Post Market Surveillance Adverse Event Analyst (Surgical OR Nurse Experience preferred)

Company Description

At Intuitive, we are united behind our mission: we believe that minimally invasive care is life-enhancing care. Through ingenuity and intelligent technology, we expand the potential of physicians to heal without constraints.
As a pioneer and market leader in robotic-assisted surgery, we strive to foster an inclusive and diverse team, committed to making a difference. For more than 25 years, we have worked with hospitals and care teams around the world to help solve some of healthcare's hardest challenges and advance what is possible.
Intuitive has been built by the efforts of great people from diverse backgrounds. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere. We strive to foster an inclusive culture built around diversity of thought and mutual respect. We lead with inclusion and empower our team members to do their best work as their most authentic selves.
Passionate people who want to make a difference drive our culture. Our team members are grounded in integrity, have a strong capacity to learn, the energy to get things done, and bring diverse, real world experiences to help us think in new ways. We actively invest in our team members to support their long-term growth so they can continue to advance our mission and achieve their highest potential.
Join a team committed to taking big leaps forward for a global community of healthcare professionals and their patients. Together, let's advance the world of minimally invasive care.

Job Description

Primary Function of Position:

The Regulatory Post Market Surveillance Adverse Event Analyst investigates customer complaints related to injury / adverse event / or death cases and makes reporting conclusions, files regulatory reports, and ensures completeness and consistency of complaint documentation. This role includes live telephone intake and documentation of death and injury events phoned in to Intuitive by company representatives and customers. The AE Analyst is responsible for the actions or review of the complaint from intake through closure.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Investigating serious injury / adverse event and death complaints daily
• Perform the preliminary classification of complaints including reportability triage and decision making
• Conduct complaint investigations including following up with surgeons and other health care professionals via phone and email
• Answer live, incoming phone calls for Adverse Events from Customer Service, Technical Service, Intuitive Representatives and hospital site contacts (e.g., surgeons, physicians, operating room personnel). Collect in-depth information as available, and document complaint into the CRM system
• Perform reportability determinations in conjunction with medical safety officer, as necessary
• Provide input to clinical conclusion to be included in the complaint file and regulatory reports
• Escalate complaints that require additional review to engineering, medical safety officer, clinical development engineering, etc.
• Accurately select Risk (Hazard, Harms, Severity, matching Clinical Risk Assessment line item) and IMDRF codes
• Review product analysis investigation and establish cause / contribution of event to device
• Draft and file medical device and vigilance Reports
• Evaluate documentation for completeness and consistency
• Approve final complaint file for closure after all applicable actions are completed
• Manage complaint workload to required timeliness and goals
• Collaborate with internal teams including clinical development engineering, human factors, medical safety office, risk management, engineering, and other departments as needed to provide relevant and critical clinical information related to adverse events
• Adherence to standard operating procedures and guidance documents across the organization for reporting, investigation and compliance related to post market requirements
• Analyze complaint data to identify trends, issues, or systemic discrepancies
• Recognize and escalate trends and alert limits or process triggers of safety concerns to defined escalation path to communicate these concerns
• Provide the risk management team required data to support and incorporate new failure modes into risk management files
• Collaborate with the Medical Safety Office to support monitoring activities and ensure timely escalations.
• Collaborate with the Intuitive Legal Department for legal claims
• Ensure compliance to post market surveillance processes for regulatory database searches, literature reviews, surveys, and other proactive surveillance
• Assess product relationship to reported complaints to root cause
• Align to standard regulatory reporting assessment criteria
• Collaborate on responses for Regulatory Agency Requests fo