We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 19 May 2025

 

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

The Sr. Clinical Director for Neuromodulation, Pain Therapies reports to the VP, Clinical Research and Medical Science NMPH. This position is responsible for directing all global clinical research activities and programs to generate clinical evidence in support of the business. The Sr. Clinical Director is responsible for supporting the clinical strategy in alignment with the business, R&D, regulatory and commercial strategies for the pain therapies business. The leader is also responsible for designing and driving the execution of pre-market and post-market clinical trials globally, including driving outcomes and results, and collaborating for the dissemination of the resulting evidence to internal and external stakeholders. The goal of these programs is to develop the medical evidence necessary to demonstrate safety, efficacy, economic and quality of life outcomes for the performance of our products and therapies. Programs will support global regulatory approval, reimbursement coverage through comparative effectiveness evidence, therapy adoption and new indications.

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

• Provides leadership for the conduct of clinical studies and in the development of clinical evidence for pre-market and post-market trials/studies for the Pain therapy as it applies to product lifecycle
• Leads the process to define the key stakeholder needs (including but not limited to customer, regulatory agency and payer requirements) for medical evidence for the safety, efficacy, and economic outcomes necessary to establish our therapies as the standard of care.
• Provides strategic leadership to evidence generation activities including design of Clinical trials retrospective database analysis, meta-analysis, translation of clinical data to marketing messages.
• Ensures studies are scientifically valid, meet all relevant regulatory requirements and are conducted within ethical guidelines
• Ensures there is a fair assessment of the safety and efficacy of the tested product (s)
• Develops and implements regulatory strategies to obtain timely product approvals from worldwide regulatory bodies
• Represents Medtronic from a clinical research respective within the country / region and also collects feedback from local customers and authorities
• Builds and maintains a strong network and close relationship with the various internal and external parties
• Leads execution for both local and global studies, manages clinical research projects over the Pain therapy across multiple businesses

PEOPLE MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONAL CAREER STREAM: Management and supervisory professionals with one or more employees who are focused on tactical, operational and some strategic activities within a specified area. Levels within the management career stream typically have six or more direct reports. Most time is spent overseeing their area of responsibility, managing performance, developing talent, engagement and inclusion, communicating business and operational developments, planning, prioritizing and / or directing the responsibilities of direct reports. Goal achievement is typically accomplished through performance of direct and / or indirect reports. Key accountabilities:

• Managing people, which includes accountability for mentoring, developing and coaching staff on meeting/exceeding performance expectations
• Defining objectives and providing leadership to staff to ensure the prioritization of strategic and department level initiatives
• Setting performance goals and targets, conducting performance reviews and driving a culture of accountability

DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS

Autonomy: 

• Manages multiple departments or division that includes multiple teams led by managers and / or supervisors
• Provides clear strong leadership on future direction
• Establishes organizational policies in a major segment of the company
• Performs work without appreciable direction

Organizational Impact: 

• Leads the development of the corporate strategy for own major business unit or function.
• Accountable for achievement of overall major business unit or function goals.
  Management authority to make significant business and strategic decisions.
• Typically has budget or P&L accountability for one or more functional areas, geographies, divisions, product groups or service groups.

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