What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Specialist, Clinical Field position at JENAVALVE TECHNOLOGY INC?
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Description
Job Title: Senior Specialist, Clinical Field
Supervisor/Manager Title: Senior Manager, Field Education
Job Description Summary: Forms a vital bridge between JenaValve’s clinical and scientific research programs and physicians in the field, through supporting clinical cases, performing field research, developing training materials, conducting on-site training, leading workshops, and presentations, and participating in collaborative research projects with key hospitals and professional societies.
Job Responsibilities:
- Represents JenaValve to medical professionals in product advocacy and education, clinical case support, in-service training, and other related services.
- Delivers technical/clinical training with physicians on-site in hospitals to encourage best practice use of JenaValve devices in the treatment of aortic valve disease.
- Supports JenaValve products currently in development in clinical and marketing contexts.
- Provides workshops and presentations to disseminate TAVR research fundamentals and describing the design and function of JenaValve devices.
- Provides physicians and medical staff with continuous education and technical support related to all aspects of patient outcome, while anticipating and foreseeing obstacles and planning accordingly for smooth execution.
- Advocates with clinicians to uncover other opportunities to expand the use of JenaValve products.
- Interfaces with R&D Engineers to incorporate research developments into training materials.
- Maintains up-to-date knowledge of aortic valve disease and treatment.
- Identifies potential product enhancements and new product ideas by applying an analytical approach to understanding the clinical needs of interventional cardiologists.
- Gathers feedback and clinical information from the field and provides input to R&D product development group.
- Develops and maintains professional, high-quality, physician relationships.
- Plans, prepares, and executes/supports TAVR-related research activities with key collaborative centers in aortic valve disease treatment.
- Co-authors publications and generates data to support publications.
- Participates in and builds a product specialist team, to support cases in North America and other regions.
- Reviews and uses 3D reconstruction programs such as 3mensio or Osiris to transform imaging for screening of potential JenaValve TAVI patients.
- Travel 60-70%.
Qualifications
Required Education and Experience:
- Minimum of 5 years of previous (related) medical device development and/or clinical experience in an acute care environment required.
- Experience working a cross-functional team in a clinical trial setting.
- Vascular procedural knowledge required.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, presentation, and interpersonal relationship skills including negotiating and relationship management skills required.
- Excellent problem-solving and critical thinking skills required.
- Ability to perform in a fast-paced, cross-functional team environment required.
- Associates degree in Nursing or related field required, Bachelor’s degree preferred.
- Experience in conference oral presentations and authorship of scientific peer-reviewed publications preferred.
- Expertise in MS Office Suite required.
Skills and Abilities Required for This Job:
- Excellent presentation and verbal communication skills are essential.
- Technically competent, confident, and able to engage peer-to-peer with R&D engineers and physicians.
- Training skills and experience.
- Customer focused. Able to develop and maintain trustworthy relationships.
- Creative and solutions oriented.
- Autonomous and accountable.
- Empathic team player (exhibit positive mindset of respect and readiness to help and support).
- Effective career development skills for direct reports including advocating on their behalf to senior leadership and management.
- Capable of working in a changing work environment.
- Ability to identify and develop new opportunities.
- Excellent listening and interpersonal skills, ability to communicate across all levels of an organization.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple initiatives.
Salary : $140,000 - $170,000