Marketing Specialist - Professional Education

$72,700 - $145,300/Yr

Abbott Laboratories - Austin, TX

Full-time - Mid Level

Austin, TX

10,001+ employees

Miscellaneous Manufacturing

About the position

This position supports the Neuromodulation division at Abbott, focusing on developing and executing educational programs for healthcare providers. The role involves coordinating various stages of educational initiatives, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards, and maintaining effective communication with stakeholders to enhance clinical competence and technical knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Adapts, implements, and executes curricula and training content through multiple channels to develop clinical competence and technical knowledge among healthcare providers.
• Works closely with sales and marketing leaders to align initiatives for healthcare provider engagement and impact.
• Coordinates all stages of educational programs including event preparation, customer travel, venue selection, program execution, and document retention.
• Tracks and maintains program-specific educational budget.
• Collaborates with physician faculty to ensure they are trained on educational material and prepared for events.
• Solicits and utilizes feedback from field, customers, and faculty to adjust education strategy as needed.
• Maintains in-depth knowledge of Abbott products, therapies, customers, and business objectives to develop educational programs.
• Complies with FDA regulations and company policies.
• Maintains positive communication and collaboration with employees, customers, contractors, and vendors.
• Submits expense and transparency reports in a timely manner.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience and education.
• 5+ years of related work experience with a strong understanding of the specified functional area.
• Solid understanding and application of business concepts, procedures, and practices.
• Willingness to perform this job in a quality system environment.
• Ability to work on problems of diverse scope requiring evaluation of identifiable factors.
• Exercises judgment within defined practices and policies in selecting methods for obtaining solutions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent organizational and follow-up skills.
• Ability to lead projects and events involving multiple stakeholders across departments.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

Nice-to-haves

• 2+ years in event planning/coordination experience or equivalent.
• Healthcare background.
• Budget management experience.
• Medical device background.
• CVENT experience.
• Experience with expense reporting software such as Concur.
• Experience with project management software such as Monday.com.
• Travel booking experience.
• Experience working in a broad and highly matrixed organization.

Benefits

• Free medical coverage for employees via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO.
• Excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution.
• Tuition reimbursement and Freedom 2 Save student debt program.
• FreeU education benefit for obtaining a bachelor's degree.