Senior Clinical Research Director, Pain

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 12 Apr 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.

Innovation and Complexity:

• Champions innovation across the company recommending programs or projects and conceptualizing and developing new approaches
• Problems and issues faced are complex, undefined and impact multiple businesses or functions, where information is typically difficult to obtain and extensive investigation to understand the root cause of problems is required

Communication and Influence:

• Identifies, initiates, establishes and develops long term strategic relationships and alliances with key organizational stakeholders
• Serves as principal spokesperson for the department, broad functional area or geography making recommendations to leaders and executives regarding strategic initiatives
• Influences across functions and businesses to negotiate and gain cooperation on divergent objectives

Leadership and Talent Management:

• Directs and controls one or more functional areas, geographies, divisions, product groups or service groups that include multiple teams led by directors and / or Sr Managers
• Determines organizational structure and develops talent strategies
• Develops management team to support strategic objectives
• Authorizes hiring, firing, promotion and reward within own area

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Minimum of 15 years of clinical experience (13+ with advanced degree) with 10+ years of managerial experience
• Prior Medical Device Experience

Nice to have/Preferred Requirements:

• Strong preference for an advanced degree (Master of Science, Ph.D., PharmD)
• Demonstrated ability maintain proactive relationship with Executives, R&D, Marketing, Regulatory etc. across Medtronic
• Demonstrated use of business and financial measures
• Ability to influence across functions and businesses to negotiate and gain cooperation on divergent objectives
• Strong strategic thinking, leadership, and communication skills. Proven record of driving business growth and innovation.
• People leadership skills to develop, motivate, and retain talent during a time of significant organizational change
• Effectively communicates both written and verbal at all levels in an organization, externally and with diverse groups. Position requires excellent poise and confidence when interacting with physicians, patients, sales, across organizational functions and senior leadership. Ability to summarize complex information in a clear and concise manner.
• Proven ability to operate in a matrix environment and work effectively with sales & marketing management as well as other functions including, regulatory, clinical, quality, reimbursement, research and development, manufacturing, finance, human resources, information technology and legal
• Proven record to work independently, while achieving aggressive personal and geographic objectives. Highly motivated, "can do" attitude with strong influence management skills
• Proven history of good judgment. Demonstrated integrity and respect of peers and broader team
• Must embody the Medtronic Leadership Expectations

• Experience developing and maintaining project plans for multiple projects and provide weekly and/or monthly status reporting to upper management.
• Understanding of dynamic clinical research environment including global regulations and policies

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$256,000.00 - $384,000.00

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

This position is eligible for an annual long-term incentive plan.

The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: Health, Dental and vision insurance, Health Savings Account, Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, Life insurance, Long-term disability leave, Dependent daycare spending account, Tuition assistance/reimbursement, and Simple Steps (global well-being program).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees: Incentive plans, 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match, Short-term disability, Paid time off, Paid holidays, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Employee Assistance Program, Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums), and Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).

Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.

Further details are available at the link below:

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

About Medtronic

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Our Mission - to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life - unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people.
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