At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

In this exciting role as a Principal Field Clinical Specialist, you will provide day-to-day field clinical study support, technical and education support, and site management, coordination and training for the Mitral and Tricuspid (M&T) Therapies clinical programs. This role will promote clinical programs through education of current and new investigators, new technologies and case support to achieve safe patient outcomes and company objectives. The M&T Structural Heart Business is one of the fastest growing businesses in the medical device industry and expanding rapidly to serve patients globally.

The Structural Heart and Aortic integrated operating unit offers minimally-invasive approaches to restore proper structure and function of the heart and the aorta. We focus on the transcatheter replacement or repair of the four heart valves—aortic, pulmonic, mitral, tricuspid—and the placement of stent grafts to treat aneurysms and dissections of the body’s largest artery, the aorta.

Join a diverse team of innovators who bring their worldview, their unique backgrounds, and their individual life experiences to work every day. It’s no accident — we work hard to cultivate a workforce that reflects our patients and partners. We believe it’s the only way to drive healthcare forward and remain a global leader in medical technology and solutions.

This role will cover Germany, and also other European markets, and is a remote role. This means your home/remote location is the primary work location. There is a facility-based immunization requirement for this position. Therefore, full Measles immunization is a requirement to fill the open position.

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

• Conducts on-site education and / or consulting

• Supports field personnel in providing the best possible outcomes and service for Medtronic customers

• Partners with cross functional teams to develop and execute plans for enrolment

• Participates in conventions, forums, and meetings to increase product awareness

• Works closely with Therapy Development Management to provide customer case and education support

• Identifies and facilitates execution on growth opportunities with the Clinical Support Team

• Serves as a technical resource to support a specific medical product or solution

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• University degree and at least 6 years of clinical support work experience (e.g. as a field clinical specialist/clinical engineer or relevant hospital experience)

• Several years of Structural Heart experience / experience with trans-septal procedures (TAVR, Mitral, Tricuspid, LAAC, etc.)

• Experience with echocardiographic imaging of the mitral and/or tricuspid valve

• Clinical Research experience in structural heart or other medical devices

• Proficient in MS Office applications: Excel, PowerPoint, Word, MS Project (or similar scheduling software), project management techniques and tools.

• Business fluent in German and English language

Experience using CT segmentation and analysis software (3Mensio or other) is a clear advantage. Experience in presenting, writing and teaching clinical and medical information as well as experience in Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and/or regulatory compliance guidelines for clinical trials is a further bonus.

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. 

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create.  We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
 

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people. 
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here