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A Day in the Life

Position Description

We have an exciting opportunity for a Sr. Medical Affairs Specialist, focused on creating content to drive the Acute Care and Monitoring (ACM) Medical Education and Medical Science education strategy, designing and implementing strategic metric dashboards and reports, and managing strategic projects that align to ACM Medical Education and Medical Science. This individual will partner with team members, cross functional partners and business leaders to understand ACM Med Sci needs, identify process improvements, and implement changes. Project responsibilities will span multiple functional areas including Medical Education, Medical Science and HCP & Society Relations. This individual works under the direction of the ACM Director of Global Medical Science, Medical Education and Economics.

Position Responsibilities

• Influence the design of product education plans based on business strategy with a significant focus on functional results
• Design and influence creative and engaging HCP education programs, that are targeted, purposeful, and increase knowledge and skills. Content may include, but is not limited to presentations, brochures, and agendas
• Apply Adult Learning Theory and design principles (ADDIE) for all learning and development projects.
• Ensure timely updates to the course curricula to reflect changes in product offerings and market demands.
• Own and manage all phases of multiple projects for Medical Education, Medical Science and HCP & Society relations teams, and provide a single point of contact for each project. This may include defining project scope and objectives, along with the applicable detailed work plans and schedules.
• Represent and support Medical Science and Medical Education for Ad/Promo routing of materials through Veeva. This includes routing content, following up with all reviewers to ensure timely completion of materials, and scheduling of collaboration meetings with reviewers when needed. This will require working with all members of the Medical Science and Medical Education teams.
• Identify and provide Medical Science and Medical Education strategic metrics, as defined by the business, in dashboard and report structure
• Partner with HCP and Society relations manager to execute nomination, selection, and utilization review process
• Work collaboratively with marketing, clinical, medical education, medical science, and other cross-functional partners across ACM develop new processes, quality standards and increase efficiency of the team.
• Work in all systems that align to Medical Education, Medical Science, and HCP/Society engagement, including but not limited to AMP, Smartsheet, salesforce.com and Veeva
• Ensure medical education and medical science programs meet company and customer objectives
• Effectively communicate with various audience types including but not limited to medical education, sales training, marketing, regulatory, clinical, engineering, and field marketing managers
• Ensure personal understanding of all quality policy/system items that are personally applicable.  Follow all work/quality procedures to ensure quality system compliance and high-quality work

Position Responsibilities

• Exhibit strong communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Exhibit strong and project management skills.
• Exhibit strong time management skills.
• Be flexible and able to adapt to changing requirements and priorities.
• Ensures all activities are compliant with Quality System requirements.
• Performs duties in compliance with environmental, health and safety related site rules, policies, or governmental regulations.
• All other duties as assigned.
• Travel requirement: <30%

Preferred Qualifications

• Medical Industry experience preferred
• Strong oral, written and interpersonal communication skills
• Self-motivated to make recommendations and initiate assignments that will improve business processes
• Flexible work hours to support Medical Education, which may include evenings, nights, and weekends

• Excellent interpersonal skills.

Excellent writing, presentation, and communication skills.

• Proficient in the use of PC software applications including Microsoft Windows, Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

 Physical Job Requirements

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met