Principal Training and Education Specialist in Watford, United Kingdom

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.

A Day in the Life

Are you eager to play a pivotal role in driving the growth and success of individuals and teams who are dedicated to selling and supporting Medtronic’s TAVI therapy? Now’s your opportunity to make a meaningful impact! Tap into your TAVI expertise and passion for education to elevate our cutting-edge product portfolio. Your role will be to arm our sales teams with the essential knowledge and skills to confidently promote and sell Medtronic’s TAVI therapy, while also ensuring safe and effective case support. You’ll take the lead in driving training initiatives for our Structural Heart (SH) products across Western Europe, empowering others to excel in sales and beyond.

By blending your experience in sales, procedural support and preferably training, you’ll create and deliver comprehensive training programs for new and existing employees throughout the region. You will work closely together with global FTD partners as well as with SH country teams, marketing, and medical education. We value the unique perspective you bring and invite you to join a team that respects each other’s opinions and ideas, thrives on diversity, tackles challenges with creativity, have fun and drives impactful innovations.

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

• Act as Subject Matter Expert with respect to training employees in need of product, procedural or sales training to support the business in Western Europe (WE)

• Analyze clinical papers and create educational content out of the analysis

• Provide both classroom as well as virtual and in country Commercial & Clinical training.

• Administer oral and written examinations to field employees for certification and competency validation

• Collaborate with the Global team to help design and implement quality initiatives to promote positive procedure outcomes; including reviews, product complaints and investigations

• Ensure consistent delivery of product & procedural training curriculum across WE for different training offers

• Provide cross-functional representation and support to Physician Education (MedEd), Sales and Marketing Departments (up & down-stream), R & D and Clinical Affairs Departments

• Collaborate with country sales and clinical leaders to ensure understanding of their geography specific market dynamics and learning needs

• Recognize and understand competitive products, industry trends to include competitive selling talk tracks into all training curriculums will be an important focus of your role

• Stay current with therapy growth trends, society guidelines, and market dynamics will be critical to your successful assessment of future learning needs and recommendations for ongoing enhancements to curriculum. Champion innovation across Council, eventually recommending programs or projects, as well as conceptualizing and developing new approaches

Required knowledge and experience

• Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience in a field sale, clinical, training, or technical role

• TAVI Sales experience or TAVI Case support expertise throughout Europe, with proven results.

• Availability to travel for a 40% of working time

• Fluency in English, with preferably a second other European language (German, French, Spanish or Italian)

• Excellent influencing and consulting skills, with also excellent interpersonal and written communication

• Experience in Workshop development and creation to meet training needs, along with a detailed understanding of cardiac and vascular anatomy, physiology, pathology

• Ability to make timely and sound decisions, with a proven history of being a product and procedural expert and resource for your team, along with a capability to effectively organize and plan travel with frequent last-minute requests and changes and build strong relationships with key users and internal employees across all organizational levels

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.

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 90,000+ 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.

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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 90,000+ 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

These commitments set our team apart from the rest:

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.

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