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A Day in the Life

Join Medtronics Neuromodulation and Pelvic Health team as a Principal Medical Science Liaison where you will oversee relationships with key opinion leaders (KOLs) healthcare professionals and other stakeholders and support a wide array of initiatives to support professional society engagement and strategy design and implementation. Provide clinical and scientific support for Medtronic Neuromodulation products ensuring accurate and balanced information is shared.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Engagement & Implementation

• Implements strategic goals established by functional leadership.

• Manages large moderately complex initiatives of strategic importance to the organization involving large cross-functional teams and adhering to timeline and budget.

• Works independently to implement strategic goals and establish operational plans.

• Assignments are often self-initiated. Determines and pursues courses of action necessary to obtain desired results.

• Identifies and communicates novel evidence generation opportunities including external research projects collaborative research real-world evidence etc.

Stakeholder & Society Engagement

• Nurtures deep collegial relationships with key thought leaders and professional societies.

• Builds relationships and demonstrates the clinical outcome and benefits of company products to thought leaders medical groups government agencies key opinion leaders and health systems consumer-ready medical products by communicating product-related information to investigators and institutions.

• Supports continuing education workshops seminars and programs for graduate physicians pharmacists and scientists.

• Supports strategic planning for society engagements for Neuromodulation including podium presence and evidence dissemination

• Ensures external research program (ERP) priorities are implemented and oversees milestones through close collaboration health care professionals.

Therapeutic Area Expertise

• Demonstrates extensive knowledge of all clinical and scientific data for our products and maintains a deep understanding of the science behind our products.

• Maintains grows and shares clinical and scientific knowledge of current trends in neuromodulation

Communication

• Provides perspective to field activities associated with growing existing products and bringing new products to market.

• Conducts briefings as required with senior leaders within the operating unit.

• Collaborates with others to reach understanding or agreement.

• Responsibilities may include the above and other duties may be assigned.

Onsite

This is an ONSITE position located in Fridley/Rice Creek MN.

At Medtronic we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. Were working onsite 4 days a week to drive performance foster an environment of belonging and collaborate to inspire as we engineer the extraordinary.

Travel: Requires 50% travel domestic and international

Must-Have Qualifications

• Baccalaureate degree with a minimum 7 years of relevant experience

• Or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree strongly preferred (PharmD PhD MD); Masters or equivalent clinical/scientific background with a minimum of 5 years of experience.

• Proven project management experience

• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills including experience presenting to executive leadership

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in matrixed environment

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills

• Ability to interpret and communicate complex scientific information to diverse audiences

• Experience in healthcare ideally within medical devices or regulated clinical research.

• Willingness to travel up to 50%

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 insuranceHealth Savings AccountHealthcare Flexible Spending AccountLife insurance Long-term disability leaveDependent daycare spending accountTuition assistance/reimbursement andSimple 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 matchShort-term disabilityPaid time offPaid holidaysEmployee Stock Purchase PlanEmployee Assistance ProgramNon-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums) andCapital 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 95000 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 addition Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.