Prof Ed Operations Lead

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Operations Lead building Abiomed’s event operations department for professional education and healthcare solutions. Standardising compliant processes, budgets, suppliers and systems across EMEA.

Responsibilities:

  • Build, lead, coach and develop a high-performing operations department supporting Healthcare Solutions and Professional Education events across EMEA
  • Set priorities, allocate workload and flex team capacity for planned activities and urgent requests
  • Streamline and standardise end-to-end event operations through processes, service standards, templates, workflows, escalation pathways and decision rights
  • Establish scalable planning, intake and prioritisation processes
  • Ensure events and operational activities meet compliance, governance, documentation and audit-readiness requirements
  • Own department budget oversight and monitor event-related spend and supplier invoices
  • Act as senior escalation point for operational issues
  • Define and monitor service levels, operational KPIs and dashboards
  • Lead continuous improvement initiatives and remove operational bottlenecks
  • Drive adoption of CVENT and Veeva Vault
  • Manage strategic supplier relationships
  • Partner with Professional Education, Healthcare Solutions, Finance, Procurement, Legal, Compliance, Marketing, Regulatory and external providers
  • Provide leadership with operational updates, capacity forecasts, budget visibility, risk assessments and scaling recommendations
  • Manage operational specialists responsible for contracting, grants, procurement administration, project coordination, communications, participant management, logistics, booking coordination, COLADA administration, CVENT implementation and Veeva Vault governance

Requirements:

  • Significant experience leading event operations, professional education operations or a comparable service-delivery function in a complex, regulated environment
  • Proven ability to lead and develop teams, allocate resources effectively and increase organisational capacity
  • Demonstrated success in streamlining and standardising processes to support growth, improve service levels and deliver measurable efficiency gains
  • Strong judgement and composure when managing competing priorities, urgent issues and last-minute requests across multiple countries and stakeholders
  • Strong understanding of compliance, governance, documentation and audit-ready execution
  • Experience managing budgets, supplier performance and delivery trade-offs within defined financial constraints
  • Strong cross-functional leadership and communication skills
  • Experience using event-management and workflow platforms to improve scalability, visibility and data quality
  • Fluency in English is required
  • German skills are beneficial
  • CVENT, COLADA or Veeva Vault experience would be an advantage

Benefits:

  • Annual bonus with set target (% of pay) depending on pay grade / location, based on employees’ and companies’ performance of the previous calendar year
  • Vacation days
  • Parental leave for a minimum of 12 weeks
  • Bereavement leave
  • Caregiver leave
  • Volunteer leave
  • Well-being reimbursement
  • Programs for financial, physical and mental health
  • Service anniversary and recognition awards
  • Several insurance plans for employees and, in some locations, eligible dependents