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When you join the team at Cordis, you become part of an inspiring mission to save lives, impacting millions of people and broadening access to life-saving cardiovascular and endovascular technology. As a global leader for over 60 years, we are dedicated to being the heart of innovation to transform cardiovascular care.
At Cordis, we're teammates, not just employees. We embrace an empowered and one-team culture where teammates are inspired to unleash their full potential. With diverse teams on a global scale, we believe the richness of our experiences and backgrounds enhances the careers of our teammates, the service to our customers, and ultimately, the lives of our patients.
If you love a challenge and are ready to have a direct, transformative and positive impact on the lives of millions, then Cordis is just the place for you.
We are the people behind the people who keep saving lives.
Responsibilities:
The Senior Medical Education Manager is responsible for strategically designing, implementing, and evaluating clinician training programs to support the safe and effective adoption of the Cordis cardiovascular portfolio in the United States. This role serves as a subject matter expert in clinical education and adult learning principles and owns the development and advancement of the Medical Education function ensuring that programs meet high standards of scientific accuracy, regulatory compliance, continuity with Marketing objectives and clinical relevance. This role leads and develops a team that shapes educational programs and designs Med Ed strategies that elevate disease awareness, support evidence-based practice, and strengthen partnerships with healthcare professionals. This individual is accountable for aligning team priorities, performance, and outcomes to meet Cordis business objectives.
Job Responsibilities
- Oversee the design and deliver medical education programs (workshops, proctoring pathways, virtual learning, symposia) that align with product and procedural needs.
- Ensures the team develops clinical training content, including curricula, procedural guides, and competency assessments.
- Guide and support team engagement with physician faculty and KOLs to organize peer-to-peer educational initiatives.
- Ensure appropriate leadership oversight and support for key training events and live case demonstrations.
- Lead identification of educational gaps, emerging trends and unmet needs using data, insights, and stakeholder feedback.
- Represent Medical Education as a cross-functional partner (Clinical, Marketing, Regulatory, Quality) to ensure content accuracy and compliance.
- Own and scale the Medical Education learn frameworks and training platforms along with organizational growth and operational strategy.
- Establish best practices and serve as a strategic advisor to internal teams on training methodologies.
- Create the universal framework for program analytics across Medical Education programs which will drive future strategic direction.
- Lead the development of Medical Education Faculty and programs for future technologies (IVL, Carotid, Peripheral) from pre-launch to post market.
- Develop end to end strategy supporting Medical Education digital marketing and execution internally and externally.
Qualifications:
- 12+ years of experience in medical education, clinical education, or field clinical roles within the medical device or procedural healthcare industry (combined education/experience considered).
- Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree in education, instructional design, or MBA preferred.
- Combination of education and experience will be considered.
Preferred Qualifications:
Competencies / Behaviors Required
- Strong understanding of interventional cardiovascular, peripheral and/or electrophysiology procedures, as well as lab workflows.
- Expertise in clinical instructional design for procedural training.
- Ability to translate clinical information into engaging, accessible education materials.
- Influence a team to demonstrate strong project management skills with attention to detail and timelines.
- Effective communicator with healthcare professionals and cross-functional colleagues.
- Consistently lead efforts to gather stakeholder input to ensure cross-functional alignment and prioritization (Mkt, Commercial, Sales Leaders)
- Collaborative mindset; able to lead a team within a matrixed organization.
- Problem-solving ability to adapt programs to evolving clinical needs.
- Comfort in cath lab or procedural environments during training or live case events.
- Data-driven approach to measuring program impact.
- High professional integrity and commitment to compliance.
- Possess strategic thought process that evolves complex concepts into broader Medical Education strategies.
- Ability to influence cross-functional work individually or through a team
Qualifications
- Minimum of 5-8 years of demonstrated leadership in leading strategy and managing a team (Marketing, Medical Education, Medical Affairs, or related function)
- Experience in interventional Cardiology and Peripheral technologies and disease state
- Proven experience designing and delivering training for physicians and cath lab staff.
- Familiarity with CME/CE requirements and compliance standards in healthcare education.
- Willingness to travel up to 40-50% domestically for educational programs and case support.
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Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
Cordis is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing equal opportunity for all teammates and applicants. At Cordis, our teammates all bring different strengths, experiences, and backgrounds, who share a passion for improving people's lives. Diversity not only includes race and gender identity, but also age, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, religion, and many other parts of one's identity. All our teammate's points of view are key to our success, and we believe inclusion is everyone's responsibility. Together, we strive to create and maintain working and learning environments that are inclusive, equitable and welcoming.