Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. JenaValve Technology, Inc. is a company focused on medical devices, and they are seeking a Specialist in Field Clinical. This role serves as a vital bridge between clinical research and physicians, supporting clinical cases, performing field research, and developing training materials.
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%
Skills
- Minimum of 3 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
- Expertise in MS Office Suite required
- 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
- Bachelor's degree preferred
- Experience in conference oral presentations and authorship of scientific peer-reviewed publications preferred
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