Sr. Manager Product Training - TAVI

Abbott Laboratories • Lewes, DE

80d • $127,300 - $254,700

About The Position

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries. This manager position is responsible for leading a team to support Abbott’s US TAVR field and customer training programs along with collaborating on global TAVR training curriculum to consistently optimize procedural outcomes and efficiencies. This position will also work closely with the Field Clinical Affairs team for TAVR clinical trial training alignment. This position is US based and spends significant time in the US along with targeted travel to Europe. Strong leadership and teamwork skills are required. The position requires strong program management experience and knowledge to integrate with US commercial leadership, EMEA training groups, R&D, and other cross functional teams. Prior training program management is desired.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree plus 5+ years of related work experience with a good understanding of specified functional area or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.

Nice To Haves

• Ten years of relevant work experience with strong project management.
• Direct experience working with physician customers.
• A clinical background and/or strong clinical knowledge and aptitude.
• Strong communication skills. Ability to work with several levels within the organization and in cross functional teams.
• Solid understanding and application of business concepts, procedures, and practices.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft office applications.

Responsibilities

• Ability to work with other cross functional team members and global counterparts to ensure program management, communication, collaboration, alignment and implementation of training.
• Work closely with US sales leadership for training program alignment to commercial educational needs.
• Act as the point person for cross functional teams to represent US training needs.
• Build a US-based TAVR national training team to ensure optimal outcomes and training program development.
• Ensure career plan and development for all direct reports.
• Create alignment between global stakeholders on training process, programs, and content.
• Present training program strategic updates.
• Create training program overview content and give direction for mandatory & supplemental training program content.
• Strategic planning to develop training programs that meet current field and customer learning goal needs.
• Responsible for procedural training SOP/DOP’s development, content/models/simulators, event-based training, local training.
• Budget forecasting and management.
• Monitor product performance outcomes for additional training or product design input for trial sites.
• Development of global training curriculum for commercial and investigational devices.

Benefits

• Career development with an international company.
• Free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical 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.
• Recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide.
• Named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• Recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees