Senior Training & Education Specialist in Watford

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.

Medtronic is hiring a Training and Education Specialist committed to Affera, a system designed to address procedural challenges faced by the electrophysiology (EP) community while maintaining a high standard of safety and efficacy for patients by enabling a single transeptal, zero-fluoroscopy, and zero-exchange workflow, eventually offering the flexibility to use either pulsed field or radiofrequency energy. In the role, you will play a pivotal role in upscaling the EP and Mapping/Navigation systems knowledge of the existing field force members, eventually reporting to a Senior Training and Education Manager for Western Europe. For this remote position, you will be working with Western Europe.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Plan, develop, deliver and coordinate in-house product training programs for field support personnel and customers, eventually obtaining information needed to prepare in-house training programs, preparing training material, developing course content, determining methodology, coordinating the development of training aids.
• Ensure training program meets company and customer objectives, maintain communication with customers to ensure effectiveness of training, utilize trainers with technical expertise, continuously revise lesson plans to meet new training requirements and keep technical information up to date.
• Strongly influence the design of new indication and product launch education plans based on business strategy, with a significant focus on functional results.
• Design and execute creative and engaging Field Sales and Technical Consultants Education programs that are targeted, purposeful, and increase electrophysiology knowledge and skills in procedures and cardiac ablation therapies, to enable the commercial organization meets its objectives.
• Collaborate with cross functional groups (Product Marketing, Sales, Product Development, Services, Legal, Quality, and Regulatory) to create education programs, curricula, course materials and measurements that support business unit strategies and are compliant with regulatory, quality systems, and Business Conduct Standards.
• Demonstrate education effectiveness through systematic program evaluation and continuous improvement strategy, adjust swiftly to shifting priorities in order to satisfy business requirements.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or advanced, master’s degree.
• 5-7 years of relevant experience in a clinical lab setting, clinical training, field sales/support in medical device, healthcare industry.
• At least 5 years of Electro Physiology (EP) Mapping experience.
• Fluency in English, with fluency in further European languages eventually being a strong asset.
• Availability to travel for up to 60% of working time.
• Collaboration and Inclusion skills, ability to develop and foster strong relationships with external customers, passion to develop and deliver impactful training.
• Strong working knowledge of Training & Education of Medical device program curriculum build and delivery processes with ability to work autonomously to provide strong organizational impact.

Medtronic is committed to safeguarding the principle of non-discrimination in employment on the basis of sex, sexual orientation or gender identity. This commitment applies to all company personnel without exception. This is done with the understanding and conviction that equal treatment and opportunities in the workplace must be guaranteed, ultimately ensuring an inclusive working environment.

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.

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

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 95,000+ 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.

We change lives. Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives.

We build extraordinary solutions as one team. With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough.

This life-changing career is yours to engineer. By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will…

• Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world.
• Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities.
• Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning.

Experiences that put people first. Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need.

Life-transforming technologies. No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms.

Better outcomes for our world. Here, it’s about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls.

Insight-driven care. Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You’re shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care.

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.