Chief Medical Officer (US Remote)

 

 

With a passion for life

 

Join our diverse teams of passionate people and a career that allows you to develop both personally and professionally. At Getinge we exist to make life-saving technology accessible for more people. To make a true difference for our customers – and to save more lives, we need team players, forward thinkers, and game changers. 

Are you looking for an inspiring career? You just found it.

 

This role is open to US and EUR base candidates
Compensation depending upon location

 

 

Job Overview

The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) serves as the senior clinical leader at Getinge, responsible for guiding the medical and scientific strategy of the company’s product portfolio. This role ensures that all medical device development, regulatory submissions, and post-market activities are grounded in clinical evidence, aligned with patient safety, and compliant with global healthcare standards. The CMO plays a critical role in shaping innovation, supporting regulatory and commercial efforts, leading the Medical Affairs, Clinical Affairs, Professional Affairs and Medical Education groups and serving as the voice of the clinician and patient within the company.

The position is responsible for the development and management of personnel and programs in medical affairs, professional affairs, clinical affairs and medical education. The position is capable of educating and training others.

 

Job Responsibilities and Essential Duties

• The Chief Medical Officer coordinates the team of Medical Professionals within Getinge to ensure compliance. He/she provides expert medical opinions and recommendations to all departments including Quality and Compliance, Regulatory Affairs, R&D, marketing, and clinical research, and surgeons training, upon request from the respective functions.
• Quality and Compliance
• Responsible to create consistent and clear processes to Medical Affairs across the Getinge businesses, in collaboration with the team of Medical Officers
• Delivers direct physician support to quality assurance group for review of product complaints, MDR reporting criteria, health risk assessments, and product performance criteria.
• Provides medical management of post-marketing adverse events and medical oversight of safety projects.
• Conducts medical review of safety reports and associated QA documentation.
• Reviews and edits protocols to ensure accuracy, consistency with standard of care, logistical ease, and internal consistency with GETINGE requirements.
• Works closely with the Quality, Compliance and Regulatory teams to analyze adverse events and formulate an appropriate response back to the customer as well as if required the Food and Drug Administration.
• Represent the Company with regulatory and legislative agencies, globally addressing the scientific and medical/health aspects of our product portfolio.

Advance R&D:

• Reviews as independent reviewer on internal new technology/products ideas; on surgical techniques and instrumentation -
• Independent medical opinion during early-stage evaluation of external opportunities to support strategic initiatives of Business Development team.
• Suggestions for the application of new technologies in novel ways to solve complex medical device needs.
• Provides independent reviews, obtains, or otherwise provides medical input on content of package inserts instructions for use, brochures, advertisement, products bulletins, literature, etc.
• Continuously maintains thorough and up-to-date knowledge of surgical trends, advances, efficacy of currently available therapies and competitive clinical landscape.
• Provides medical input to legal counsel on product litigation, claims management, investigations, and other matters demanding medical expertise.

   Clinical Studies:

• Establish common practice within Getinge on clinical protocols, clinical study-related documents, and clinical study reports.
• Coordinates medical leadership in the evaluation and management of investigator- initiated proposals.
• Review and approve as an independent clinical reviewer, medical hands-on operational support to teams in clinical trial planning, protocol development, investigator selection, training of internal and external personnel, and medical monitoring for trial safety, data analysis/interpretation, and quality control.

Medical Education:

• Manages a team of clinicians tasked to develop and implement customer and patient focuse