Academic Relations Manager
About The Position
The Academic Relations Manager develops and executes ATEC's academic engagement strategy across orthopedic and neurosurgical residency and fellowship programs. The role leads fellowship and resident engagement, academic education programs, transition-to-practice initiatives, and surgeon relationship development in support of EOS imaging and ATEC procedural solutions. The position ensures future spine surgeons receive exposure to ATEC technologies during training and experience a coordinated transition into clinical practice. This involves working with field sales, surgeon education, EOS teams, distributors, and marketing partners, as well as managing academic relationships, events, surgeon tracking, and transition-to-practice activities. The role also maintains visibility into trainee status and future practice destinations, coordinates educational opportunities, facilitates commercial and clinical team handoffs, analyzes engagement and transition metrics, and reports progress and partnership opportunities to commercial leadership. Travel is required.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree required.
- Strong project management and event planning abilities.
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
- Willingness to travel.
Nice To Haves
- Experience working with surgeons, residents, fellows, and academic institutions.
- Experience in spine surgery or musculoskeletal healthcare.
- Knowledge of fellowship and residency structures.
- Familiarity with EOS imaging technology and spine procedural solutions.
- Experience supporting surgeon education programs and KOL engagement.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain relationships with orthopedic and neurosurgical residency and fellowship programs nationwide.
- Build annual engagement plans for key academic institutions and training centers.
- Manage fellowship and resident databases, including training status, graduation timelines, geographic preferences, and future practice destinations.
- Coordinate faculty engagement, educational events, and surgeon networking programs.
- Own the Transition-to-Practice program for graduating fellows and chief residents.
- Maintain visibility into graduating surgeons’ placement and employment opportunities.
- Partner with sales leadership and distributor teams to hand off future surgeons entering practice.
- Track surgeon engagement from training through the first years of practice.
- Measure and report successful surgeon transition metrics.
- Create educational pathways exposing trainees to EOS imaging workflows and ATEC procedural solutions.
- Coordinate lab participation, educational courses, site visits, and peer-to-peer learning opportunities.
- Plan and execute fellowship director meetings, resident education initiatives, fellow courses, young surgeon programs, academic society events, and transition-to-practice meetings.
- Collaborate with Marketing, Medical Education, EOS, and Commercial teams to maximize engagement.
- Establish processes to connect each graduating fellow with regional sales leadership, distributor partners, EOS representatives, clinical specialists, and local surgeon champions.
- Develop reporting mechanisms to track relationship status and handoff completion.
- Maintain fellowship and transition tracking systems.
- Analyze engagement trends and surgeon conversion opportunities.
- Provide quarterly updates to commercial leadership.
- Identify high-potential academic partnerships and growth opportunities.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
