Senior Training & Education Specialist

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the LifeMedtronic is hiring a Training and Education Specialist committed to Affera, a system designed to address procedural challenges faced by the electrophysiology (EP) community while maintaining a high standard of safety and efficacy for patients by enabling a single transeptal, zero-fluoroscopy, and zero-exchange workflow, eventually offering the flexibility to use either pulsed field or radiofrequency energy.
In the role, you will play a pivotal role in upscaling the EP and Mapping/Navigation systems knowledge of the existing field force members, eventually reporting to a Senior Training and Education Manager for Western Europe. For this remote position, you will be working with Western Europe.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Plan, develop, deliver and coordinate in-house product training programs for field support personnel and customers, eventually obtaining information needed to prepare in-house training programs, preparing training material, developing course content, determining methodology, coordinating the development of training aids
• Ensure training program meets company and customer objectives, maintain communication with customers to ensure effectiveness of training, utilize trainers with technical expertise, continuously revise lesson plans to meet new training requirements and keep technical information up to date
• Strongly influence the design of new indication and product launch education plans based on business strategy, with a significant focus on functional results
• Design and execute creative and engaging Field Sales and Technical Consultants Education programs that are targeted, purposeful, and increase electrophysiology knowledge and skills in procedures and cardiac ablation therapies, to enable the commercial organization meets its objectives
• Collaborate with cross functional groups (Product Marketing, Sales, Product Development, Services, Legal, Quality, and Regulatory) to create education programs, curricula, course materials and measurements that support business unit strategies and are compliant with regulatory, quality systems, and Business Conduct Standards
• Demonstrate education effectiveness through systematic program evaluation and continuous improvement strategy, adjust swiftly to shifting priorities in order to satisfy business requirements

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or advanced, master’s degree
• 5-7 years of relevant experience in a clinical lab setting, clinical training, field sales/support in medical device, healthcare industry
• At least 5 years of Electro Physiology (EP) Mapping experience
• Fluency in English, with fluency in further European languages eventually being a strong asset
• Availability to travel for up to 60% of working time
• Collaboration and Inclusion skills, ability to develop and foster strong relationships with external customers, passion to develop and deliver impactful training
• Strong working knowledge of Training & Education of Medical device program curriculum build and delivery processes with ability to work autonomously to provide strong organizational impact.

Medtronic is committed to safeguarding the principle of non-discrimination in employment on the basis of sex, sexual orientation or gender identity, as set out in Article 14 of the Constitution and Articles 17 and 18 of the Workers' Statute, as well as Organic Law 3/2007 of 22 March on effective equality between women and men and Law 4/2023 for the real and effective equality of transgender people and the protection of LGTBI rights. This commitment applies to all company personnel without exception. This is done with the understanding and conviction that equal treatment and opportunities in the workplace must be guaranteed, ultimately ensuring an inclusive working environment that advances the eradication of discrimination against LGTBI people and the absence of any direct or indirect discrimination on the grounds of sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and those derived from maternity, family obligations and marital status.

Physical Job Requirements
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. 

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create.  We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
 

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people. 
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here