Job Description

HIDA is seeking with healthcare industry experience to plan and manage live conference education and to work on challenging industry issues. The Manager, Education, works on live events and year-round programming. Experience in the healthcare supply chain, healthcare contracting, or healthcare distribution is strongly preferred to ensure educational programs remain relevant and valuable to industry professionals.

 The Health Industry Distributors Association (HIDA) is the trade association serving medical products distributors and their trading partners. HIDA members deliver essential medical products to the nation’s hospitals, nursing homes, laboratories, home care, and physician practices. HIDA is a leading voice on matters important to the healthcare distribution industry as well as the healthcare supply chain.

HIDA offices are located in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, and operate on a flexible 3-day in-office, 2 days remote schedule. This position requires travel 3-8 times per year.

This position provides an exciting career opportunity to design and plan impactful programs, inform, and educate industry leaders, and help businesses grow. This position reports to the Director, Education and Industry Affairs and works closely with other HIDA staff members, including marketing, membership, events, meetings, and others.

Essential Responsibilities

Live Events:

Manage educational programming at key conferences and events, including but not limited to:

• Responsible for 8 events annually

General Responsibilities:

• Content and program planning:
•  Ensure that programs are engaging, relevant, highly rated, and continuously improved.
• Program execution may include needs assessment, topic and speaker research, speaker recruitment and preparation, and program evaluation.
• Project management: Create and manage timelines to ensure successful program execution.
• Attendance: Work closely with marketing and membership teams to achieve attendance and revenue goals.
• Program logistics: Coordinate with the meetings department on logistical aspects of live events.
• Registration processes and event reporting

Duties May Also Include:

· Assisting with industry affairs

· Coordinating with advisory councils on conference content and programming between live events.

· Other responsibilities as assigned

Minimum Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual should possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities listed and meet the amount of education, training and/or work experience required.

Education/Experience

· Bachelor’s degree

· Three or more years of relevant professional experience.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

· Experience with adult education, including live events

· Familiarity with healthcare distribution, including healthcare contracting or general knowledge of supply chain preferred.

· Excellent project management skills: highly organized and detail-oriented, ability to manage multiple priorities, overlapping timelines, and consistently meets deadlines.

· Strong written and oral communication skills

· Strong customer service orientation with both internal and external customers

· Competency with Microsoft Office programs and database management software

· Ability to work as a team player and team leader and collaborate with members, staff, and external contacts.

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