Senior Manager, Medical Education

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:

Senior Manager, Medical Education

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.

The Opportunity

The Sr Medical Education Manager works with Medical Affairs leadership in fostering the growth and development of Medical Education in Infectious Disease (ID) Business. This role is based in Lake Forest, IL. It may also be based in Willis Tower (in Chicago, IL) depending on office space availability.

What You’ll Work On

The primary purpose of this role is to develop, implement, and manage education initiatives that align to and drive the business strategy of ID.  This is a manager role, with one direct report, and will have travel of up to 25% mostly domestic.

The person hired in this role will work closely with Medical Affairs leaders to align Medical Education initiatives that are developed, executed and measured for HCP engagement and impact.  They are also a key player in implementing and identifying business needs for Key Opinion Leaders (KOL) to deliver a strategic message for peer-to-peer programs and other programs such as Advisory Boards/Focus groups. This person will also manage professional service agreements within the scope of responsibilities.

The Sr Medical Education Manager understands and appreciates key opinion leaders and their role in Medical Education to support patient needs and product innovation for Abbott ID business. They are also responsible for integrating the business needs of ID with the potential talent pool of healthcare professionals in academia, institutions, and professional organizations/societies. In addition, they must be able to effectively communicate to healthcare professionals, foster and support the relationships and recommend approaches to most effectively leverage business needs with healthcare professionals via educational strategies.

What You’ll Work On

• Responsible for ensuring compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and Procedures for Medical education.

• Sets a vision for the role and provides innovation and creative solutions for Medical Education.

• Designs develops and executes the annual medical education plan.

• Understands key drivers/business impact and value of Medical Education activities.

• Facilitates periodic review of departmental procedures and recommends policy changes in response to both internal and external requests, industry standards and updated regulations and technology.

• Provides ongoing support in the area of process improvement.  Implements tools and establishes work processes to enable the Medical Education team to improve communication and the decision-making process with increased focus on critical tasks.  Recommends and implements innovative ways to improve project performance.

• Conducts ongoing review of staff and project assignments to ensure adequate resources are available to meet departmental goals.

• Provides subject matter expertise across in-house and external Medical Education activities.

• Anticipates potential problems within Med Ed program and create contingency plans and propose recommendations for management action.  Elevate potential changes in the re