National Product Trainer - LAAO

at  Abbott Laboratories

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.

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 principals 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

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor’s degree plus 5+ years of related work experience with a good understanding of specified functional area or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.

MINIMUM EXPERIENCE / TRAINING REQUIRED

• Five years of relevant work experience.
• Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) Occlusion experience
• Experience with structural heart and/or electrophysiology devices/procedures
• Direct experience working with and training physician customers.
• A clinical background and/or strong clinical knowledge and aptitude.
• Program management experience.
• Strong communication skills, specifically an ability to deliver effective training to large and small audiences.
• Ability to work with several levels within the organization and in cross functional teams.
• Solid understanding and application of business concepts, procedures, and practices.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft office applications.

This position is accountable for US Amulet product technical training of field and customers to ensure optimal outcomes with appropriate compliance. In-depth product knowledge, program management, and commercial training skillsets are required. Ongoing cross-functional team partnerships with Commercial leadership, MD KOLs, Marketing, R&D, Clinical Engineering, Clinical Science, Quality, and others are also critical for successful plans and implementation. Field-based customer interactions for training and challenge case diagnosis/solutions will also facilitate optimal clinical outcomes & efficiencies. All locally learned training and best-practices will be transformed into training curriculum.