Senior Director, Commercial Learning and Development and Onboarding

Overview In this role you will design and scale the commercial training strategy for Celldex’s first product launch, aligning learning across sales, marketing, medical affairs, and market access. You’ll build onboarding programs, partner with HR, and implement a robust training infrastructure to support a fast-moving launch. You will lead cross-functional content development, vendor management, and measurement of program impact to ensure readiness and ongoing effectiveness. This is a high-impact function that enables the commercial organization to execute with urgency and compliance in a dynamic biotech startup environment. Compensation / Benefitsbase salary plus annual discretionary bonuslong term incentive 401(k) with employer contributionhealth care and other insurance benefitspaid holidays and vacationsick days Responsibilities Design and execute the commercial training strategy for a first product launch across all commercial functions Develop onboarding programs for medical affairs, sales, marketing, and market access Partner with HR to integrate onboarding best practices into the Corporate Onboarding Program Create and deliver launch training curricula (disease state, product, competition, objection handling)Develop training materials, tools, and job aids with key stakeholders Coordinate live training events (national meetings, launch meetings, field rides)Select and manage external vendors (content, platforms, LMS)Establish training metrics and drive continuous improvement Ensure compliance with policies including promotional review and training documentation Serve as the point of contact for commercial training needs Build scalable training infrastructure (LMS, certification)Hire and develop the L&D team and lead matrixed stakeholders Provide training support for Physician Speaker Programs and Patient Advocacy programs Key requirements 10+ years in biotech/pharma commercial training or related roles Pre-launch experience strongly preferred Ability to create training from scratch in a fast-paced environment Vendor procurement and management experience Expert knowledge of adult learning principles and training effectiveness measures Excellent project management and communication skills Ability to travel up to ~35%Prior field leadership experience preferred; prior team leadership required Credibility with sales, marketing, market access, Medical Affairs, and HCP customers Experience in training within clinically-driven teams and innovative culturesstrong communicationcross-functional collaborationleadership and credibilityadult learning principlestraining effectiveness metricsLMS and training platforms