Field Clinical Lead Manager

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 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Field Clinical Lead Manager

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

Structural Heart Business Mission: Why We Exist

Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life by designing and providing device and management solutions for treating structural heart disease.

The Field Clinical Lead (FCL) Manager is a strategic, cross-functional leader responsible for overseeing a team of Field Clinical Leads who integrate clinical trial execution, advanced case support, and commercial clinical partnership across the Structural Heart (SH) portfolio.

This role blends clinical affairs rigor with commercial execution, ensuring excellence in clinical outcomes, trial delivery, physician engagement, and procedural adoption. The FCL Manager drives alignment across Global Clinical Affairs, Commercial leadership, and R&D, while maintaining accountability for regional performance in trial enrollment, case success, and customer value creation.

The FCL Manager leads a team of highly specialized clinical experts (FCLs), ensuring the organization delivers industry-leading procedural expertise, high-quality clinical data, and differentiated customer support.

This is a remote position and will have 50% + travel

We prefer to hire someone in the Midwest or West Coast regions

What You’ll Do

1. Leadership & Talent Development

• Recruit, develop, and retain a high-performing team of Field Clinical Leads.
• Foster a unified team culture blending clinical and commercial excellence.
• Provide ongoing coaching in:
  • Clinical expertise and procedural excellence
  • Trial execution and data quality
  • Customer engagement and strategic account support
• Drive performance management through quarterly feedback, development plans, and annual reviews
• Build future leadership pipeline and mentor emerging talent.
• Ensure standardization of best practices across regions.

2. Clinical Trial Leadership & Execution

• Provide regional leadership and oversight of clinical trials, including premarket and post-market studies.
• Ensure excellence in:
  • Site selection, activation, and engagement
  • Enrollment strategy and execution
  • Data quality, protocol adherence, and compliance
• Hold team accountable for enrollment targets and forecasting and identification and removal of enrollment barriers
• Partner with investigators, PIs, and research teams to strengthen trial execution and outcomes.
• Promote patient diversity and equitable enrollment strategies.

3. Clinical Expertise & Case Support Oversight

• Ensure FCL team delivers best-in-class procedural support and proctorship:
  • Complex case guidance
  • Investigational and commercial case coverage
  • Abbott Expert Lead (Proctor) execution
• Maintain organizational capability as procedural SMEs across SH therapies.
• Support strategy for:
  • Site launches and program expansion
  • Complex case planning and escalation