We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 23 Sep 2025

 

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

Please join an exciting and growing space within Medtronic’s Cardiac Surgery business as you directly impact the development and success of the sales force through best-in-class training & education. The Sr Training & Education Specialist role will be responsible in ensuring the field force gains procedural, product, and clinical confidence in selling the Extracorporeal Therapies (ECT) and Extracorporeal Life Support (ECLS) product portfolio and is viewed as THE expert and resource to internal customers.

Success factors of best-in-class training are through strategic thinking and strong cross functional partnerships, expectation setting, and continuous improvements of programs. This role reports to the Medical Education & Integrated Marketing Director for the Cardiac Surgery business.

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.

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
MN and MI, preferred. We will consider candidates living anywhere in the US, who have the ability to travel as needed.

Position Responsibilities:

This role is responsible for supporting the development and execution of global training and education initiatives for the ECT (Extracorporeal Therapy) and ECLS (Extracorporeal Life Support) portfolio. The trainer will collaborate closely with Marketing, Field Sales Trainers, Clinical Specialists, Sales Enablement, Sales Leadership, and other cross-functional teams to ensure consistent, high-quality training that drives competency and performance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the development and delivery of comprehensive training programs to build ECT and ECLS competencies across U.S. sales teams and internal stakeholders.
• Partner with regional teams to support training and competency development for commercial and clinical teams outside the U.S. (OUS).
• Assess and measure therapy and product knowledge proficiency globally to identify gaps and opportunities for improvement.
• Design, plan, and execute in-house product and therapy training programs for both field support personnel and customer-facing roles.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to align training content with product strategy, clinical messaging, and commercial goals.
• Ensure training programs are aligned with adult learning principles and best practices in instructional design.
• Demonstrate training effectiveness through systematic program evaluation and continuous improvement strategy; Track training effectiveness through feedback, assessments, and performance metrics to ensure learning objectives are achieved.
• In partnership with sales enablement team, train new hires to effectively sell ECT/ECLS portfolio
• Training sales representatives and clinical specialists to ensure successful procedural and product support to health care professionals (HCPs) who are using Medtronic products
• Collaborate with HCP faculty and cross-functional groups (Engineering, Product Marketing, Sales, Services, Legal, Quality and Regulatory) to create training programs, curricula design, course materials and measurements that support operating unit strategies and are compliant with Regulatory, Quality Systems and Business Conduct Standards
• Develop self to become the subject matter expert in ECT and ECLS products and procedures
• Provide timely evaluation and feedback to trainees and their managers/supervisors
• Identify and implement cutting edge online, in-person and virtual training & education through implementation of new learning platforms and tools
• Support field-based education efforts, including but not limited to evaluation of sales rep/clinical specialist knowledge in the field

• • Continuously revises lesson plans to meet new training requirements and to keep technical information up to date.
  • Capacity to adjust swiftly to shifting priorities in order to satisfy business requirements
  • Travel: up to 30%
   

Must Have:

4 years of training or marketing experience, or an advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years.

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