Medical Education Liaison (f/m/d), Central Europe - Home Office
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About the Role: We are looking for a Medical Education Liaison to support our Vascular business within the Medical Products Division in Central Europe (Germany, Switzerland and Austria). The role focuses on engagement with internal and external stakeholders, to drive educational programs that help physicians effectively treat patients using Gore devices.
In this role you will drive the execution of our external training and education plans and provide primary support to our Health Care Practitioner (HCP) consultants that provide these services. You will also interface regularly with appropriate commercial team members and maintain a high level of knowledge to ensure credible dissemination of scientific information and dialogue with HCP consultants.
Critical to success in this role is the commitment to identify and deliver continuous improvement around our ability to execute a world-class training and education program. Doing this will require deep clinical knowledge, effectiveness at developing and delivering HCP education and a commitment to work with cross-functional team members to ensure that our plans meet both business and compliance requirements.
This is a remote position, and you can work from your home office in most locations within Germany.
- Manage relationships with physician and provider consultants who provide training and education services
- Collaborate with business and cross-functional teams and provide input into training and education strategies while retaining functional independence
- Create and deliver an annual needs assessment for engagements required to support training and education services
- Participate in identification and engagement processes to ensure sufficient and adequate consultant resources for execution of training and education plan
- Provide direct on-site support for training and education services and events
- Participate in review of HCP consultant utilisation, exceptions, and trends with Compliance and Business Leadership
- Ensure that all activities and interactions are conducted with due regard to all applicable local and national laws, regulations, guidelines, codes of conduct, company policies and accepted standards of best practice
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or certification with a medical, science, technical, or business/marketing focus
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a sales, marketing, product management, or clinical training/support role in the cardiovascular medical device industry
- Minimum of 3 years of experience working with KOLs to plan and execute clinically-oriented training and education events
- Demonstrated ability to learn and utilise clinical information
- Proven ability to build relationships with clinician customers, in particular key physician thought leaders
- Demonstrated success influencing across cross-functional teams
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to engage in challenging negotiations both internally and externally
- Willingness to travel up to 50%, within Europe
- Excellent command of the German language; speaking, reading, writing and negotiation skills
- Business English speaking, reading and writing skills
Desired Qualifications:
- Advanced degree in medicine, science, engineering or marketing
- Experience with annual planning of HCP training and education events, including use of Annual Needs Assessments or similar tools
- Experience working with vascular surgery products
Remote Working Arrangements are permitted for Associates, with appropriate approval and compliance with Gore’s remote working policies, from the country in which they are employed.
What We Offer: At Gore, we offer comprehensive, competitive rewards in the form of compensation and benefits. Among these are work-life balance and sports programs, Associate Stock Ownership Plan, company pension plan, childcare subsidies, generous holiday entitlement, flexible working program as well as subsidized cafeterias and coffee areas. Within Gore, you will find a unique culture, diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, and opportunities for growth and development. Learn more at gore.com/careers
We believe in the strength of a diverse workforce and inclusive work environment. In support of our values and continued success we are proud of Associates around the world who support an inclusive work environment, strive to reflect the diversity of the communities where we operate, and ensure all Associates and external partners are treated with fairness, dignity and respect.
At Gore we are looking for qualified and motivated individuals. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.
Our Talent Acquisition Team welcomes your questions at +49 (0)89 4612 2800.
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