Sr. Group Manager, Field Education

Additional Location(s): US-MN-Minneapolis

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At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.

About the role:
The Senior Group Manager, Field Education, will lead a team of Professional Education leaders working collaboratively with the Field Selling Organization to leverage professional educational offerings and deliver educational content to Endoscopy Health Care Professionals. This individual will lead a team of Field Education Managers (with assigned geographies) and a Nursing and Infection Prevention Expert (Fellow, National, Global). This team will gain insights from the field on the types and methods of education most needed in their geographies/fields of expertise and will work together with the Professional Education team, sales leadership, and sales representatives to deliver high-quality educational programs and content to meet those needs. Much of the emphasis of this education will be on New Technology Adoption/Market Development (peer-to-peer), Nurse/Tech Education (field-led), Multi-Disciplinary Team Education, and Infection Prevention in the GI Suite/OR (field and expert-led).

This individual will work directly with Professional Education, Directors of Sales, Strategic Systems Managers, local sales teams, MDMs, Product Marketing, Physicians, Nurses, and Fellows to deliver the strategy, vision, and execution of Field-Led Curriculum and Peer-to-Peer education. This position is a key stakeholder in the national strategic plan as it relates to executing key educational objectives and representing this strategy and offerings to key stakeholders and hospital decision-makers.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Recruiting, managing, and developing a team of high-performing education professionals.
• Leading a team to effectively intake and shape FSO Education requests, align them with the business strategy, and manage the budget.
• Translating insights from the field into recommendations for action or content from the Professional Education team.
• Strategizing with SSMs, FSO, DOS, MDMs, the Professional Education Development team, and KOLs to create and execute innovative, impactful education programs through various mediums, and aligning faculty based on specific educational needs.
• Ensuring consistency of education programs, content, and resources across the country, and ensuring stakeholder awareness of programs and learner criteria.
• Leading FEMs to drive Marquee program execution and evolution in their geographies, ensuring all measures of success are met.
• Managing the Clinical Resource Group with strong quarterly objectives to maximize their expertise in professional education programs and pan-Endo.
• Collaborating with cross-functional partners, including Sales, Sales Training, Product Marketing, Market Development, Medical Affairs, Professional Education, Digital Marketing & Communications, and HEMA, to ensure alignment, support, and clear direction.
• Building and supporting relationships in key customer meetings where Professional Education is a key topic, with key physicians, and internal and external stakeholders.
• Collecting the voice of the customer (physicians and sales partners) for key educational insights.
• Understanding and enforcing HCP compliance, regulatory requirements, educational grants, and logistics.

Required qualifications:

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in sciences, business, education, or marketing.
• Minimum of 7 years of field sales, medical education, and/or marketing experience in medical devices, with experience in Gastroenterology/Endoscopy preferred.
• Ability to travel up to 75%.
• Passionate about education, with strong clinical and business acumen and a talent for developing people.
• KOL management experience.

Preferred qualifications:

• Advanced degree.
• Collaborative, creative, and execution-driven; team-first mentality; comfortable with ambiguity.
• People leadership experience.
• Proven strengths in innovative ideas and approaches, strategic and big-picture thinking, analytical skills, project management, and problem-solving.
• Excels in a fast-paced, competitive environment.
• Proven high performer with significant influence.
• Superior interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Ability to communicate and articulate complex clinical information.
• Experience building and managing relationships with key customers and cross-functional partners.
• Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and Salesforce.com.
   

Requisition ID: 595972

Among other requirements, Boston Scientific maintains specific prohibited substance testing requirements for safety-sensitive positions. This role deemed safety-sensitive and, as such, candidates will be subject to a drug test as a pre-employment requirement/ The foal of the drug testing is to increase workplace safety in compliance with the applicable law.

As a leader in medical science for more than 40 years, we are committed to solving the challenges that matter most – united by a deep caring for human life. Our mission to advance science for life is about transforming lives through innovative medical solutions that improve patient lives, create value for our customers, and support our employees and the communities in which we operate. Now more than ever, we have a responsibility to apply those values to everything we do – as a global business and as a global corporate citizen.

So, choosing a career with Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX) isn’t just business, it’s personal. And if you’re a natural problem-solver with the imagination, determination, and spirit to make a meaningful difference to people worldwide, we encourage you to apply and look forward to connecting with you!

At Boston Scientific, we recognize that nurturing a diverse and inclusive workplace helps us be more innovative and it is important in our work of advancing science for life and improving patient health. That is why we stand for inclusion, equality, and opportunity for all. By embracing the richness of our unique backgrounds and perspectives, we create a better, more rewarding place for our employees to work and reflect the patients, customers, and communities we serve. 

Boston Scientific Corporation has been and will continue to be an equal opportunity employer. To ensure full implementation of its equal employment policy, the Company will continue to take steps to assure that recruitment, hiring, assignment, promotion, compensation, and all other personnel decisions are made and administered without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, gender expression, veteran’s status, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information or any other protected class.

Boston Scientific maintains a prohibited substance free workplace. Pursuant to Va. Code § 2.2-4312 (2000), Boston Scientific is providing notification that the unlawful manufacture, sale, distribution, dispensation, possession, or use of a controlled substance or marijuana is prohibited in the workplace and that violations will result in disciplinary action up to and including termination.

Please be advised that certain US based positions, including without limitation field sales and service positions that call on hospitals and/or health care centers, require acceptable proof of COVID-19 vaccination status.  Candidates will be notified during the interview and selection process if the role(s) for which they have applied require proof of vaccination as a condition of employment.  Boston Scientific continues to evaluate its policies and protocols regarding the COVID-19 vaccine and will comply with all applicable state and federal law and healthcare credentialing requirements.   As employees of the Company, you will be expected to meet the ongoing requirements for your roles, including any new requirements, should the Company’s policies or protocols change with regard to COVID-19 vaccination.