At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. This position is remote to enhance our competitive edge and expand our cross-functional collaboration efforts. This role will require 10 -15% of travel to enhance collaboration and ensure successful completion of projects.

Careers that Change Lives

This role will be responsible for creating & leading surgeon education strategies, initiatives, and programs for cranial and spinal therapies, procedures, and technologies, with a specific focus as the Medical Education Program Lead for the CST Visiting Clinician Program.  The Visiting Clinician Program (VCP) is Medtronic’s well established and reputable training program with a proven history of delivering powerful and impactful education experiences for surgeons.   In this role you will be a critical part of the Training and Education team, responsible for designing and evolving training strategies, planning and executing surgeon training events, faculty development / management, and ensuring seamless and holistic educational experiences that increase adoption of CST therapies, procedures, and technologies – driving impact for the Cranial and Spine Technologies (CST) organization and the healthcare providers and patients we serve.

As a highly visible and collaborative leader, you will partner closely with key business partners, cross-functional stakeholders, and surgeon partners to drive operational excellence, streamline processes, and deliver measurable improvements and innovation in educational programming.  This role is a unique opportunity to unlock the full potential of surgeon and industry collaboration to drive best in class education, directly supporting CST’s mission to elevate standards of care and improve patient outcomes.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

Medical Education Program Management

• Serve as the medical education program lead for the CST Visiting Clinician Program (VCP), responsible for all planning and execution activities for each training event in partnership with key stakeholders. Lead all logistical coordination & scheduling details for each training event across faculty, attendee, and internal involved parties.
• Faculty management activities specific to the program (selection, invitations, off-label trainings, faculty logistics, onsite experience, faculty payments, etc.)
• Oversee relationship management with Visiting Clinician Program Sites (surgeons and hospital administration staff) across the US and lead the evaluation process in identifying newly nominated sites & physicians based on establish criteria.
• Clear articulation of program goals, key learning objectives, measures of success, and program impact and effectiveness metrics.
• Drive operational excellence with internal systems and processes related to successful program planning and execution
• Program cost estimates, budget, and expense management
• Travel Requirement:  10-15%

Training and Education Strategy Development

• Partner with key stakeholders to develop and execute the medical education strategy and roadmap (strategies, tactics, and funding needs) to drive adoption of CST therapies, technologies, and procedures.
• Utilization of program impact metrics and data to validate and focus investments for future medical education initiatives. 

Faculty Selection, Development, and Management

• Lead all efforts related to HCP faculty evaluation, selection, onboarding & development through the controlled CST faculty selection process (leveraging your strategic experience to plan faculty utilization and engagement based on needs of business)
• Develop, manage, and sustain living HCP faculty roster

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

High School Diploma or equivalent with 8+ years of relevant experience in a clinical lab setting, clinical training, field sales/support in medical device, healthcare industry or equivalent experience (OR Associate's Degree with 6+ years experience OR Baccalaureate Degree with 4+ years experience).

Nice to Have

• Experience in education and training highly preferred
• Strong presentation skills
• Effective instructional design skills
• Clinical knowledge and experience of spine procedures and the integration of enabling technologies (navigation, robotics, predictive analytics and planning)
• Abil