Position Summary:
The Senior Director, Global Professional Education – Peripheral Intervention , is a pivotal enterprise-level global leadership role responsible for defining and leading the global vision, strategy, and operating model for educational programs and initiative focused on Peripheral Intervention devices. This position requires an authoritative leader with deep expertise in global interventional practices, medical device technology, and educational methodologies specific to Peripheral Intervention. The role is central to advancing BD's worldwide commitment to education in this specialty, ensuring impactful learning across multiple regions and cultures. This role establishes global standards, governance, and performance frameworks, ensuring alignment across regions (Americas, EMEA, APAC) and across the product lifecycle (pre-launch, adoption, and lifecycle management). The position leads a global organization of regional and functional education leaders, driving strategic alignment with Clinical, Medical, Commercial, and R&D priorities.
Essential / Key Job Responsibilities (including supervisory and/or fiscal):
- Lead, mentor, and develop a global team of leaders (including Directors and regional education heads), fostering a high-performance culture and leadership pipeline.
- Own and define the global professional education strategy, including long-term vision, enterprise priorities, and investment allocation. Translate business strategy into a scalable global education framework and operating model.
- Define and lead the global KOL engagement strategy, including identification, development, and activation of key opinion leaders. Represent BD in global forums, congresses, and scientific collaborations.
- Drive innovation in education delivery models (e.g., digital, simulation-based, data-driven approaches) to modernize global professional education.
- Establish global governance, KPIs, and performance metrics to assess effectiveness, adoption, and business impact across regions, and oversee global budget governance, resource allocation, and standardized systems/tools.
- Develop and implement robust evaluation and feedback mechanisms to continually assess and enhance the effectiveness of educational initiatives.
- Ensure all educational programs adhere to industry standards, regulatory requirements, and best practices in medical education.
- Provide strategic oversight of global education programs, ensuring alignment to global standards, scalability, and impact.
- Responsible for alignment and management of on-line and in person courses/programs
- Advise and drive innovative strategies and priorities to gain knowledge of practitioner and industry insights to advance success of BD products through stakeholder engagement and delivery of medical education and training.
- Collaborate with MA Operations to set strategic metrics for building and maintaining standard systems/tools, budgets, resource needs, processes, and training across Professional Education to drive operational excellence.
Required Qualifications:
- Previous track record of working in Education for medical devices.
- A minimum of 10+ years of progressive leadership/management experience in Medical Professional Affairs.
- Experience in leading professional strategy and key tactics for new product launch readiness (market seeding, KOL and advocate engagement, podium opportunities, and key educational initiatives).
- Experience in leading the delivery of a global/regional educational training strategy for HCPs, internal proctors, non-physician proctors and internal clinical staff.
- Experience implementing education plans, strategies, global practices, policies, and processes for medical education programs (e.g., field clinical, physician proctor, non-physician proctor training, fellows’ programs).
- Able to continuously evaluate the internal/external environment to deliver novel medical education and training approaches, practices, and processes to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of education and training.
- Demonstrated leadership in incorporating innovative approaches to strategy and education of professional education materials.
- Experience in partnering with multiple internal & external stakeholders to deliver against the business strategy.
- Demonstrated leadership capabilities focused on hiring, developing, and retaining a world-class team as well as success driving results.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively at all levels of the organization.
Knowledge and Skills:
- Clinical Practices: In-depth understanding of clinical procedures, especially those related to peripheral intervention devices.
- Medical Device Technology: Familiarity with the latest advancements in medical devices and their applications.
- Educational Methodologies: Experience in developing and implementing effective training programs for medical professionals.
- Regulatory Compliance: Knowledge of healthcare regulations and standards to ensure all training programs meet legal requirements.
- Leadership: Ability to lead and inspire a team, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment.
- Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills to effectively convey complex information.
- Decision-Making: Effective problem-solving and decision-making abilities to address challenges and optimize training outcomes.
- Interpersonal Skills: Ability to build and maintain relationships with various stakeholders, including physicians, commercial partners, and regulatory bodies.
- Project Management: Proficiency in managing multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring timely and successful completion.
- Adaptability: Capacity to adapt to changing environments and incorporate new technologies and methodologies into training programs.
- Continuous Learning: Commitment to ongoing professional development and staying updated with industry trends and best practices.
- This role is crucial for ensuring that physicians are well-equipped with the knowledge and skills needed to use peripheral intervention devices effectively, ultimately improving patient care and outcomes.
Education and/or Experience:
- Master’s degree in business administration, health policy, health economics, life sciences or healthcare. MBA, PhD, MD or PharmD preferred. Extensive relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a master’s degree.
- 15+ years of Biotechnology/pharmaceutical/device industry experience in professional affairs and medical education or other related function.
Physical Demands:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit, use sight, and use hands to manipulate, handle or feel objects, tools, controls, and office equipment. The employee frequently is required to verbally communicate with other associates. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel or crouch. Inability to meet one or more of these physical demands will not automatically disqualify a candidate or employee from the position. Upon request, the company may make reasonable accommodations.
Work Environment:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be in an open cubicle environment. Candidate must be able to work in a team-oriented, fast-paced environment. BD is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer that values and actively seeks diversity in the workforce.
This job description is intended as a summary of the primary responsibilities of and qualifications for this position. The job description is not intended as inclusive of all duties an individual in this position might be asked to perform or of all qualifications that may be required either now or in the future.
