Global Senior Manager Concomitant Procedures

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Global Senior Manager Concomitant Procedures

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. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Employees can qualify for 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](https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/tackling-student-debt-for-our-employees.html) student debt program, and [FreeU](https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/college-degree-for-free-its-possible-with-freeu.html) education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s 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.

The Opportunity

In Abbott’s Electrophysiology (EP) business, we’re advancing the treatment of heart disease through breakthrough medical technologies in atrial fibrillation, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

The Global Senior Manager Concomitant Procedures will be responsible for developing and executing an educational strategy focusing on the emerging needs for Concomitant procedures. The role will ensure that both LAAO and EP internal teams are properly trained and educated on those new procedures, including xtraining on LAAO integration into Ensite X.

What You’ll Work On

As the Global Senior Manager, you will have a thorough understanding of the customer, and the evolving competitive landscape to ensure training is effective in supporting our new EP and SH solutions. This role is instrumental in the successful product launch of a new technology across all geographies, with particular focus on the US and EMEA.

This self-starter will be critical in evaluating the training implementation and effectiveness then adapting for success in each geography and across future product development.

What You’ll Do

• Cultivate a deep understanding of the clinical workflow applications for Abbott solutions in EP and SH procedures; regarded as a clinical subject matter expert, specifically in LAAO concomitant procedures
• Maintain deep clinical knowledge of electrophysiology, Intracardiac Echo technology, as well as other imaging modalities like TEE and TTE
• Develop with the team a robust training curriculum to upskill new and tenured AF and LAAO specialists within the commercial field teams
• Build trusted and strategic relationships with global physician partners: identifying partnering opportunities and joint projects for “concomitant” training
• Engage the global commercial organization and education teams through frequent visits to understand and assess potential opportunities within the training curriculum to meet locally changing competitive and clinical environments
• Oversee the process to ensure training materials, workflows, and delivery strategies are updated and relevant to the needs of our internal and external customers through collaboration with Product Marketing, R&D, Clinical, and Education peers
• Support implementation of training programs in the market to support building of new product knowledge(ex. AF Ablation, Integrated ICE, TEE, LAA closure)
• Innovative participation in planning immersive learning activities for new product launches (webinars, podcasts, simulation technologies, etc)
• Conduct large scale internal and external training events with equipment, personnel, and clinical content management
• Develop metrics to assess effectiveness of educational programs and quickly implements changes to educational programs if needed

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• 5 + years of experience in Cardiovascular, Electrophysiology, or Structural Heart procedures, including experience with LAAO, AF ablation, ICE, TEE, TTE, and Vascular ultrasound
• Excellent presentation and interpersonal skills
• Ingenuity and willingness to develop creative solutions to complex problems within defined constraints
• Affinity for leading an education team
• Understanding and expertise in the technical aspects and application of current and new products in Therapy Area
• Strong verbal and written communications with ability to effectively communicate at multiple levels in the organization
• Ability to leverage and/or engage others to accomplish projects
• Ability to apply the fundamental concepts and practices to conduct needs assessment and design training programs
• Demonstrated ability to simplify and explain complex topics effectively and experience developing others
• Strong organizational and follow-up skills, as well as attention to detail
• Ability to work in a highly matrixed and geographically diverse business environment
• Excellent computer and software skills (experience with Microsoft Office or Adobe Creative Cloud required) in graphics, wordprocessing, databases, authoring programs, etc., to develop presentation materials
• Multitasks, prioritizes and meets deadlines in timely manner
• Ability to travel approximately 40%, including internationally