Training & Education Manager

Medtronic

  • Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant
  • Vast
  • Voltijds
  • 1 maand geleden
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 Join a mission-driven team that’s transforming how spinal and cranial therapies are delivered. As Training & Education Manager, you'll lead the design, delivery, and continuous evolution of our field education programs — empowering commercial and clinical teams with the knowledge and confidence to improve patient outcomes through innovation.You’ll manage a high-performing team and oversee all aspects of product and procedural training strategy, ensuring consistency, compliance, and effectiveness across multiple programs. From developing content to mentoring talent, you’ll play a pivotal role in enabling scalable growth and commercial success across the Cranial & Spinal Technologies (CST) business.Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
  • Design and lead impactful training programs for sales representatives, clinical specialists, and field teams, utilizing adult learning methodologies (e.g., ADDIE) and aligning content with evolving technologies, procedural standards, and business objectives
  • Develop and maintain curriculum and materials for new product launches and therapy expansions, ensuring educational content supports quality standards, regulatory requirements, and procedural excellence
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with Product Marketing, Research & Development, Regulatory, Legal, Physician Education, and other stakeholders to ensure training is relevant, compliant, and strategically aligned
  • Manage and mentor a high-performing team of training professionals and/or supervisors, driving engagement, performance, professional development, and inclusion through clear KPIs, coaching, and talent development practices
  • Monitor and evaluate training effectiveness, applying a continuous improvement mindset to enhance program outcomes and field performance, while leveraging technical trainers for specialized instruction
  • Maintain active communication with field teams and customers, ensuring training relevance, procedural fluency, and clinical expertise, while fostering a strong learning culture across the organization
  • Exercise operational leadership and influence, independently managing complex training initiatives, proposing process improvements, and impacting decisions around resource allocation, stakeholder satisfaction, and educational innovation
Required Knowledge and Experience:
  • Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum 5 years of relevant, leadership experience in clinical training, field support, or healthcare education in a medical device
  • Experience managing a team, with a proven track record of coaching, developing, and retaining talent
  • Advanced skills in curriculum development, instructional design, and training delivery
  • Strong communication, project management, and cross-functional collaboration skills
Experience in spinal or cranial technologies, neurosurgery, or orthopedics, familiarity with tools such as Articulate, Adobe Creative Suite, Camtasia, SharePoint, and Smartsheet, experience building training programs for product launches or indication expansions, clinical or professional certifications (e.g., IBHRE, RCIS, Instructional Design) and a passion for teaching and a demonstrated ability to create engaging, results-driven learning experiences are considered advantaged for this role.Physical Job RequirementsThe 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 & CompensationMedtronic 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 MedtronicWe 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.Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity

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