Director, Commercial Training

How will your role help us transform hope into reality?

The Director, Commercial Training will be responsible for the strategy and execution of commercial Training. The scope of commercial training includes both field sales and non-sales field roles within the US Commercial business for AYVAKIT, our commercially approved therapy. This individual will use cross functional collaboration, influence, and decision-making authority to develop the strategy and tactically execute in a fast-paced environment. The Director, Commercial Training will report to the Senior Director Commercial Operations and serve as a key member of the extended field leadership team.

What will you do?

• Tactical Training Execution: You will have an opportunity to identify skill and capability gaps, create training content, and execute with cross functional partners to elevate field impact.  
• Strategic Leadership: You will be responsible for setting the vision and aligning learning initiatives with broader business priorities to enable growth. The expectation is to proactively identify and solve complex challenges that impact the direction of the business.
• Cross-Functional Influence: You will engage with commercial leaders and stakeholders across various departments (sales, marketing, market access, precision medicine, market access, & HR) to drive alignment and foster collaboration to develop and implement a field training strategy to support a growing commercial franchise. You will routinely negotiate and influence opinions of others to help move the business forward.
• Decision-Making Authority: You will lead enterprise-wide strategies, manage budgets, and make high-impact decisions to drive organizational and commercial success directly with our field organization. You will have accountability for final decisions on training strategy and execution while carefully considering perspectives of leadership and cross functional partners.
• Subject Matter Expert: In addition to being a commercial training subject matter expert, you will become a subject matter expert in Systemic Mastocytosis and AYVAKIT with the ability to lead from the front of the room with your knowledge, skill, coaching, and demonstration capability. The organization will lean on you for broader external commercial training awareness and benchmarking for building out capability needed for continued commercial growth.
• Engage with Field Team Members: You will engage with field team members ~15% of your time to gain a deeper understanding of real-world customer interactions to inform training plan strategy and execution. Your efforts and expertise will be recognized as a functional authority for commercial training across the organization with the ability integrate expertise across field & HQ functions.

What minimum qualifications do we require?

• 8+ years of relevant commercial experience in biotech/pharma, with a minimum of 4 years of experience in commercial training, or related functions.
• Bachelor’s degree required

What additional qualifications will make you a stronger candidate? 

• MBA or other advanced degree preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to operate with high degree of ownership and strong execution in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Strong authentic relationship builder cross functionally to create meaningful proactive two-way dialog around commercial training strategy and execution.
• Experience in specialty markets, particularly oncology, Allergy/Immunology, or rare diseases, preferred.
• Demonstrated success with project management and tactical execution of training plans.
• Ability to influence without authority and develop relationships with field-based teams.
• Comfortable with ambiguity; can drive towards implementation in a fast-paced and evolving environment.
• Highly collaborative; can comfortably work with a variety of colleagues and stakeholders to gain alignment.
• Relentlessly externally focused; keeps the patient at the center when making decisions.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills; comfortable delivering presentations to a wide range of stakeholders.
• Commitment to our Core Values: Patients First, Thoughtfulness, Urgency, Trust, Optimism.

Why Blueprint?

At Blueprint Medicines, we achieve impactful results because of our global crew of compassionate innovators – the Blue Crew. Through authentic relationships and our collective entrepreneurial spirit and action, we are each empowered to take ownership and execute with strategic prioritization. We put trust in our people to break through norms and conventions using their individual strengths and insights, which drives our success.

This is the place where the extraordinary becomes reality, and you could be part of it.

Patients are waiting. Are you ready to make the leap?

Equal Employment Opportunity

At Blueprint Medicines, we foster an environment of fair treatment and full participation for all of our employees as we navigate complex challenges in pursuing our mission to improve the lives of patients. We celebrate our unique differences and varied career and life experiences so that we can sustain our diverse culture and ensure everyone feels accepted. We are committed to non-discrimination, equal employment opportunity, as well as an inclusive recruitment process. We consider all qualified applicants based on merit and without regard to race, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal or state law.

We will make reasonable accommodations, absent undue hardship, for qualified individuals with known disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability in need of an accommodation with the application or recruiting process, please reach out to [email protected]. We are also an E-Verify Employer. For more information, please see our EEO Policy Statement, the E-Verify Participation Poster, the Right to Work Poster, and/or the EEO Know Your Rights Poster.

Blueprint Medicines is a global, fully integrated biopharmaceutical company that invents life-changing medicines. We seek to alleviate human suffering by solving important medical problems in two core focus areas: allergy/inflammation and oncology/hematology. Our approach begins by targeting the root causes of disease, using deep scientific knowledge in our core focus areas and drug discovery expertise across multiple therapeutic modalities. We have a proven track record of success with two approved medicines, including bringing our medicine to patients with systemic mastocytosis (SM) in the U.S. and Europe. Leveraging our established research, development, and commercial capability and infrastructure, we now aim to significantly scale our impact by advancing a broad pipeline of programs ranging from early science to advanced clinical trials in mast cell diseases including SM and chronic urticaria, breast cancer and other solid tumors.