ABBOTT LABORATORIES Professional Education Manager Salary in the United States

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 103,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

The primary function of the Professional Education Manager is to provide strategic & tactical oversight of physician-paid, customer facing training programs. In this role, the Professional EDU Manager will oversee our relationships with physician proctors on contract, their clinical support teams & the sales leaders.

Job Responsibilities:

• Develop customized physician education curriculum, focused on blended and multi-touchpoint adult learning.
• Through collaboration with sales leadership, strategize a development pathway for target physicians.
• Collaborate with ProfEd colleagues in the management of national Peer-to-Peer education programs, including proctor relationships, field communication, content management, etc.
• Lead efforts in development of strategic national “Big Box” programs with focus on identification of faculty, agenda, etc.
• Partner with Commercial Marketing, Commercial Excellence, and Sales Leadership to identify education programs that meet advanced training, trending, and market-relevant needs, within Regulatory, Compliance, and budget guidelines.
• Collaborate with Education colleagues in development of online customer training portals.
• Develop communications to EP Field to promote awareness & report value of ProfEd programs.
• Manage the annual needs assessment process to match educational needs with the available pool of healthcare practitioner expertise.
• Develop fluency & understanding of Abbott Compliance guideline, travel & spend policies & external regulatory guidelines like the Sunshine Act & ensure all compliance guidelines are met.

General Qualifications:

• 5-7 years of clinical experience in a cardiac field, either as a business associate in Education, Marketing, Sales or Clinical Affairs for a major cardiac medical device company.
• Demonstrated interest in excelling at continuous process improvement.
• Demonstrated ability to execute on complex business plans in the field of Education, Marketing, or Sales.
• At least 2 years of working, successfully, across multiple functions in a capacity to influence and drive value delivery to customers.
• Exceptional communication skills & professional credibility.
• Demonstrated ability to organize & manage multiple events simultaneously.
• Comfortable working independently; making decisions.
• Ability to work within a team & as an individual contributor in a fast-paced, changing environment.
• Modest travel (30%).
• Bachelor’s degree.