National Medical Education Associate Manager - On-site

The Associate Medical Education Manager plays a key role in creating and delivering impactful educational programs that support healthcare professionals, strengthen customer relationships, and advance the Trauma & Extremities business. This position is responsible for the strategy, planning, coordination, and execution of customer-facing medical education initiatives that enhance product knowledge, clinical expertise, and engagement across the orthopedic trauma community.

This position requires the selected candidate to be on-site in Mahwah, NJ.

What you will do:

• Lead the full lifecycle planning and execution of national medical education programs, including cadaveric labs, surgeon education events, workshops, professional education meetings, and large-scale educational events.
• Manage all aspects of program and event execution from strategic kickoff and planning through onsite leadership, attendee experience management, and post-program reconciliation.
• Responsible for developing and managing customer-facing educational strategy.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders and lead cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact educational events and programs.
• Negotiate with third-party vendors, venues, hotels, travel providers, and event partners to maximize value and cost savings.
• Coordinate program design, educational objectives, and event logistics with faculty and key stakeholders.
• Ensure all educational content, presentations, and meeting materials are reviewed and approved through established Compliance and Legal processes prior to program execution.
• Manage national education program budgets, event budgets, expense tracking, forecasting, invoice processing, and financial reconciliation activities.
• Coordinate complex travel, lodging, venue, catering, transportation, and onsite logistics for surgeon faculty, healthcare professionals, and internal commercial teams in partnership with approved travel agencies and vendors.
• Plan and execute multiple concurrent national meetings, training programs, workshops, conferences, and educational events while maintaining exceptional attention to detail and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Develop a network of key opinion leaders (KOLs) to support platform offerings and assist in developing communication strategies for target customer audiences.
• Collaborate with key opinion leaders to design, plan, and facilitate educational events that elevate the brand within the orthopedic community.
• Demonstrate technical expertise to facilitate HCP medical education programs, including agenda development, speaker coordination, content management, and onsite event leadership.
• Recommend and implement plans for medical education commercialization, voice-of-customer initiatives, and onsite educational programs. Develop key relationships with industry thought leaders, customer organizations, institutions, and event stakeholders in collaboration with marketing leaders.
• Engage with thought leaders across the industry to continuously enhance and expand educational offerings as Orthopedic Trauma evolves.
• Lead the creation of Medical Education programs and events that align with strategic plans and business objectives. Collaborate with marketing leaders to support business priorities and new product launches.
• Develop metrics to analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of educational programs, events, delivery methods, costs, attendee engagement, and outcomes.
• Engage key stakeholders to ensure appropriate educational program utilization and successful event outcomes.
• Define performance criteria used for evaluating business trends, program effectiveness, event success, and organizational impact.
• Prepare and review charts, graphs, tables, and other business performance tools for quarterly and annual leadership presentations.
• Maintain awareness of emerging trends in medical education, adult learning, event management, and instructional design, and adjust programs accordingly.
• Manage current educational resources and develop new tools, platforms, and event experiences for product training programs and workshops to enhance educational quality and engagement.
• Partner with marketing communications to leverage social media, third-party applications, email campaigns, and other channels to promote educational programs and events.
• Preferred experience includes large-scale event planning, conference management, meeting planning, travel logistics and planning, faculty engagement, venue selection, contract negotiation, attendee management, and execution of complex national educational events.

What you will need:

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree required
• 6+ years of work experience required

Preferred:

• MBA preferred
• Medical device, Medical Education, Pharma or relevant experience preferred
• Preferred experience in event planning, conference management, hospitality, meeting planning, corporate events, trade shows, customer engagement programs, or large-scale educational events.
• Experience planning and executing complex, high-touch events involving travel logistics, venue management, vendor coordination, budget management, attendee experience, and onsite event leadership is strongly preferred.
• Backgrounds in hospitality management, conference services, event marketing, meeting planning, or destination management preferred

United States of America Pay Ranges:

• US20: $107,200 - $178,600 USD Annual