Manager, Core & Diagnostic 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:

Job Title

Manager, Core & Dioagnostic 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.
• 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 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

We currently have an opportunity available for a Manager, Core & Diagnostic Education to join our Cardiac Rhythm Management division in Austin, TX. This is a fully On-Site.

As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, we focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats.

The Purpose
The Manager, Core & Diagnostics Education, CRM will provide leadership and vision on the development, planning, implementation, and tracking of a comprehensive and world-class training curriculum for CRM’s traditional core and diagnostic products/therapies.  The individual will be responsible for overseeing the technical and clinical education Abbott Field teams and of Healthcare Professionals (HCPs) in pursuit of the business unit’s overall strategy and goals.

This position operates on a global scale, necessitating an understanding of procedural nuances worldwide to proactively lead a team to develop streamlined training programs and content that promote a unified curriculum and ensure a consistent training experience for all participants. The role involves aligning Abbott CRM regions on a cohesive global curriculum that minimizes modifications to facilitate uniform and structured training.

Utilizing a fervent dedication to education and innovation, the candidate will employ the ADDIE framework to identify educational needs and craft programs for new and existing products/therapies within the core and diagnostic area. The candidate will also use leadership skills, project management skills, agility, and creativity, to partner with R&D, Marketing, Sales Leadership, Clinical and other senior members of the CRM organization to lead the educational process across this portion of the Abbott CRM portfolio.

THE STRATEGY YOU WILL LEAD

• Lead the vision, development, and deployment of a comprehensive and integrated, Global Training Curriculum for HCPs and Abbott Field teams that can be deployed in-person or virtually.
• Engage with Global Education peers to identify and integrate cutting edge training technologies to enable world-class training experiences.
• Partner with R&D, Up/Downstream Marketing, and Global Education leaders to capture training needs for upcoming project launches early in the development phase. 
• Develop training for new product launches.
• Ensure that new product launch training is integrated into existing training curriculum, and that content remains current at all times.
• Drive consistent use of ADDIE for all educational development and integrate with established marketing processes.

THE TEAM YOU WILL LEAD

• Manage a team of Trainers to develop training content and programs via the ADDIE process to train new hires, existing field team members, and HCPs.
• Build and develop a team of highly skilled individuals to design and execute high quality, effective and engaging adult learning.