Senior Clinical Research Manager - Pain Intervention - Fridley, MN
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
Join Medtronic’s Neuromodulation and Pelvic Health team as a Senior Clinical Research Manager, where you’ll oversee the team which drives the clinical evidence generation and dissemination strategy to support therapy innovation, adoption, and access. This is a high-impact, management role that bridges science, strategy, and execution, developing publication planning strategy and incorporating AI and real-world evidence (RWE) to transform patient outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
Leads development and execution of clinical evidence for both local and global studies, manages clinical evidence generation over all Pain and Interventional therapies products (SCS, TDD, and Interventional).
Evidence generated must be scientifically valid, meet all relevant reimbursement and regulatory requirements and be conducted within ethical guidelines.
Evidence generation must be a fair assessment of the safety and effectiveness of the tested product (s), as well as patient reported outcomes, including but not limited to quality of life and satisfaction.
Represents Medtronic from a clinical research perspective 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.
Oversees strong communication with internal and external stakeholders as it relates to evidence development and strategic evidence dissemination.
Strategic Leadership & Evidence Planning
Translate business and therapy strategies into clinical evidence plans to enable clinical insights which drive evidence generation
Support product lifecycle alignment with R&D, Regulatory, HEOR, Marketing, and Clinical Affairs
Stakeholder Engagement
Partner with key opinion leaders and scientific advisors to generate high-quality, high-impact evidence
Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to drive timely, impactful dissemination
Ensure regional evidence needs are captured and incorporated into global strategy
Management
Performs management duties for the Pain Therapies clinical evidence team
Ensures team achieves committed deliverables
QUALIFICATION (Must Have):
Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of clinical research, strategy, or program management experience
OR advanced degree with 3+ years of clinical research, strategy, or program management experience
3+ years of leadership experience in a healthcare setting, ideally in medical devices or regulated clinical research
PREFERRED QUALIFICATION:
Master’s degree (MS, MPH, MBA) or PhD in life sciences, engineering, or public health
Knowledge of neuromodulation, pain, or neuroscience therapy areas
Experience influencing upstream pipeline and downstream reimbursement/market access strategy
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.
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
We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people.
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.
Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here.
It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
If you are applying to perform work for Medtronic, Inc. (“Medtronic”) in any position which will involve performing at least two (2) hours of work on average each week within the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County, you can find here a list of all material job duties of the specific job position which Medtronic reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment. Medtronic will consider for employment qualified job applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
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