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Insmed Incorporated

Director, Learning & Development

🇺🇸 Hybrid - Bridgewater, NJ

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $171K - $240K

💻 Learning & Development

🗓️ May 9th, 2025

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Insmed is hiring a Director, Learning & Development. This role focuses on driving the learning and development strategy to foster a continuous learning culture within the organization, with an emphasis on leadership development and cross-functional skills. The director designs and implements innovative learning experiences, partners with stakeholders to assess learning needs, and leads a team to achieve organizational learning goals.
 
Highlights 
  • Drive and implement organizational learning and development strategy.
  • Design, develop, and deliver engaging learning experiences using adult learning theory.
  • Lead, manage, and develop a high-performing team.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to bridge capability gaps.
  • Proficiency in Articulate 360, Vyond, Adobe Creative Suite, and more.
  • Salary range: $171,000 - $239,667 per year.
  • Requires a bachelor's degree and a minimum of 10 years HR experience, with 5+ in L&D.
  • Provides competitive benefits, including health benefits, equity awards, and ESPP.
  • Experience with Learning Management Systems, preferably Workday Learning.

Director, Learning & Development Full Description

Director, Learning & Development

Job Function Human Resources
Position Location (WD) : Location US-USA-NJ-Bridgewater
Salary Range $171,000 - $239,667 a year

Company Description
Insmed is a global biopharmaceutical company on a mission to transform the lives of patients living with serious and rare diseases. Our most valuable resource is our employees, and everything we do is motivated by a patients-first mentality. We are dedicated to growing our team with talented individuals from around the world who are willing to challenge the status quo, solve problems, and work collaboratively with a sense of urgency and compassion.

Guided by our core values of collaboration, accountability, passion, respect, and integrity, we aim to foster an inclusive, diverse, and flexible work environment, where our employees are recognized for leaning in and rolling up their sleeves. If you share our vision and want to work with the most dedicated people in the biopharma industry, come to Insmed to accelerate your career.

Overview
The Director, Learning & Development drives the L&D strategy to enable a culture of continuous learning and capability-building across the organization. This role leverages data, talent planning insights, and stakeholder feedback to diagnose learning needs of the organization, particularly in leadership development, cross-functional skills, and the cultivation of Global Core Competencies that define success across the organization. While shaping overall strategy and leading a team of two, the Director, Learning & Development is also actively designs and develops engaging, innovative, and impactful learning experiences and leadership curriculums. This role enables development planning, facilitates key organizational and leadership learning programs, and partners with the HR Business Partner team to provide resources and toolkits to support their individual client needs.

Responsibilities

Essential Role Responsibilities
  • Drive organizational L&D strategy to meet the needs of a growing organization, creating an innovative, need-specific curriculum; evaluate existing programs and introduce new programs as needed
  • Design, develop and implement the Insmed learning experience, applying adult learning theory and design thinking to design, develop, pilot and deliver engaging and effective learning experiences spanning the 70-20-10 model that enable organizational goals and strategy
  • Embrace Insmed’s leadership philosophy to lead a high-performing team
  • Collaborate with key business stakeholders to understand organizational needs and capability gaps
  • Guide leadership on development planning best practices, and provide resources to enable individuals across the organization to create robust, impactful development plans
  • Facilitate high engagement and effective workshops across the organization, both in-person and virtual sessions; seeking opportunities to engage employees across all regions and functions, ensuring opportunities regardless of role and location
  • Identify, evaluate and partner with external vendors and thought leaders to broaden curriculum and supplement internally developed programs to ensure subject matter expertise, industry best practices and innovative approaches are delivered through Insmed Learning Institute offerings
  • Utilize creativity and design skills to create course assets and communications that are engaging and compelling
  • Continuously innovate and improve learning design and approach by staying ahead of learning & development industry trends, tools, and technology, including AI
  • Analyze data, insights, and stakeholder feedback to ensure the organizational L&D strategy is data-driven and linked to  
  • Champion a culture of learning at Insmed, including support for the use of innovative learning experiences, such as social learning
  • Collaborate with HR Business Partner team to develop templates and workshops to leverage for large-scale client engagements; create toolkits and facilitate ‘train the trainerʼ sessions to enable scalable delivery of new content; work with Regional HR Business Partners to globalize training for varying cultures

Position Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Organization Development, Education, or other related field required
  • Minimum 10 years of Human Resources Experience required, including 5+ years of related Learning & Development experience; prior experience in Pharma and/or Biotech a plus
  • Experience designing, developing and facilitating leadership development programs and curriculums
  • Demonstrated experience designing and developing training programs and related learning assets in multiple synchronous and asynchronous modalities, including instructor-led learning, eLearning, and social learning
  • Experience managing, coaching, and developing direct reports while cultivating a high performing team
  • Experience designing learning solutions for a cross-functional, multi-level Global audience
  • Highly proficient in Articulate 360, Vyond, Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office 365 suite, and other learning/content development tools
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Highly effective facilitation skills, with experience facilitating learning experiences for all levels and across multiple modalities
  • Strong project management skills, with a proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
  • Knowledge of adult learning, instruction design methodology and tools, design thinking and current L&D trends
  • Exceptional attention to detail and follow through, with ability to be flexible and adapt to in a fast-paced, evolving environment
  • Ability to cultivate relationships, consult and collaborate across all levels and functions within a global organization
  • Ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality
  • Experience with Learning Management Systems or Learning Experience Systems; prior experience with Workday Learning a plus

Role supervises a team of twoUp to 10% travel, both domestic & international
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Salary Range
$171,000 - $239,667 a year

Compensation & Benefits
At Insmed, we’re committed to investing in every team member’s total well-being, now and in the future. Our benefit programs vary by country but we offer the following to all Insmed team members, regardless of geographic location:
  • Flexible approach to how we work
  • Health benefits and time-off plans
  • Competitive compensation package, including bonus 
  • Equity Awards (Long-Term Incentives)
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
 
For more information on U.S. benefits click here.
 
Additional Information
Insmed Incorporated is an Equal Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
 
Unsolicited resumes from agencies should not be forwarded to Insmed. Insmed will not be responsible for any fees arising from the use of resumes through this source. Insmed will only pay a fee to agencies if a formal agreement between Insmed and the agency has been established. The Human Resources department is responsible for all recruitment activities; please contact us directly to be considered for a formal agreement.
 
Insmed is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact us by email at TotalRewards@insmed.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Requests for accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address.
 
Applications are accepted for 5 calendar days from the date posted or until the position is filled.