Program Manager, Professional Education - Abbott Heart Failure

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:

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

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 the career you dream of .
• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
• 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.

Leading an active lifestyle is important to the many people we serve. In Abbott’s ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY & HEART FAILURE division, we’re advancing the treatment of heart and vascular disease through breakthrough medical technologies in EP/HF, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives. 

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

Our Program Manager of Professional Education has primary responsibility to develop the strategy and support the coordination of educational activities for Abbott customers and other external stakeholders.  This individual will be responsible for supporting Abbott heart failure educational priorities.  He/she will tactically execute on key programs to increase awareness and engagement with both patients and HCPs to drive consideration and adoption of Abbott heart failure solutions.  Activities include customer educational visits, sales training programs, national peer to peer (P2P) programs and all other training programs in collaboration with Marketing, Clinical, Sales, and the broader HF Education Team.  Skills in market development and the development of multi-channel educational strategies leveraging best practices in adult learning including developing curricula and content for continuing education modules, Learning Management System module creation and development, and content for local, national, and customer programs is essential.  This role will report to the Senior Manager of Professional Education Heart Failure Therapies.

Job Responsibilities:

• Manages and oversees the educational strategies related to activities, modules, and programs serving Abbott Heart Failure Therapies.
• Develop and execute effective education initiatives to drive market growth and adoption of assigned products with both patients and HCPs.  
• Able to design appropriate programs to educate and train HCPs to follow guideline-based management of Patient.
• Understand key market trends, barriers, customer insights, and competitive information to identify customer needs and education opportunities at local, regional, and national levels
• Leads, influences, coaches, cross-functional teams to enable successful educational activities for customers & other external stakeholders. Leverage expertise from within the organization to accomplish operational and training objectives.
• Partners cross-functionally with Marketing, Sales, Clinical, Program Management, Regulatory Clinical and other departments as needed to establish and lead the development of educational project priorities and allocate resources appropriately.
• Manage and implement short and long-term plans to ensure educational activities and programs are in place to meet business objectives and ensure alignment and coordination with appropriate functional partners.
• Develop and implement educational strategies using techniques such as e-learning, self-