Senior Manager, U.S. Professional Education

Hugel Aesthetics

8d•$150,000 - $170,000

About The Position

The Senior Manager, U.S. Professional Education leads the strategy, development, execution, and optimization of healthcare professional peer-to-peer educational initiatives across the Hugel Aesthetics portfolio. The role focuses on building clinical confidence, strengthening product knowledge, and supporting product trial, adoption, and long-term utilization. Reporting to the Senior Director, Strategic Communications and Professional Relations, this individual has primary responsibility for the Speaker Bureau, including speaker identification, selection, contracting, onboarding, training, utilization, and ongoing faculty engagement. The position also plans and executes live and virtual educational programs, webinars, speaker training meetings, and advisory boards. The Senior Manager works cross-functionally with Medical Affairs, Sales, Compliance, Marketing, and external partners to deliver high-quality, clinically accurate, compliant, and impactful educational experiences aligned with commercial objectives. The role cultivates a diverse network of national, regional, local, and emerging healthcare professional thought leaders and translates clinical expertise and real-world experience into peer-to-peer education. Responsibilities include end-to-end program delivery, field collaboration, logistics, vendor oversight, budget management, content and training development, performance measurement, and continuous improvement. The role may also support congress education, advisory boards, and medical society and industry association partnerships. Travel may be required up to 40% of the time.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, or a related field.
7–10+ years of relevant experience in pharmaceutical, medical device, or medical aesthetics marketing, professional education, or related commercial functions, including a focus on HCP education.
Experience in medical aesthetics and demonstrated ability to independently lead complex professional education programs.
Proven experience managing speakers, educational events, vendors, agencies, budgets, and cross-functional workstreams.
Working knowledge of pharmaceutical promotional compliance, HCP engagement, contracting, and applicable medical and regulatory review processes.
Excellent project management, communication, organizational, and stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to execute multiple programs concurrently.
Excellent presentation skills, with confidence and business acumen in front of senior customer stakeholders.
Ability to travel up to 40% of the time.

Nice To Haves

MBA or advanced degree.
Experience in injectable aesthetics and product launch or growth-stage commercial environments.
Experience launching or scaling digital HCP education programs and measuring engagement.
Experience supporting advisory boards, congress education, and national or regional speaker training.
Experience leading teams or mentoring colleagues.

Responsibilities

Lead the strategic planning, development, execution, and optimization of national, regional, and local peer-to-peer educational programs.
Manage end-to-end program delivery, including planning, speaker coordination, field collaboration, logistics, vendors, budgets, and post-program evaluation.
Develop and manage an integrated calendar of live and virtual programs, including speaker-led dinners, webinars, and other HCP educational initiatives.
Partner with Sales leadership to align educational programming with regional priorities and opportunities to build clinical confidence and support appropriate product trial and adoption.
Own Speaker Bureau operations, including faculty identification, selection, contracting, onboarding, utilization planning, documentation, and compliant engagement.
Develop and maintain a tiered roster of national, regional, local, and emerging HCP speakers, with defined development and engagement plans.
Coordinate faculty assignments and evaluate speaker performance, educational effectiveness, and utilization with internal stakeholders.
Partner with the Senior Director on strategic KOL alignment while independently managing Speaker Bureau operations and faculty activation.
Lead speaker training, including initial onboarding, certification, annual refreshers, new-data updates, and training meetings.
Partner with Medical Affairs and Compliance to ensure educational content is clinically accurate, current, and consistent with applicable promotional requirements.
Collaborate with Marketing and external partners to develop and update speaker resources, webinar content, training materials, and program tools.
Drive awareness, enrollment, engagement, and utilization of HCP educational offerings and, where applicable, the digital education platform.
Manage professional education budgets, forecasts, vendor and agency relationships, contracting workflows, and execution timelines.
Define and track KPIs, including program completion, attendance, engagement, speaker training and certification, faculty utilization, participant feedback, and budget performance.
Evaluate educational effectiveness and, where reliable data are available, program-level trends in product trial and adoption; recommend improvements to program design and investment allocation.
Communicate with and equip field teams on available programs, speaker nomination processes, scheduling, and program follow-up.
Partner with the Senior Director to support HCP advisory boards, including advisor coordination, meeting planning, content preparation, logistics, and synthesis of actionable insights.
Support educational initiatives at national and regional congresses, including speaker programs, educational sessions, and faculty coordination.
Collaborate with the Senior Director on medical society and industry association partnerships, supporting execution of relevant educational initiatives.