Marketing Specialist - Professional Education
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Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. Youll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.

• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.

• An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution.

• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelors degree.

• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.

• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position works on site out of our Austin, TX site supporting the Neuromodulation division. Our Neuromodulation business is an area of expertise for Abbott. This business includes implantable devices compatible with mobile technology to help people who suffer from chronic pain and movement disorders. Our Solutions include the ProclaimTM and EternaTM SCS systems, the ProclaimTM DRG Neurostimulator, the only FDA approved DRG therapy and market leading radiofrequency ablation products. These non-opioid therapies allow us to provide interventional pain therapy to patients throughout the pain continuum. Our deep brain stimulation technology for progressive diseases help people manage their Parkinsons disease and essential tremor symptoms, steering away from side effects.

What Youll Work On

• Responsible for coordinating the health care provider contracting process to ensure new contracts and renewal contracts are processed in a timely manner.
• Processes health care provider invoices and education event invoices in a timely manner.
• Maintains an adequate level of demo product and marketing collateral and coordinates the ordering and shipping of it for educational programs.
• Will be responsible for managing access to the anatomy lab to include but not limited to; managing the calendar, ensuring lab users have completed necessary training and proper paperwork, managing dosimeters, maintaining lab supplies.
• Will work closely with employee health and safety as well as facilities to ensure lab safety policies are being adhered to.
• Responsible for assisting with onsite execution of professional education programs.
• Appropriately solicits and utilizes field, customer, and faculty feedback to understand the current selling, competitive, clinical and healthcare environment and suggests necessary changes to the education strategy to ensure customers are adequately trained.
• Maintains an in-depth knowledge of Abbott products, therapies, customers and business objectives to develop, implement and execute educational programs.
• Complies with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations, other regulatory requirements, company policies, operating procedures, processes, and task assignments. Maintains positive and cooperative communications and collaboration with all levels of employees, customers, contractors, and vendors.
• Submits expense and transparency reports in a timely and accurate manner.
• Other responsibilities as needed.

Were excited about you if you have:

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience
• 4 + years work experience
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent organizational and follow-up skills
• Ability to lead projects and events that involve multiple stakeholders across different departments
• 2 + years in event planning/coordination experience or equivalent
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint)
• Must be able to effectively communicate to health care professionals, foster and support the relationships and recommend approaches to most effectively leverage business needs with health care professionals via educational strategies
• Occasional or regularly scheduled overtime is a requirement of this position
• Occasional travel and weekend work to support courses and conferences (25%)

Preferred Qualifications

• Healthcare background
• Budget management experience
• Medical device background
• CVENT experience
• Experience with expense reporting Concur & Ariba experience
• Contracthub experience
• Experience with project management software such as Monday.com
• Travel booking experience
• Experience working in a broad and highly matrixed organization

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Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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The base pay for this position is $75,300.00 $150,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.