Sr. Manager, Commercial Learning and Development - Orthopaedics

As a privately-owned, biopharmaceutical company, Ferring pioneers and delivers life-changing therapies that help people build families and live better lives. Our independence helps us cultivate an entrepreneurial spirit and long-term perspective that enables us to achieve growth and scale, while remaining agile and true to our ‘people first’ philosophy. Built on a 70-year plus commitment to science and research, Ferring is relentless in its pursuit of science that drives powerful discoveries and therapies to help people build families, stay healthy, and stand up to the world’s oldest enemy: disease.

The Senior Manager, Commercial Learning & Development – Orthopaedics will lead the design, development, facilitation, and measurement of commercial training programs supporting the Orthopaedics portfolio. This role is responsible for ensuring the field organization is fully prepared to execute brand strategy through effective onboarding, continuous learning, and launch excellence—most critically supporting the launch of a future product.

This position partners closely with Brand Marketing, Sales Leadership, Medical Affairs, Market Access, and Commercial Operations to identify learning needs, translate strategy into actionable training strategy, and deliver programs that enable compliant, high‑impact performance in the field. The role will support both new product launches and in‑line brands, while also overseeing large‑scale initiatives such as national meetings, plan‑of‑action meetings, and learning solutions around micro-learning and other pull through strategies.

The Senior Manager will provide training and coaching, conduct ongoing needs assessments, and leverage insights from field engagement to continuously evolve the learning strategy. This role also plays a key leadership role in preparing the organization for launch readiness, including disease state education, product knowledge, selling skills, and cross‑functional execution.

With Ferring, you will be joining a recognized leader, identified as one of “The World’s Most Innovative Companies” by Fast Company, and honored by Fortune with inclusion on its “Change the World List,” for addressing society’s unmet needs. Ferring US is also Great Places to Work® Certified, distinguishing it as one of the best companies to work for in the country.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and facilitation of product, disease state, marketplace, and selling skills training across all phases of the commercial learning lifecycle, including onboarding, continuous development, and launch execution.
• Own launch training strategy and execution for Orthopaedics, with direct accountability for preparing the field organization for the future launch brand, including curriculum development, national launch meetings, and post‑launch reinforcement
• Partner cross‑functionally with Marketing, Medical, Sales Leadership, Market Access, and Commercial Operations to conduct needs assessments and translate brand strategy into effective learning solutions.
• Project‑manage training curriculum development, including:
  • Gap and opportunity identification
  • Content creation and instructional design
  • Vendor selection and management
  • Budget oversight
  • Communication to key stakeholders
  • LMR Submission of workshops and content
• Collaborate with the Senior Director of Commercial Learning & Development and Instructional Design leadership to build and maintain long‑range learning curricula, including blended learning and e‑learning solutions aligned to Orthopaedics business objectives.
• Ensure standardization and governance of training processes, including curriculum management within LMS platform.
• Measure training effectiveness by incorporating metrics into program design and leveraging platforms such as LTW to evaluate outcomes and inform continuous improvement.
• Provide representative coaching, including:
  • New hire support
  • Targeted events to develop product knowledge and selling skills
  • Ongoing observation to stay current on marketplace dynamics
• Train and coach Area Trainers and field training partners to ensure consistent facilitation, effective gap identification, and high‑quality feedback for both new and tenured representatives.
• Support district, regional, and national training initiatives to address geographic and performance‑based learning needs.
• Lead training support for National Sales Meetings, POA meetings, and launch‑related commercial forums.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 5+ years of commercial training or learning & development experience within the pharmaceutical or medical device industry, preferred.
• Prior Orthopaedics or musculoskeletal experience strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated new product launch experience, including launch planning and execution for complex specialty products
• Previous sales experience within life sciences strongly preferred.
• Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously.
• Experience with commercial learning platforms such as LMS, Veeva, Micro learning system, or similar systems.
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills (Word, PowerPoint, Excel).
• Proven ability to collaborate cross‑functionally and influence without authority.
• Exceptional communication, facilitation, and leadership skills.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast‑paced, evolving commercial environment.

Ferring + you

At Ferring, we offer competitive total compensation along with an exceptional range of flexible benefits, personal support and tailored learning and development opportunities all designed to help you realize your full potential both in life and at work. From working hours that respect your lifestyle, a culture that is welcoming and equitable, and the chance to work with the industry’s most impressive people, these are just some of the ways we live our "People First" philosophy.

Our Compensation and Benefits

At Ferring, base salary is one part of our competitive total compensation and benefits package and is determined using a salary range. The base salary range for this role is $150,000 to $180,000 which is the reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role. The actual amount paid may differ based on non-discriminatory factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, education and primary work location. Additional compensation for this role will be provided based on competitive annual incentive compensation targets in the form of an annual bonus - payouts are based on individual and company performance.

Benefits for this role include: comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with a premium differential, inverse to base salary, to be paid by employees; a 401k plan and company match; short and long-term disability coverage; basic life insurance; wellness benefits; reimbursement for certain tuition expenses; sick time frontloaded yearly of 40 hours, or higher if state or local law requires; vacation time for full time employees to accrue between 112.5 and 150 hours yearly in the first four (4) years of employment, and additional accruals starting in the fifth (5th) year of employment; and 12 to 13 paid holidays per year. We are proud to offer paid parental leave subject to a minimum period of employment at Ferring.

Ferring is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local laws.

Join our team and your voice will be heard, and your contributions will be valued. If you love to come up with new ways to make a positive difference and see them through, you will fit right in.

We are proud to be an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer (including Disability/Protected Veterans). We maintain a drug-free workplace.