Clinical Innovation Lead

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Job Description:

3M Health Care is now Solventum

At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers’ toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. Because people, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue.

We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you.

Clinical Innovation Lead

Role Summary

The Clinical Innovation Lead serves as the clinical voice within R&D, bringing real‑world orthodontic experience to shape product strategy, substantiate product claims, and drive breakthrough innovations across digital portals, treatment workflows, and attachment/protocol strategies.

This role bridges clinical practice, engineering, and product development, ensuring that our solutions are grounded in clinical reality, differentiated versus competitors, and deliver meaningful value to doctors and patients.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

As a(n) Clinical Innovation Lead, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

Key Responsibilities

Clinical Insight & Product Differentiation

• Provide hands‑on orthodontic expertise to inform product requirements, clinical claims, and validation strategies across the portfolio.
• Translate real‑world treatment challenges into clear clinical requirements, design inputs, and success metrics for Clinical Engineering and R&D teams.
• Support the development and defense of clinically relevant product claims through research, evidence generation, and clinical rationale.

Innovation in Treatment Design & Workflows

• Drive innovation in treatment protocols, attachment strategies, staging logic, and workflow design, with a focus on predictability, efficiency, and scalability.
• Contribute to the evolution of digital portals and end‑to‑end clinical workflows, ensuring they align with how orthodontists diagnose, plan, and treat patients in practice.
• Partner closely with engineering and digital teams to ideate, prototype, and evaluate next‑generation clinical solutions.

Competitive Benchmarking & Market Intelligence

• Lead and support clinical benchmarking against competitors, including comparative evaluation of treatment approaches, attachments, protocols, and digital experiences.
• Identify clinical strengths, gaps, and opportunities to strengthen portfolio differentiation and inform roadmap priorities.
• Provide thought leadership on emerging clinical trends, techniques, and technologies shaping orthodontic care.

Cross‑Functional Collaboration

• Collaborate deeply with Clinical Engineering, R&D, Digital, Marketing, and Commercial teams to ensure strong clinical alignment across development and launch activities.
• Act as a trusted clinical partner in cross‑functional forums, balancing clinical efficacy with scalability, efficiency, and business objectives.
• Support internal education and alignment by clearly communicating clinical rationale, tradeoffs, and implications to non‑clinical stakeholders.

Your Skills and Expertise