Senior Manager, Clinical Science

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Senior Manager, Clinical Research

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology. In Abbott’s Electrophysiology (EP) business, we’re advancing the treatment of heart disease through breakthrough medical technologies in atrial fibrillation, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our St Paul or Plymouth, MN, location, supporting our Electrophysiology medical device division. Senior Manager, Clinical Research will lead scientific activities associated with the design, conduct, and reporting of clinical trials for this therapeutic area.

This position will manage the development of clinical plans, within timelines and budget, with the goal of generating clinical evidence.  This evidence will establish feasibility, achieve regulatory approvals, meet ongoing regulatory requirements, gain reimbursement, and support full commercial adoption of medical devices.  You will manage a team of scientists who support the analysis and interpretation of scientific data and write clinical study protocols, reports, and scientific publications. Your team is responsible for the production of additional study-level documents including informed consent forms, case report forms, and investigator brochures. In this role, you will interact with physician Key Opinion Leaders and various cross-functional teams, including Marketing, R&D, Field Operations, Risk Management, Reimbursement, Medical Affairs, Quality, and Regulatory Affairs. You will also interact with global regulatory agencies to obtain market approval of new products, and with study sites to respond to questions throughout the study.

What you'll work on

• Identifies personnel gaps within the team and provides recommendations of solutions to the Director.
• Involved in candidate selection (sourcing, interviews, etc.)
• Assists in developing the training and educational plans for these individuals
• Management of personnel development, mentoring and effective delegation to direct reports to meet program goals.
• Oversee performance management process for the team.
• Effectively manages team members and deliverables in times of conflict, uncertainty and crisis, and resolve issues in a timely manner in conjunction with functional management.
• Appropriately disseminates feedback from governance bodies and the functions to the team and extended organization.
• Leads and motivates functional area teams to meet key project deliverables and timelines by developing effective technical strategies and execution
• Accountable for strategy development and execution for specified clinical area.
• Fosters creative thinking, innovation, knowledge sharing and reasoned risk-taking.
• Effectively communicate information through the planning and execution of meetings and presentations and present recommendations to senior staff.
• Ensures appropriate review and refinement of project plans by functional a