Prod Mgr, Prof Ed Training

Innovation starts from the heart. Heart valve disease and critical care therapies impact millions of lives, spanning all ages and geographies. As communities globally address the opportunities and challenges of cardiovascular care, telling a compelling and authentic story is more crucial than ever. Beyond raising awareness, our Marketing teams build lasting, trusted relationships with medical professionals and industry stakeholders to ensure patients can receive the treatments they need.

This is an exciting opportunity for an exceptional marketing professional with prior medical device experience to join a growing team that is boldly designing transcatheter mitral and tricuspid therapies from the ground up. Edwards Transcatheter Mitral and Tricuspid Therapies (TMTT) business unit is dedicated to solving the complex challenges of mitral and tricuspid disease in order to transform treatment and significantly improve patients’ lives. Join our team and make your mark as we work to change the standard of care for millions of patients suffering from the effects of valvular heart disease.

Position Summary:  Partner with all levels of Professional Education staff and other related functions across Edwards to develop and lead the execution of educational programs for health care providers and internal product trainings/sales trainings.
How you will make an impact:

• Lead the execution and development of assigned product/program related training content and tools, including all aspects of education program delivery, while utilizing creativity and judgment to assure training tools are in compliance with Legal, Regulatory/Quality and AdvaMed requirements and achieving Edwards desired business goals

• Collaborate cross-functionally on creation of product/program training content, implementation and sustaining product use issues

• Create educational content and leverage content across multi-media tools to ensure clarity for regions where English is a second language

• Drive EW global product education program(s) to ensure proper utilization of products, and best procedural outcomes (Box, Procedural Videos, WebEx, On-Site training, etc.)

• Negotiate and develop appropriate vendor agreements

• Lead operations of product/program launch training activities

• Ensure proper content is updated and available throughout product lifecycle related training

• Establish and maintain good business relationships/partnerships with key KOL physicians and regional prof Ed teams

• Provide complex ad hoc analysis and projects on sustaining engineering product modifications and complaint issues

• Measure effectiveness of educational tools, resources and programs through conduct post-meeting survey instruments, focus groups, and other market research and provide monthly analytics.

• Drive and lead the implementation of process improvement for operational efficiency

• Other incidental duties

What you will need (required):

• Bachelor's Degree

• Minimum of 5 years of previously related work experience

• Experience working in sales, marketing, or healthcare industry

What else we look for (preferred):

• Proven expertise in MS Office Suite

• Excellent organizational and project management skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and interpersonal relationship skills including consultative and relationship management skills

• Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and investigative skills

• Substantial knowledge and understanding of policies, procedures, and guidelines relevant to strategic event planning

• Substantial knowledge of regulatory and AdvaMed requirements

• Strict attention to detail

• Ability to interact professionally with all organizational levels

• Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast paced environment

• Must be able to work in a team environment, working closely with global marketing team, key opinion leaders and regional sales managers

• Develop the ability to interact with senior internal and external personnel on assigned projects

• Adhere to all company rules and requirements (e.g., pandemic protocols, Environmental Health & Safety rules) and take adequate control measures in preventing injuries to themselves and others as well as to the protection of environment and prevention of pollution under their span of influence/control.

Aligning our overall business objectives with performance, we offer competitive salaries, performance-based incentives, and a wide variety of benefits programs to address the diverse individual needs of our employees and their families.

For California, the base pay range for this position is $90,000 to $127,000 (highly experienced).

The pay for the successful candidate will depend on various factors (e.g., qualifications, education, prior experience).  Applications will be accepted while this position is posted on our Careers website.  

Edwards is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer including protected Veterans and individuals with disabilities.

COVID Vaccination Requirement

Edwards is committed to protecting our vulnerable patients and the healthcare providers who are treating them. As such, all patient-facing and in-hospital positions require COVID-19 vaccination. If hired into a covered role, as a condition of employment, you will be required to submit proof that you have been vaccinated for COVID-19, unless you request and are granted a medical or religious accommodation for exemption from the vaccination requirement. This vaccination requirement does not apply in locations where it is prohibited by law to impose vaccination.