Professional Education Relations Associate

## Professional Education Relations Associate 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.##
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* JOB DESCRIPTION:

**** Working at Abbott
** At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and 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 high employer contribution
* Tuition reimbursement, the  student debt program and  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 around the world 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 a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
** The Opportunity
** The
** Professional Education Relations Associate
** is a
** Remote
* * position within the
** Cardiac Rhythm Management
** Division.

As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, we focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias or irregular heartbeats.

The primary purpose of this role is to provide clinical and professional expertise for professional education program design and execution. This role will contribute to the strategy and tactical design and delivery of education programs.

Using agility and creativity, the incumbent will be responsible for identifying and uncovering new training needs and gaps from sales and marketing leaders, and Key Opinion Leaders; contributing to the design professional education solutions, developing and maintaining content for engagements; participating in training as in a facilitator capacity; reviewing the impact of the training after delivery; and driving a cycle of continuous improvement.

This role will work closely with HCPs, Professional Education program managers, and sales and marketing leaders to align initiatives that are developed, executed and measured for HCP engagement and impact.

This role requires 75% travel (domestically and globally).
** What You'll Work On
*** Identify subject matter experts (physicians and allied professionals) for speaking and providing peer to peer training.  Manage KOL relationships for professional education engagements. Manage speaker lists, speakers bureau, and speaker training.
* Develop relationships with Clinicians at all levels;
Fellows, EP, Cardiologists, Electrophysiology, AHP/APP, Hospital Administration
* Collaborate with key internal and external stakeholders (Marketing, Sales, physicians and allied professional, etc.) to gather inputs and feedback during analysis.
* Provide clinical and professional Subject Matter Expertise, contributing to the design and development of professional education strategies and programs.
* Establish and maintain strong cross functional relationships with the US commercial organization at the Area and Regional level
* Ensure positive customer/trainee/trainer experience and message consistency at programs and become an expert within the designated therapy on trainee needs.
* Partner with Launch Education to deploy new launch programs.
* Partner with Fellows program for seamless handoffs.
* Lead delivery of professional education training programs with the field- participating in a facilitator capacity.
* Collaborate with education operations team to ensure seamless delivery
* Identify standardized methods to evaluate impact of education programs and to continuously improve.
* Drive a culture of best industry practices, technologies, and tools and as appropriate apply those best…