National Product Trainer - SI

Overview

Structural Heart National Product Trainer - SI

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

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.
• Free medical coverage for employees
  * via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution.
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU 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.

Structural Heart Business Mission:

Why we exist

Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life through the design and provision of device and management solutions for the treatment of structural heart disease.

This is a remote position requiring 75% travel.

The National Product Trainer – SI position is a field-based position is responsible for enhancing Abbott’s ability to sell trans-catheter structural heart devices and procedures through field and customer training to optimize procedural outcomes, efficiencies, and adoption. This position is geographically based and spends significant time in the field with customers. Strong leadership and teamwork skills are required. The position requires experience and knowledge to integrate with sales management, marketing, R&D, clinical science, clinical operations, and other cross functional groups.

This position also requires project and program management skills for the development and execution of field and customer product training programs.

As a member of the Structural Heart Training team, the job requires the following responsibilities:

• Teamwork
  • Integration with Abbott’s Product Training department team members to develop programs, content, and curriculum needed to authorize new sites, physicians and Abbott proctors for optimizing clinical outcomes, efficiencies, and program development
  • Collaboration and alignment with commercial leadership and marketing
  • Member of R&D product design teams as needed
  • Collaboration with Clinical as needed
• Leadership skills
  • Drive alignment with sales leadership on key strategic training needs (new hires/sites, product launches, challenging outcomes, etc).
  • Ability to work confidentially for individual product performance assessments and coaching.
  • Collaboration with KOL physicians and Abbott cross-functional teams (R&D, Clinical, Marketing, etc.) for alignment on critical training initiatives
• Interpersonal, Presentation, and Implementation Skills
  • Commercial training skillsets to implement adult learning principles for Abbott field representative and physician trainees
  • Work one-on-one with new hires, existing Abbott field representatives, or physician heart team members to support outcomes and efficiencies along with best practices
  • Present and train at Abbott field and customer educational programs
  • Product, procedure, and screening training content creation
• Program Management
  • Own training course design, presenter, content, and logistics as needed to support commercially available devices
• Analytics
  • Monitor product performance outcomes for additional training or product design input
• Content Creation
  • Development of training curriculum for commercial devices. Working with KOL thought leaders, R&D, Training, Clinical Engineering to create new training content.

This position is accountable for US SI product technical training for field partners and customers to ensure optimal outcomes with appropriate compliance. In-depth product knowledge, program…