[Hiring] Medical Education Manager @Abbott Laboratories

Role Description

We are seeking a Medical Education Manager - Coronary for our Vascular division. This role is fully REMOTE. Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease.

The Medical Education (Med Ed) Manager is responsible for:

• Developing, implementing, and maintaining Medical Education programs.
• Managing Key Opinion Leader (KOL) relationships.
• Maintaining Internal and External Stakeholder relationships.
• Ensuring alignment with the Med Ed strategy and adapting to changes as necessary.
• Providing guidance and clinical expertise to the Medical Education Support team.
• Coordinating with peers and managing vendor relationships.
• Collaborating with various departments and stakeholders to ensure successful program implementation and compliance with corporate and regulatory guidelines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Minimum 4 years of clinical and/or training experience in Cardiovascular 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 relationship building abilities necessary to partner with physicians and Internal/External stakeholders.
• Strong verbal and written communications with ability to effectively communicate at multiple levels in the organization.
• Ability to multitask, prioritize, and meet deadlines in a timely manner.

Requirements

• Program Alignment: Align all programs with the Med Ed strategy and adapt to changes as appropriate.
• 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 physician Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs), internal and external stakeholders, and vendors; collaborate with field staff to determine current needs in the field for new program development.
• Program Maintenance: Maintain existing programs by metrics and follow-up; update course content as required.
• 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, Medical Affairs, 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.
• Business-related travel: 50%, some weekend travel required.

Benefits

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career of which you dream.
• 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.