About this Role
At Biogen, the Associate Director, Site Training is responsible for leading the strategy, execution, and continuous improvement of training programs supporting RTP site operations. This role serves as a trusted business partner to site leadership, ensuring training programs, learning solutions, and certification processes meet regulatory requirements while enabling operational excellence. The Associate Director will drive innovation in learning, champion best practices, and develop a high-performing training organization that supports workforce capability and compliance.
What You'll Do
- Lead the overall site training strategy for RTP operations, ensuring alignment with business objectives and regulatory requirements.
- Partner with site leaders, subject matter experts, and learning professionals to assess development needs and implement scalable training solutions.
- Serve as a strategic advisor to manufacturing and technical operations leaders on learning, compliance, and workforce capability initiatives.
- Represent the training function during regulatory inspections, audits, and compliance reviews.
- Develop and monitor training effectiveness metrics, compliance KPIs, and certification programs to drive continuous improvement.
- Collaborate with external industry groups, consortiums, and learning partners to bring innovative practices and technologies into the training program.
- Drive consistency and standardization of training processes across functions while supporting site-specific business needs.
- Manage departmental budgets, program timelines, and training-related initiatives while ensuring adherence to policies and SOPs.
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of training professionals to achieve business objectives and support career growth.
Who You Are
You are a strategic leader who thrives in highly regulated manufacturing environments. You combine deep expertise in training and development with strong business acumen, enabling you to influence stakeholders, drive compliance, and build learning programs that improve organizational performance.
Required Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Learning, Psychology, Education, or a related field from an accredited college or university.
- 10+ years of relevant experience, including experience within a pharmaceutical, biotechnology, manufacturing, or other regulated industry.
- Experience developing, implementing, and/or evaluating training and learning programs.
- Previous leadership experience managing and developing teams.
- Knowledge of cGMP requirements and regulatory expectations related to training and personnel qualification.
- Experience managing training compliance programs, certification programs, and/or key performance metrics across multiple functions.
- Demonstrated ability to influence and partner effectively with senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Experience supporting regulatory inspections and audits.
Preferred Skills
- Experience supporting pharmaceutical or biotechnology manufacturing operations.
- Experience working with industry groups, professional organizations, or consortiums to advance training best practices.
- Knowledge of business process improvement, standardization, and workforce capability development.
- Experience leading site-wide or enterprise-level learning and development initiatives.
Additional Information
Base salary offered is determined through an analytical approach utilizing a combination of factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills & experience, job location, and internal equity.
Regular employees are eligible to receive both short term and long-term incentives, including cash bonus and equity incentive opportunities, designed to reward recent achievements and recognize your future potential based on individual, business unit and company performance.
In addition to compensation, Biogen offers a full and highly competitive range of benefits designed to support our employees’ and their families physical, financial, emotional, and social well-being; including, but not limited to:
- Medical, Dental, Vision, & Life insurances
- Fitness & Wellness programs including a fitness reimbursement
- Short- and Long-Term Disability insurance
- A minimum of 15 days of paid vacation and an additional end-of-year shutdown time off (Dec 26-Dec 31)
- Up to 12 company paid holidays + 3 paid days off for Personal Significance
- 80 hours of sick time per calendar year
- Paid Maternity and Parental Leave benefit
- 401(k) program participation with company matched contributions
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Tuition reimbursement of up to $10,000 per calendar year
- Employee Resource Groups participation
Why Biogen?
We are a global team with a commitment to excellence, and a pioneering spirit. As a mid-sized biotechnology company, we provide the stability and resources of a well-established business while fostering an environment where individual contributions make a significant impact. Our team encompasses some of the most talented and passionate achievers who have unparalleled opportunities for learning, growth, and expanding their skills. Above all, we work together to deliver life-changing medicines, with every role playing a vital part in our mission. Caring Deeply. Achieving Excellence. Changing Lives.
At Biogen, we are committed to building on our culture of inclusion and belonging that reflects the communities where we operate and the patients we serve. We know that diverse backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives make us a stronger and more innovative company, and we are focused on building teams where every employee feels empowered and inspired. Read on to learn more about our Biogen.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, race, color, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, religion, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. Biogen is an E-Verify Employer in the United States.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Learning, Psychology, Education, or related field
- 10+ years of relevant experience, including pharmaceutical, biotechnology, manufacturing, or other regulated industry
- Experience developing, implementing, and/or evaluating training and learning programs
- Previous leadership experience managing and developing teams
- Knowledge of cGMP requirements and regulatory expectations related to training and personnel qualification
- Experience managing training compliance programs, certification programs, and/or key performance metrics across multiple functions
- Demonstrated ability to influence and partner effectively with senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders
- Experience supporting regulatory inspections and audits
- Experience supporting pharmaceutical or biotechnology manufacturing operations
- Experience working with industry groups, professional organizations, or consortiums to advance training best practices
- Knowledge of business process improvement, standardization, and workforce capability development
- Experience leading site-wide or enterprise-level learning and development initiatives
Biogen Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Biogen and has not been reviewed or approved by Biogen.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is generally positioned as competitive and often perceived as fair across roles, with total compensation framed as strong when bonus and equity are included. Compensation sentiment is described as above-average overall, though it varies by function and business cycle.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity programs are repeatedly highlighted as a meaningful part of the total package, including stock programs and an employee stock purchase plan. Equity and bonus elements are portrayed as important contributors to feeling well rewarded beyond base pay.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits are described as distinctive, including a year-end shutdown and a paid sabbatical after extended tenure. Vacation, holidays, sick time, and personal-significance days are also presented as supportive of work-life needs.
Biogen Insights
What We Do
Through cutting-edge science and medicine, Biogen discovers, develops and delivers innovative therapies worldwide for people living with serious neurological and neurodegenerative diseases. Founded in 1978, Biogen is a pioneer in biotechnology and today the Company has the leading portfolio of medicines to treat multiple sclerosis, has introduced the first and only approved treatment for spinal muscular atrophy, and is at the forefront of neurology research for conditions including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Biogen also manufactures and commercializes biosimilars of advanced biologics. With approximately 7000 people worldwide, we are truly a global organization, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which is also home to our research operations. Our international headquarters are based in Zug, Switzerland and we have world-class manufacturing facilities in North Carolina and Denmark. We offer therapies globally through direct affiliate presence in 30 countries and a network of distribution partners in over 50 additional countries. For more information, please visit www.biogen.com. Follow us on social media – Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube.









