Screening Analyst

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 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Screening Analyst

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

This position works out of our St Paul, MN location, supporting Structural Heart products in Abbott’s New Ventures division. 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.

As a TMVR Screening Analyst, you will conduct the patient selection and screening process for Cephea clinical studies. The incumbent will work within the internal clinical study team including the clinical science, project management, field clinical affairs, medical affairs, biostatistics, study management, and data management, as well as with external investigative teams to develop and execute on the Transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) screening process for clinical studies. This position will have interaction with physicians and clinical operations teams.

What You’ll Work On

• Patient screening and selection for first-in-class Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement (TMVR) clinical studies
• Assist in developing materials to enable patient selection for TMVR studies based on complex analyses of medical imaging data, as well as other materials (reports summarizing findings, preparation of summaries etc,) to support trial enrollments
• Independently owning the screening process end-to-end from image acquisition to final decision for inclusion/exclusion by an independent subject eligibility committee (SEC)
• Interfacing and collaborating with physician investigators, directing, and training them to ensure that the right types of subjects are screened for the trial
• Proactively and critically examining ways to enhance overall clinical trial performance
• Providing ongoing feedback concerning all aspects of study screening experience for the purpose of developing and implementing strategies that will contribute to organizational and corporate goals and objectives
• Collaborating with the internal core clinical study team and clinical sites to share best practices and develop capabilities to optimize trial participation and contribution
• Complying with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations, other regulatory requirements, Company policies, operating procedures, processes, and task assignments
• Assisting with design, development, and monitoring of clinical evaluation projects
  
  

 

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors’ degree in life sciences or related field
• Minimum 4 years related clinical and/or medical industry work experience with in-depth knowledge of structural heart, cardiology, cardiovascular surgery, and/or critical care medicine. Strong working knowledge in heart valve replacement and repair, transcatheter structural heart technologies, echocardiography, cardiovascular hemodynamics, and heart failure medicine.
• Experience working in a clinical setting and being integrally involved in delivering car 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 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.
  
  

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, You Can Do Work That Matters, Grow, And Learn, Care For Yourself And 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.
• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with 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 around the world 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 a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
  
  

The Opportunity

Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life through the design and provision of device and management solutions for the treatment of Structural Heart disease. We aim to lead the markets we serve by requiring the solutions we offer customers provide an improved benefit/risk profile as compared to existing standards of care; a performance threshold that by definition, guides and ensures the productive output of our engineering, business development, and clinical research efforts result in outcomes that advance the standard of care.

This particular role is focused on Abbott’s Stroke Prevention offering which encompasses patent foramen ovale (PFO) as well as the recently approved FDA approved AmplatzerTM AmuletTM LAA Occluder.

The Clinical Specialist provides clinical and sales support through education of current and potential customers, and procedure coverage with a defined region. In this role, the Clinical Specialist with train interventional cardiologists, catheter lab staff and ancillary personnel on the use of Structural Heart products and provide technical support to physicians during procedures. The role is responsible for communicating product, clinical and market data to appropriate personnel and will support the company’s efforts to develop and implement product marketing strategies.

This position may be hired at different level, depending on the experience of the candidate. This position may travel in excess of 50%.

What You’ll Work On

• Collaborate with Territory Managers to provide good case coverage and clinical outcomes for patients.
• Serve as primary resource for clinical support in the areas of surgical coverage, troubleshooting and in-service education for company products.
• Educate customer on the merits and proper clinical usage of company products. Inform customers of the latest product, therapy and technology developments in the industry.
• Actively engage in clinical, procedural and technical discussions and link data outcome to key messaging.
• Meet with existing and potential clients (health care providers) to identify their clinical needs, goals and constraints related to patient care and provide creative and feasible solutions.
• This role requires a strong clinical orientation with the ability to influence a variety of clinician personality types.
  
  

Required Qualifications

• BS/BA or equivalent experience.
• 2-5 years of related cardiovascular work experience.
• Verification that you will satisfy all vendor credentialing requirements, which may include vaccination for COVID-19. If you require a medical or religious accommodation from these requirements or if you would like to understand more about these requirements, please advise HR so that we can provide additional information and if needed, we can explore any needed accommodation(s).
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Degree in life sciences or medical training (RN, EMT, Perfusion, etc.).
• Strong clinical orientation, experience with products for use in interventional cardiology and cardiac surgery, familiarity with echo cardiology and other indirect imaging.
• Strong consideration will be given to candidates with EP (Electrophysiology) and SH (Structural Heart) sales experience.
  
  

Apply Now

• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year
  
  

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The base pay for this position is $60,000.00 – $120,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.