Senior Principal Medical Science Liaison Spec
Medtronic
Summary
This position is remote to enhance our competitive edge and expand our cross-functional collaboration efforts. This role will require 75% of travel to enhance collaboration and ensure successful completion of projects.
Job description
The Senior Principal Medical Science Liaison Specialist will serve as a resource in Aortic. Provide expertise and leadership in the areas of physician education, clinical evidence interpretation, and Medtronic employee education.
Responsibilities
- Demonstrate extensive knowledge of all clinical and scientific data for our products and maintain a deep understanding of the science behind our products.
- Nurture deep, collegial relationships with key thought leaders, professional societies, and payers.
- Drive the adoption of tools and techniques for the safe and effective use of our products.
- Build relationships and demonstrate the clinical outcome and benefits of our products to thought leaders, key opinion leaders and customers.
- Provide perspective to field activities associated with growing existing products and bringing new products to market.
- Provide feedback to product development, quality, education, and marketing teams regarding product performance to improve future offerings.
Main Job Duties/Responsibilities
- Off/on label requests for medical information: Receive and respond to on-label and unsolicited off-label requests per Corporate Policy.
- Identify issues, practice or outcome trends from on/off-label requests, and communicate to internal stakeholders to spur further investigation or to inform strategic decision-making.
- Drive education for safe and effective use of our products through delivery of comprehensive, evidence-based responses to requests.
- Medical Intelligence: Gather feedback and insights from external stakeholders like Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs), clinician societies or patient advocacy groups to better inform Medtronic's research & development priorities as well as the strategic clinical research study plans.
- Strategic Partner: Build and strengthen relationships across Medtronic to support collaborative solutions that leverage our unique sales and service teams.
- Builds Alliances: Build and maintain high trust relationships based on technical expertise and clinical evidence with key customers across the region.
- Strategic Site Engagement: Collaborate across functions to develop and implement individual site engagement plans in support of scientific partnerships.
- Case support for complex procedural approaches to aortic therapy as the Medical Science resource in the field.
- Supports clinical study cases, acting at the direction of clinical study teams, to support clinical trial discussions at potential future or existing study sites.
Must Have, Minimum Requirements
- Bachelors Degree
- A minimum 10 years direct hospital or clinic experience
- Or a minimum of 8 years of direct hospital or clinic experience with an advanced degree
- Aortic or Vascular experience
Nice to Have
- Degree in biomedical engineering or nursing
- Experience teaching and educating medical personnel, peers, and technical support personnel
- Thorough working knowledge of medical terminology and the medical device industry
- Excellent customer service skills
- Proven ability to build/maintain positive relationships with peers and colleagues across organization levels
- Excellent interpersonal, written/verbal communication skills
- Ability to coordinate/participate in numerous tasks/projects in a fast-paced environment in an organized manner while meeting deadlines
- Strong work ethic in accomplishing objectives of the position
- Expertise with Microsoft tools and other business applications (i.e., SalesForce.com)
- Ability to meet vendor credentialing requirements
Requirements
- Bachelors Degree
- A minimum 10 years direct hospital or clinic experience
- Or a minimum of 8 years of direct hospital or clinic experience with an advanced degree
- Aortic or Vascular experience
- 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
- Ability to meet vendor credentialing requirements
Benefits
- Health, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
- Life Insurance
- Long-term Disability Leave
- Dependent Daycare Spending Account
- Tuition Assistance
- 401(k) Matching
- Short-term Disability
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Employee Assistance Program
- Incentive Plans
Company overview
Medtronic is a global healthcare technology leader and one of the world's largest medical device companies, founded in 1949 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The company operates in over 150 countries and employs more than 90,000 people worldwide. Medtronic's mission is to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life through innovative medical technologies. The company develops and manufactures devices and therapies to treat more than 70 health conditions, including cardiac devices, cranial and spine robotics, insulin pumps, surgical tools, patient monitoring systems, and more. With a rich history that began with the invention of the battery-powered pacemaker, Medtronic has grown into a diversified healthcare technology company with four main business units: Minimally Invasive Therapies Group, Diabetes Group, Restorative Therapies Group, and Cardiac and Vascular Group. The company's therapies help approximately 72 million people annually and represent a significant force in advancing medical technology to address some of humanity's most challenging health problems.