challenges.
At the center of our people-led culture is our Career Experience team, whose mission is to provide every employee with a purpose-driven career. We also pride ourselves on our personalized learning approach to ensure you receive the training you need to help you grow within the company and take advantage of our global scale and scope.
We are committed to embedding diversity and inclusion in every aspect of our organization. We encourage diversity of thought, inclusive behavior, and break down barriers to ensure every individual feels valued and encouraged to contribute their unique abilities and potential. As part of our commitment to building a healthier world, every employee is also encouraged to participate in our community engagement efforts, which support a wide range of healthcare programs and wellbeing causes worldwide.
We have city hubs across North America, Europe, and Asia, geared toward collaborating, training, socializing, and coming together as a global organization while maintaining and fully supporting flexible working practices. Our compensation and benefits package is benchmarked across the industry. We offer a generous company pension/retirement plan, private medical insurance, comprehensive employee wellbeing initiatives, compelling time-off policy, plus many other excellent employee benefits.
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