About Summit:
Summit Therapeutics Inc. is a biopharmaceutical oncology company with a mission focused on improving quality of life, increasing potential duration of life, and resolving serious unmet medical needs. At Summit, we believe in building a team of world class professionals who are passionate about this mission, and it is our people who drive this mission to reality. Summit’s core values include integrity, passion for excellence, purposeful urgency, collaboration, and our commitment to people. Our employees are truly the heart and soul of our culture, and they are invaluable in shaping our journey toward excellence.
Summit’s team is inspired to touch and help change lives through Summit’s clinical studies in the field of oncology. Summit has multiple global Phase 3 clinical studies, including:
Non-small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)
HARMONi: Phase 3 clinical study which was intended to evaluate ivonescimab combined with chemotherapy compared to placebo plus chemotherapy in patients with EGFR-mutated, locally advanced or metastatic non-squamous NSCLC who were previously treated with a 3rd generation EGFR TKI.
HARMONi-3: Phase 3 clinical study which is intended to evaluate ivonescimab combined with chemotherapy compared to pembrolizumab combined with chemotherapy in patients with first-line metastatic NSCLC.
HARMONi-7: Phase 3 clinical study which is intended to evaluate ivonescimab monotherapy compared to pembrolizumab monotherapy in patients with first-line metastatic NSCLC.
Colorectal Cancer (CRC)
HARMONi-GI3: Phase 3 clinical study intended to evaluate ivonescimab in combination with chemotherapy compared with bevacizumab plus chemotherapy.
Ivonescimab is an investigational therapy not presently approved by any regulatory authority other than China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA). Summit is headquartered in Miami, Florida, and has additional offices in California, New Jersey, the UK, and Ireland.
Overview of Role:
We are seeking an experienced Director of Learning and Development (L&D) to lead our training and talent development efforts across the organization with a focus on systems and process. This individual will be responsible for designing, delivering and sustaining scalable, role-based training frameworks that integrates traditional learning and development with software, process and enterprise training. This role will report to the VP of HR and play a key role in shaping the learning culture at Summit, ensuring employees at all levels from new hires to senior leaders have access to meaningful and impactful development opportunities
The ideal candidate will have a strong background in adult education, organizational psychology, and a proven ability to translate HR data and trends into actionable learning strategies. This role is critical to enhancing workforce performance, improving onboarding and integration processes, and supporting our broader people and culture goals in a dynamic, fast moving, biotech environment.
Role and Responsibilities:
- Design and maintain standardized training curricula for enterprise systems and digital tools, which includes a comprehensive, scalable learning and development strategy aligned with organizational goals and regulatory requirements within the pharmaceutical industry.
- Partner with IT and Process Owners to translate system functionality into role-based training content and support system implementation upgrades and releases.
- Understand Summit processes and workflows and adapt training to ensure new managers know how to operate and lead within Summit.
- Lead the evaluation and adoption of innovative learning technologies, platforms, and methodologies, including digital, instructor-led, blended, and microlearning formats.
- Oversee and continuously improve the new hire onboarding and integration experience to ensure early engagement, role clarity, and cultural alignment.
- Collaborates with HR Business Partners, hiring managers, and functional leads to ensure onboarding programs are tailored to functional needs while maintaining consistency and compliance.
- Champion a culture of continuous learning and professional development across the organization.
- Manage the Summit University SharePoint platform, creating and updating learning modules and resources in collaboration with functional teams.
- Work with HR Business Partners and Functional Leaders to develop clear, competency-based career ladders for each functional area, providing employees with pathways for growth and development.
- Analyze HR metrics (e.g., performance, retention, engagement, skill gaps) to identify learning needs and prioritize training initiatives.
- Develop KPIs to measure learning impact, effectiveness, and ROI, and report regularly to executive leadership. Adjust content and delivery methods as needed to optimize learning outcomes.
- Design, implement, and evaluate training programs covering leadership development, compliance, technical skills, soft skills, and cross-functional capabilities.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Quality, Regulatory, Compliance, Commercial, R&D) to ensure role-specific training meets both business and regulatory needs.
- Stays informed about the latest trends in professional education
- All other duties as assigned
Experience, Education and Specialized Knowledge and Skills:
- Master’s degree in Adult Education, Organizational Psychology, Human Resources, or a related field.
- A minimum of 10+ years of progressive experience in learning and development, with at least 5 years in a leadership role.
- Experience in the pharmaceutical, biotech, or life sciences sector required.
- Strong software skills
- Proven experience using HR data and metrics to inform L&D strategy and drive measurable outcomes.
- Experience with Learning Management Systems (LMS) and eLearning platforms (course delivery, user management, tracking and reporting, certification and compliance, content management, accessibility and integration)
- Strong leadership and team management capabilities.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
- An analytical mindset with experience using data to guide decisions and demonstrate impact.
This is the pay for this position
Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor. The total compensation package for this position may also include bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable variable compensation.
Summit does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact Summit’s Talent Acquisition team at [email protected] to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to Summit.
Summit Therapeutics Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and takes pride in creating and maintaining diverse environment. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training or promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.
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What We Do
Summit Mission Statement: To build a viable, long-lasting health care organization that assumes full responsibility for designing, developing, trial execution and enrollment, regulatory submission and approval, as well as successful commercialization of patient, physician, caregiver, and societal-friendly medicinal therapy intended to: improve quality of life, increase potential duration of life, and resolve serious medical healthcare needs. To identify and control promising product candidates based on exceptional scientific development and administrational expertise, develop our products in a rapid, cost-efficient manner, and to engage commercialization and/or development partners when appropriate. We accomplish this by building a team of world class professional scientists and business administrators that apply their experience and knowledge to this mission. Team Summit exists to pose, strategize, and execute a path forward in medicinal therapeutic health care that places Summit in a well-deserved, top market share, leadership position. Team Summit assumes full responsibility for stimulating continuous expansion of knowledge, ability, capability, and well-being for all involved stakeholders and highly-valued shareholders. Summit was founded in 2003 and our shares are listed on the Nasdaq Global Market (symbol ‘SMMT’). We are headquartered in Miami, Florida, and we have additional offices in Palo Alto, California, Princeton, New Jersey, Oxford, UK, and Dublin, Ireland.
