Medical Education Specialist - Cardiac Surgical Heart Therapies at Medtronic in Mounds View, Minnesota

Job Description:

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 Life
Drives the creation and delivery of training, educational, and value-added programs for Cardiac Surgical Heart Therapies (CST). Takes a lead role in managing program content and training activities with an emphasis on customer related initiatives for surgical heart valves and Revasc therapies. Responsible for continuously monitoring the training needs of the customer in order to identify areas to enhance product knowledge, increase market understanding and educate the on new therapies and products. Initiating, designing, and implementing training programs to effectively address these needs/requirements while managing within budgetary guidelines. Works in collaboration with marketing, sales, and human resources to accomplish this, as well as manages projects with external vendors.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Facilitates customized training and education programs for Medical and Academic Professionals on diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, to increase procedural, technology and product adoption to improve patient outcomes.


• Participates in conventions, forums, symposia educational content and scientific education programming meetings for promoting product and procedural awareness.


• Lead and assist on key initiatives in the development, execution and continual improvement of physician education programs including content development, faculty and site management, program execution and follow-up, and documentation and tracking.


• Conducts/ Facilitates physician led education and consulting, supports establishment and maintenance of customer relations with clinicians and organizations.


• Partner with cross-functional teams to provide customer and training content for both surgical and Revasc therapies.


• Monitor training needs of customers to enhance product knowledge, increase market understanding of cardiac surgery product platforms and related therapies.


• Keep abreast of trends, leading developments and technology (implement as appropriate).


• Assist in the development and managing of budgets to meet company and business unit objectives.


• Cultivate strong relationships with key stakeholders in marketing, clinical evidence, field training and executive teams.

Basic Qualifications:

• Proven skills in education program design, development, and delivery.


• Ability to apply knowledge to adult learning, including needs assessment and knowledge transfer.


• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including technical writing and presentation skills.


• Strong interpersonal skills.


• Strong work ethic in accomplishing all objectives of the position.


• Ability to work well, develop and maintain relationships across cross functional areas.


• Demonstrated success working in a collaborative team environment.


• Extreme attention to detail and organization.

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.

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

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.

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$70,400.00 - $105,600.00

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

The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

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 90,000+ 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 .

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

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