Associate Director, Clinical Research

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:

Associate Director, Clinical Research

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your 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.

• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.

• An excellent retirement savings plan with a 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 worldwide 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 the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Plymouth or St Paul, MN location for our Electrophysiology Medical Device business.  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.

This role will plan and manage multiple or complex Clinical Affairs Program(s) across all functional areas, within budget and timelines. Represents Clinical Affairs function at Clinical Advisory Board meetings, interactions with Regulatory Agencies, and for evaluation of business opportunities including due diligence.

What You’ll Work On

• Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures.

• Budgetary responsibility for cost center or Clinical Affairs program. Ensure development of accurate budgets, contract development and execution, payments and tracking of study, clinical evaluation, and/or risk management expenditure as directed by your manager.

• Management of personnel development, mentoring and effective delegation to direct reports to meet program goals. Effectively communicate information through the planning and execution of meetings and presentations and present recommendations to senior staff. Manage performance management process for the team.

• Accountable for strategy development and execution for specified clinical area.

• Effective coordination of all functional areas involved in the clinical program to solve problems and assure progress and timely completion of program goals.

• Critical review of vendor proposals and contracts to include potential CRO agreements and medical writers to ensure program success. Financial approval of contracts and expenses at specified level.

• Prioritization across teams to ensure strategic goals/milestones within Clinical Affairs are met.

• Develops and maintains current, in-depth, relevant functional knowledge (such as scientific, technical and regulatory aspects) of projects in support of the diagnostic area on a global basis.

• Builds and maintains relationships with key experts and professional organizations that further the effective development of the product and maximize product potential.

• Collaborates with functional management to ensure an appropriate functional spokesperson for the project is identified to interact with relevant stakeholders, including R&D, Regulatory Affairs, commercial management, external experts and professional organizations and regulatory agencies.

• Leads and motivates functional area teams to meet key project deliverables and timelines by developing effective technical strategies, and collaborating with functional management to coordinate tactical execution by sub team members and functional organizations.

• Drives short- and long-term project success by managing and monitoring the function