Associate PACE Specialist - CST Medical Education

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A Day in the Life

At Medtronic Neuroscience, we bring innovation, expertise, and purpose together to improve care for people living with neurological, spinal, and chronic pain conditions. Our technologies help restore function, improve quality of life, and support better outcomes for patients around the world.

Cranial & Spinal Technologies (CST) advances surgical care for patients with spine and cranial conditions. We develop innovative solutions that help clinicians plan, navigate, and deliver procedures with accuracy, efficiency, and patient outcomes in mind. Check us out on LinkedIn: Medtronic CST

The Associate PACE Specialist is part of the CST Medical Education team and supports the program management of education programs funded through donations to third-party organizations, otherwise known as Third Party Management. This role helps ensure donated funding supports appropriate, high-quality education experiences while meeting business objectives, customer needs, and applicable company policies.

In this role, you will be responsible for coordinating the end-to-end management of third-party education programs, including program intake, funding documentation, logistics, onsite execution, monitoring, and closeout. You will collaborate with third-party organizations, internal stakeholders, vendors, and other partners to ensure programs are delivered on time, within scope, and with a high level of customer service.

Primary responsibilities:

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

• Supports the end-to-end program management of education programs funded through donations to third-party organizations, including intake, review, approval, execution, monitoring, and closeout.
• Coordinates with third-party organizations and internal stakeholders to confirm program objectives, funding requirements, deliverables, timelines, documentation, and logistics.
• Orders, receives, organizes, and coordinates delivery of all equipment and materials required for supported programs. Attends programs onsite and performs hands-on setup, station preparation, execution, and teardown in active training or laboratory environments.
• Tracks program status, approved funding, commitments, deliverables, and required documentation in applicable systems and trackers.
• Communicates with internal and external partners, including third-party organizations, sales representatives, vendors, and Operating Unit stakeholders.
• Ensures programs align with approved objectives, applicable donation and third-party management requirements, medical education standards, compliance requirements, and established PACE processes.
• Coordinates in a fast-paced environment in an organized manner while meeting deadlines and maintaining attention to detail.

• Travel approximately 50% of the time, including frequent overnight travel and some weekends. This hands-on role may involve extended periods of standing, walking, bending, lifting, carrying, loading, unloading, and moving program materials and equipment.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting healthcare professional education, medical education, clinical training, or healthcare events.

• Experience with third-party management, grant or donation administration, program coordination, or funding-supported initiatives.
• Experience working with clinicians, physician faculty, third-party organizations, vendors, or other healthcare stakeholders.
• Familiarity with medical-device, surgical, or healthcare environments.
• Knowledge of adult learning principles, program governance, or education program best practices.
• Experience with event, travel, budget, equipment, vendor, or program reconciliation coordination.

For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.

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.

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. …