Program Manager, Professional Education

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Program Manager Professional Education

Working at Abbott

At Abbott you can do work that matters grow and learn care for yourself and your family be your true self and live a full life. Youll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Employees can qualify forfree medical coverage in ourHealth Investment Plan (HIP) PPOmedical plan in the next calendar year.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution.
• Tuition reimbursement the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelors degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide 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 the best place to work for diversity working mothers female executives and scientists.

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of lifechanging technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare with leading businesses and products in diagnostics medical devices nutritional and branded generic medicines. Our 113000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Austin TX office or Pleasanton CA office in the Heart Failure Division. Leading an active lifestyle is important to the many people we Abbotts Heart Failure (HF) business were developing solutions to diagnose monitor and manage heart failure allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

Our Program Manager of Professional Education has primary responsibility to develop the strategy and support the coordination of educational activities for Abbott customers and other external stakeholders. This individual will be responsible for supporting Abbott heart failure educational priorities. They will tactically execute key programs to increase awareness and engagement with both patients and HCPs to drive consideration and adoption of Abbott heart failure solutions.

Activities include speaker programs product training live case observation and all other training programs in collaboration with Marketing Clinical Sales and the broader HF Education Team. Skills in market development and the development of multi-channel educational strategies leveraging best practices in adult learning including developing curricula and content for continuing education modules Learning Management System module creation and development and content for local national and customer programs is essential. This role will report to the Senior Manager of Professional Education Heart Failure Therapies.

What Youll Work On

• Manage and oversee the educational strategies related to activities modules and programs serving Abbott Heart Failure Therapies.
• Develop and execute effective education initiatives to drive market growth and adoption of assigned products with both patients and HCPs.
• Able to design appropriate programs to educate and train HCPs on safe and effective use of Abbott Heart Failure products and guideline/evidence-based clinical management.
• Understand key market trends barriers customer insights and competitive information to identify customer needs and education opportunities at local regional and national levels.
• Leads influences coaches cross-functional teams to enable successful educational activities for customers & other external stakeholders. Leverage expertise from within the organization to accomplish operational and training objectives.
• Partners cross-functionally with Marketing Sales Clinical Affairs Medical Affairs Regulatory and other departments as needed to establish and lead the development of educational project priorities and allocate resources appropriately.
• Manage and implement short and long-term plans to ensure educational activities and programs are in place to meet business objectives and ensure alignment and coordination with appropriate functional partners.
• Develop and implement educational strategies using techniques such as e-learning self-learning web-based learning experiential learning to meet the training needs.
• Develop implement train and monitor effectiveness of educational activities and programs. Adapt activities and priorities to meet business objectives and priorities.
• Ensure effective contracting and implementation of educational training modules training programs and other educational program activities.
• Facilitates the adoption of programs and tools by Abbott Heart Failure Commercial teams outside of the United States.
• Complies with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations other regulatory requirements Company policies operating procedures processes and task assignments.
• Maintains positive and cooperative communications and collaboration with all levels of employees customers contractors and vendors.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters Degree from an accredited university.
• At least 5 years experience in heart failure as a clinician or in industry.
• Solid leadership and people management skills including demonstrated ability to coach mentor and develop employees.
• Significant experience in identifying and driving operational change and excellence.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent technical aptitude in Education.
• Ability to work in a highly matrixed and geographically diverse business environment.
• Strong leadership skills including the ability to set goals and provide positive and constructive feedback respectfully to build positive relationships and improve business results.
• Ability to work effectively within a team in a fast-paced changing environment.
• Strong verbal and written communications with ability to effectively communicate at multiple levels in the organization.
• Multi-tasks prioritizes and meets deadlines in timely manner. Strong organizational planning and follow-up skills and ability to hold others accountable.
• Ability to travel approximately 40% including internationally.

Preferred Qualifications

• Candidates with Abbott Heart Failure product experience will be preferred
• Candidates with experience related to Hospital/Clinic program growth and/or prior marketing roles will be preferred
• Experience working in a broader enterprise/cross division business unit model preferred.

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