Customer-Facing Learning & Development Lead UK & Ireland in Reading

As Customer Facing Learning & Development Lead UK & Ireland within our Customer Facing Learning & Development team, you'll drive the learning strategy that empowers our customer-facing teams across the UK & Ireland to excel. This is a strategic business partner role where you'll lead a team, manage budgets, and translate global L&D objectives into impactful local learning programs—from product launches and onboarding to certification and capability building. You'll work at the intersection of business strategy and people development, ensuring our teams have the skills and knowledge to deliver excellence while meeting compliance and audit standards.

Responsibilities

• Partner with global learning teams and local business stakeholders to design and deliver learning strategies that support product launches, onboarding programs, and capability building initiatives.
• Ensure all customer-facing employees meet training, certification, and compliance requirements, maintaining readiness for internal audits.
• Create and manage the local learning calendar, balancing business priorities with efficient scheduling to minimize time away from core responsibilities.
• Deliver engaging face-to-face and virtual training sessions as a qualified trainer, certifying customer-facing employees on key programs.
• Monitor training effectiveness through performance indicators and implement improvements based on insights and feedback.
• Gather local learning needs and collaborate with global teams, vendors, and compliance partners to translate business goals into practical, impactful learning solutions.
• Drive meaningful impact at global scale: our medicines reach more than 100 million people each year.
• Be part of a simpler, digital-and-AI-powered business that’s rethinking how we work and engage with the world.
• Turn bold ideas into breakthrough launches, with multiple new therapies planned through 2030 and beyond.
• Stretch your career in a development playground, with opportunities across functions, regions, and the entire product lifecycle.
• Work in a place that combines global scale with local expertise, backed by a strong culture of collaboration and shared purpose.
• Contribute to innovations that improve outcomes, relieve pressure on healthcare systems, and expand access worldwide.
• Join a team that’s not just transforming treatment but asking what’s next and making it real.
• Join a workplace where diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core, with Employee Resource Groups and leadership programs that celebrate every voice.

Required Skills

• Strong leadership and people development skills – you can inspire, coach, and grow a team while managing budgets and making informed, data-driven decisions.
• Excellent stakeholder management abilities – you build productive partnerships across global teams, local business leaders, vendors, and compliance partners.
• Project management and coordination expertise – you can juggle multiple initiatives, timelines, and priorities while keeping everything on track.
• Confident facilitation skills – you deliver engaging, inclusive training sessions in both face-to-face and virtual settings.
• Fluency in English (written and spoken) – essential for collaborating with global teams and creating learning content.
• Comfortable with learning technology and platforms – you adapt quickly to new tools and use them effectively to enhance learning experiences.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, committed to offering interviews to candidates who request consideration under the Scheme and meet the minimum requirements for this role. If you have a disability and require adjustments for the interview process, please email us at diversity.recruitmentUKIE@sanofi.com. We are dedicated to ensuring an inclusive and supportive experience for all applicants. Visas for those who do not already have the right to work in the UK will be considered on a case-by-case basis according to business needs and resources.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.