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At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. Youll lead with purpose breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

The Clinical Research Manager Core Surgical Innovations (CSI) reports to the Sr. Clinical Research Director CSI. This position is responsible for leading a team of research coordinators and site leads responsible for supporting all global clinical research activities to generate clinical evidence in support of the business. The Clinical Research Leader is responsible for supporting the clinical strategy in alignment with the business R&D and commercial strategies for the CSI Business Unit. The leader is also responsible for operationally driving the execution of pre-market and post-market clinical trials globally including quality outcomes and results.
The goal of these critical research 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. Clinical research programs will support global regulatory approval reimbursement coverage through comparative effectiveness evidence therapy adoption and new addition the individual will collaborate closely with CSI Clinical Program Managers and Clinical Strategy Managers to ensure ongoing alignment with over-arching evidence requirements timelines and budget.

Ideal candidate would work from our Boston Lafayette or Minneapolis site. We will consider candidates from Europe with a preference for Trevoux or Maastricht.

In this exciting role as a Clinical Research Manager your primary responsibility will be to lead a team responsible for preparing sites for data collection relationship building with research coordinators regulatory report writing and data addition the CRM will lead a number of key strategic initiatives in collaboration with Clinical Study Managers and Clinical Research Program Managers.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Provides leadership for the conduct of clinical studies.
• Studies must be scientifically valid meet all relevant regulatory requirements and be conducted within ethical guidelines.
• The result of the clinical studies must be a fair assessment of the safety and efficacy of the tested product (s) and attainment of product approvals in a timely matter.
• Ensures regulatory submissions are accurately prepared and comply with regulatory approvals.
• People working within region/country may also have the responsibilities that include:
• Represents Medtronic from clinical research respective within the country / region and 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 all the Medtronic products and therapies across the Core Surgical Innovations (CSI) BU.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelors degree required
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience or advanced degree with a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience

Nice to Have

• Masters degree plus 5 years of related experience.

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):$129600.00 - $194400.00

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

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 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.

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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.