• The Physician Program Director (PPD) focuses on establishing formal Impella programs through sustainable relationships with account stakeholders and key opinion leaders (KOLs) within the field of hemodynamic support. • The PPD is responsible for developing and managing strategic relationships with key opinion leaders, thought leaders, and subject matter experts to support the organization’s scientific, medical and commercial goals. • This role ensures effective engagement, collaboration, and communication between the company and its network of experts to enhance brand credibility, education, and innovation. • The PPD represents all aspects of Abiomed and acts as a field liaison to connect hospitals to internal resources such as the medical office, research, marketing, and executive teams. • The PPD will be responsible for collaborating with hospitals and hospital administrators to identify areas for program efficiencies through best practice implementation, protocol development, and workflow improvement, ensuring long-term program sustainability. • The PPD will work to identify program gaps and align internal resources as appropriate to support the hospitals' goals. • The PPD will collaborate with systems of care and Integrated Delivery Networks (IDNs) to support the implementation of best practices across the hospitals within the system. • Develop and implement a comprehensive KOL engagement strategy aligned with brand and therapeutic area objectives. • Develop sustainable relationships with designated accounts, health systems, key opinion leaders and stakeholders, to impact formalization of Impella programs and optimize outcomes. • Understand hospital market dynamics, uncover gaps in operational efficiency and patient care, and deploy appropriate tools that will ultimately allow us to reach more patients. • Present complex health economic information to influential and diverse groups in a way that is engaging, credible, and easily understood. • Advocate on behalf of heart recovery programs to health system administration & engage with hospital administrators to gain alignment on projects. • Identify and develop new and emerging key opinion leaders through key customer visits, HQ executive programs, regional education courses and local programs. • Serve as a corporate liaison between Key Opinion Leaders, IDNs, Healthcare System leaders, and Abiomed’s Executive team, Management, Marketing, Clinical Research and Sales. • Collaborate cross functionally with internal partners to align KOL initiatives. • Execute and facilitate important and integral customer meetings at major medical tradeshows. • Communicate routinely with all members of the sales and Abiomed leadership team as outlined.