Sr. Manager Product Training - TAVI (Remote)

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 your 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.
• 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 a 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 worldwide 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 the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life through the design and provision of device and management solutions for the treatment of STRUCTURAL HEART disease.  We aim to lead the markets we serve by requiring the solutions we offer customers to enable outcomes that advance the standard of care.

This senior manager position is responsible for leading a team to support Abbott’s US TAVI field and customer training programs along with collaborating on global TAVI training curriculum to consistently optimize procedural outcomes and efficiencies. This senior manager role will work closely with EMEA counterparts to build a single SOP/DOP for mandatory training curriculum and content. This position will also work closely with the Clinical Engineering and Medical Affairs for TAVI clinical trial training alignment. This position is US based and spends significant time in the US. Strong leadership and teamwork skills are required. The position requires strong program management experience and knowledge to integrate with US commercial leadership, EMEA and OUS training groups, R&D, and other cross functional teams. Prior training program management is desired.

What You’ll Work On

• Teamwork.
• Ability to work with other cross functional team members and global counterparts is imperative to ensure program management, communication, collaboration, alignment and implementation of training.
• Ability to work closely with US sales leadership for training program alignment to commercial educational needs.
• Leadership skills.
• Point person for cross functional teams to represent US training needs.
• Build a US-based TAVI national training team to ensure optimal outcomes and training program development.
• Ensure career plan and development for all direct reports.
• Interpersonal, Presentation, and Implementation Skills.
• Create alignment between global stake holders (training, R&D, clinical science, medical affairs, clinical operations, KOL investigators etc.) on training process, programs, and content.
• Present training program strategic updates.
• Create training program overview content and give direction for mandatory & supplemental training program content that subject matter experts complete.
• Program Management.
• Strategic planning to develop training programs that meet current field and customer learning goal needs.
• Responsible for procedural training SOP/DOP’s development, content/models/simulators, event-based training, local training.
• Budget forecasting and management.
• Analytics.
• Monitor product performance outcomes for additional training or product design input for trial sites.
• Content Creation.
• Development of global training curriculum for commercial and investigational devices. Working with KOL thought leaders, R&D, Training, Medical Affairs, Clinical Engineering to create new training content.
• Position Accountability/Scope: This manager position is accountable for leading the US TAVI field and customer training team to ensu