Senior Program Manager Global Training & 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:

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

With revenues of over $2 billion and strong double-digit growth, the Structural Heart division is well positioned to deliver its purpose of restoring health and improving 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 provide an improved benefit/risk profile as compared to existing standards of care; a performance threshold that, by definition, guides and ensures the productive output of our engineering, business development, and clinical research efforts result in outcomes that advance the standard of care.

The Senior Program Manager, Global Training and Medical Education role is critical to the strategic development, execution and delivery of comprehensive training and education programs for both Health Care Providers (HCP) and the SH Field Team, with a goal to advance the safe and effective use of all Abbott Structural Heart therapies (e.g. Transcatheter Mitral and Tricuspid Interventions, Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation, Cardiac Surgery and Surgical Interventions including Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion, Septal Occluders and PDA Closure). This critical position will have oversight for the global roll-out of the physician and field training curriculum, partnering with the Structural Heart Training Team franchise leaders and a global network of physicians to define the evolving procedural best practices and incorporating them into high-impact educational materials and programs that are used to effectively facilitate clinical trials, product launches, commercial execution and continuing medical education initiatives. This position will collaborate closely with Abbott Structural Heart leaders, key internal functions including Research & Development, Clinical, Medical Affairs, Regulatory, Global Marketing, Regional Marketing, Legal and Quality to strategically align medical education and training initiatives with key business strategies. The position reports directly to the Structural Heart Global Head of Professional Relations and Education.

What You’ll Work On

• Lead and facilitate comprehensive needs assessments of all SH therapies (e.g. Transcatheter Mitral and Tricuspid Interventions, Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation, Cardiac Surgery and Surgical Interventions including Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion, Septal Occluders and PDA Closure) to identify knowledge and performance gaps and design instructional interventions to affectively address identified needs and gaps.
• Employ proven instructional design methodology and adult learning principles to develop physician facing and field training curricula ensuring the safe and effective use of SH devices.
• Ensure key stakeholder engagement with SH Franchise Training leads and oversight of the development of Medical Education & Training plans, strategies and objectives to maximize the impact of SH's commitment to training health care providers in relevant fields (e.g., cardiac surgeons, interventional cardiologists, electrophysiologists, pediatric cardiologists, valve coo