Senior Surgical Education & Training Specialist

Marketing         ·             Valencia (CA), United States           ·         Full time

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We offer exceptional career opportunities through market-leading brands from consumer to medical, products and services that keep pushing hearing care forward, and a culture where you can quickly belong and perform at your best.

If you want the freedom to explore, opportunities to grow, and make positive change on people lives through your work, this is the place for you.

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Valencia (CA), United States

Senior Surgical Education & Training Specialist

Overview

The Senior Surgical Education and Training Specialist at Advanced Bionics will:

• Implement and deliver customer education at the surgical level within the North American and Global markets.
• Implement and deliver surgical training to internal AB staff.
• Collaborate with Global Education and Training to develop and execute surgical strategy that maintains technology momentum, creates AB preference, and engages customers.

What you’ll do:

• Facilitate and support surgical on-site and off-site KOL-led engagements as the AB lead to drive AB preference and engage customers.  The AB lead serves as the expert on teaching customers the value and benefits of AB technology to support their business and patient management, and leverages the hands-on surgical knowledge of the KOL to support AB business.
• Define, coordinate, and lead the execution of education on the value and benefits of AB’s surgical portfolio to AB customers through in-person and virtual training.
• Support launch of new surgical devices, including creating and delivering training and messaging globally.
• Develop internal-facing and external-facing educational curriculum based on internal know-how (in agreement with R&T, R&D, Clinical Research, and Product Marketing) in video, eLearning, presentation, and PDF formats to engage surgeons to drive AB differentiation and preference.
• Define, coordinate, and lead the execution of continued internal training efforts to ensure that Global AB staff members represent the safe, effective, and best use of Class III Medical Devices to adequately support surgical customers.
• Manage technical information related to AB surgical products throughout the product lifecycle, maintaining and documenting global knowledge base.
• Support overall Global Education and Training and Marketing initiatives, including developing and delivering professional and consumer-facing educational materials and training.
• Manage timelines and collaborate interdepartmentally to execute projects on deadlines and within budget .
• Other duties as assigned.

Travelling Requirement:  Up to 40%

What you bring to the team:

Education: Degree in Audiology (Masters, AuD, or other) or BS / BA in science or business area

Work Experience

• 3-5 years in training or sales in an audiological or medical device setting
• Understanding of how CI surgery is performed and relevant anatomy related to CI

Personal Competencies: Understanding of the value that a strong training program can bring to a company

Social  Competencies:  Strong communicator (written and verbal) and polished presenter

Professional Competencies: Ability to work effectively across multiple functions to drive projects from concept to completion; passion and ability to develop and deliver impactful training

Nice to Have: CRM proficiency

Language(s)/ Level: English/ Fluent

Nice to Have: Language skills in addition to English

Further Requirements: Must be willing and available to travel domestically and internationally

Our offer:

• Exciting and challenging work environment
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Training and development opportunities – we believe every employee deserves a development plan. Come, learn, and grow with us!

Don’t meet all the criteria?  If you’re willing to go all in and learn we’d love to hear from you! 

We love to work with great people and strongly believe that a diverse team makes us better.  We guarantee every person equal treatment in regard to employment and opportunity for employment, regardless of race, color, creed/religion, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, age, mental or physical disability.

We thank all applicants in advance; however only individuals selected for an interview will be contacted.  All applications will be kept confidential. Sonova is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants who require reasonable accommodation to complete the application and/or interview process should notify the Senior Manager, Human Resources.

Pay Ranges(SoCal): $90,852/yr – $136,278/yr

Health Benefits & Perks:

• Medical, dental and vision coverage*
• Health Savings, Health Reimbursement, Flexible Spending/Dependent Care Accounts
• TeleHealth options
• 401k plan with company match*
• Company paid life/ad&d insurance
  • Additional supplemental life/ad&d coverage available
• Short/Long-Term Disability coverage (STD/LTD)
  • STD LTD Buy-ups available
• Accident/Hospital Indemnity coverage
• Legal/ID Theft Assistance
• PTO & paid holidays*
• Employee Assistance Program

Plan rules/offerings dependent upon group Company/location.

Sonova is an equal opportunity employer

We team up. We grow talent. We collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds to win with the best team in the market place. We guarantee every person equal treatment in regard to employment and opportunity for employment, regardless of a candidate’s ethnic or national origin, religion, sexual orientation or marital status, gender, genetic identity, age, disability or any other legally protected status.

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