Medical Education Manager, Program Development

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow your dream career.

• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.

• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution

• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.

• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.

• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease. Our extensive portfolio includes drug-eluting stents, guide wires, balloon dilatation catheters, imaging catheters and software, vessel closure devices, peripheral stents, thrombectomy catheters and atherectomy devices.

We currently have an opportunity available for a Medical Education Manager, Program Development. The Medical Education (Med Ed) Manager is responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining medical education programs. This role ensures alignment with the Med Ed strategy and adapts to changes as necessary. The Med Ed Manager provides guidance and clinical expertise to the Education Support team, coordinates with peers, and manages vendor relationships. This position requires collaboration with various departments and stakeholders to ensure successful program implementation and compliance with corporate and regulatory guidelines.

What You'll Do

• Program Development and Alignment: Develop new medical education programs; align all programs with the Med Ed strategy and adapt to changes as appropriate. Work with marketing/production to create promotional materials for current and new programs to grow internal and external awareness; photograph/videos of current/future Med Ed events to include description of educational opportunities as well as team and customer testimonials

• Team Guidance and Supervision: Provide guidance and clinical expertise to the Education Support team; offer feedback to ensure successful program implementation.

• Coordination and Collaboration: Coordinate with Medical Education Management peers; manage and partner collaboratively with vendors; collaborate with field staff to determine current needs in the field for new program development. Cross divisional collaboration for new program development (EP, CRM, SH, HF) to create interdisciplinary educational opportunities.

• Program Maintenance: Maintain existing programs by metrics and follow-up; update course content as required. Work with Med Ed Liaison and support team to ensure alignment in event goals, messaging and expectations.  Work with local field teams to equip them to promote and support local educational programs

• Compliance and Tracking: Work with department management to ensure programs remain compliant with Abbott Corporate Guidelines and regulatory guidelines; maintain tracking of training and compliance activities.

• Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with faculty and manage relationships; collaborate with Product Marketing, Marketing Services, other geography marketing leaders, local sales, and marketing to develop tools, messages, data, programs, systems, services, and behaviors related to programs; update sales leadership on existing and future programs.

• Communication and Collaboration: Maintain positive and cooperative communications and collaboration with all levels of employees, customers, contractors, and vendors.

• Continuous Improvement: Drive continuous improvement and development, implementation, and tracking of business best practices; evaluate the effectiveness of training materials and programs on a continuous basis; capture and share program metrics.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree and work experience (4-6 years minimum)

• 3-5+ years of clinical and/or training experience in Cardiovascular and/or Endovascular Therapy area preferred or equivalent sales and/or marketing experience

• Strong organizational and follow-up skills, as well as attention to detail

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

• Strong verbal and written communications with ability to effectively communicate at multiple levels in the organization

     

The base pay for this position is

$97,300.00 – $194,700.00

In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

     

JOB FAMILY:

Sales Support & Administration

     

DIVISION:

AVD Vascular

        

LOCATION:

United States of America : Remote

     

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

     

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

     

TRAVEL:

Yes, 50 % of the Time

     

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

Not Applicable

     

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:

Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)

     

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

     

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