Associate Director Leadership Development

Associate Director of Leadership Development

Would you like to join our team as an Associate Director of Leadership Development? We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Leadership Development (LD)/Learning/Organization Development professional. This role requires a strategic mindset and pragmatic behaviors, valuing outcomes over process, to support analysis and planning of both clearly defined and ambiguous needs, adaptation to change, collaboration, and innovation.

Become part of our Talent and Transformation team, where we strive to enhance the strength, depth, diversity and impact of our senior leaders, deliver prioritized business improvement work which optimizes the “whole system” of the organization, build a highly engaged, purpose-driven organization in which all our people are inspired and enabled to do their best work.

• Partner in the diagnosis and address complex leadership challenges at the enterprise or division level, in service of embedding and building progress against a framework of leadership skill and expectations to drive company strategy and accelerate business transformation.
• Drive outcomes in consultative topics for the business, focusing on leadership skill frameworks across various leadership subsets/populations.
• Identify key areas of intervention, collaborating with partners across talent management, leadership engagement, strategy, organizational development, DEI & Culture, learning, etc., to bring intervention, skill enhancement, and content to develop and enhance skills required for leaders.
• Collaborate with talent assessment/management and data insights colleagues to apply talent management assessments, emerging data and trends, and frameworks as a key driver to enhance leadership skill to maximize impact for the company and strengthen talent/leadership pipeline.
• Deliver the development and implementation of high-quality enterprise-wide leadership development (LD) approaches to reinforce leaders' application and understanding of expectations.
• Deliver content with colleagues in the LD community and/or external partners for use across the company.
• Work in an integrated and collaborative way with business leaders, their teams, HR, and other functional colleagues to address business and leadership development challenges, considering company strategy.
• Support diagnosis of complex Leadership Development challenges and opportunities at the enterprise or division level relative to the area of focus.
• Design and deliver outcome-focused Leadership Development in co-creation with selected partners (both internal and external).
• Contribute to the collective capability development of LD as an active member of the LD and HR community in support of business needs.

• University degree in social science / psychology / organizational design / business degree or equivalent. MBA/MSc beneficial but not essential.
• Many years of leadership development experience, including complex intervention design at senior levels within an organization, supported by broader consulting in leadership development, talent, organizational design, strategy, or change management expertise areas.
• Experience in large-scale, complex leadership development/change management interventions or business improvement projects.
• Experience in program execution, program measurement and analytics, and delivery.
• Experience with executive engagement and facilitation, strong influencing ability through consulting, communication, and relationship building skills.
• Experience working in international and global project teams combined with the ability and confidence to work in high-ambiguity environments and coach senior leaders.
• Analytical and conceptual skills, combined with ability to implement to business outcomes.
• Collaboration and networking with the key partnering communities and other stakeholders.

• Life science industry expertise.
• Previous experience in management consulting or as HR/PO Business partner.