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 113,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

For years, Abbott’s medical device businesses have offered technologies that are faster, more effective, and less invasive. Whether it’s glucose monitoring system, innovative therapies for treating heart disease, or products that help people with chronic pain or movement disorders, our medical device technologies are designed to help people live their lives better and healthier. Every day, our technologies help more than 10,000 people have healthier hearts, improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders, and liberate more than 500,000 people with diabetes from routine fingersticks.

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.

We have an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to join our rapidly growing clinical team within the Abbott Structural Heart division for our Los Angeles territory. The Senior Therapy Development Specialist is responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with key physicians and site-specific stakeholders to achieve clinical trial enrollment objectives. This individual will be streamlining the patient screening process at participating sites, conducting referral and educational activities to support therapy development.

WHAT YOU’LL DO 

• Define strategies to drive enrollment at clinical trial sites within assigned territory to meet enrolment targets.
• Establish regular touch points with site investigators and research teams to elevate trial visibility, reinforce trial enrollment, streamline patient screening activities, support site teams with tools and best practices to qualify trial candidates, identify and address barriers to enrollment and coordinate with cross-functional team to ensure clinical site productivity.
• Implement escalation plans for clinical trial sites as appropriate.
• Develop relationships with key stakeholders including cardiologist and surgeons, identify and utilize key customer networks to bridge gaps across clinics.
• Gather data on patient pipeline, track enrollment progress and identify trends in customer, research staff, and other clinical trial stakeholder needs.
• Lead clinical trial awareness activities to support site investigators including organizing referral meetings with general cardiologists and primary care physicians to generate education and awareness for the trial. Utilize analytical tools to assist with referral activity planning.
• Engage with site investigators, research teams and hospital public affairs to raise clinical trial awareness with neighboring hospitals through newsletters, banners, social media tools.
• Coordinate communication to prioritize enrollment activities at the site and to ensure excellent procedural outcomes are achieved.
• Lead enrollment presentation discussions at investigator and research coordinator meetings.
• Maintain up-to-date product and clinical trial knowledge and actively participate in education programs.
• Perform other related duties and responsibilities, on occasion, as assigned, which may include taking calls on evenings and weekends for time-sensitive patient and customer needs.

This position will work closely within the clinical study team including the medical director, program and project management, and other clinical study personnel as well as the commercial team. This position will have significant interaction with investigators, research coordinators, physician assistants, and nurses. This position will be required to execute their job responsibilities within the corporate policies and standard operating procedures.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOU’LL BRING 

Required: 

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum 8 years in conducting clinical studies or related laboratory skills.

Preferred:

• Advanced degree
• Significant experience in a field-based role in the medical device industry. Experience with both sales and clinical research (particularly field clinical affairs) is a significant plus.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and/or facilitate educational programs to healthcare professionals
• Familiarity with cath lab procedures and protocol
• Ability to work in a highly matrixed and geographically diverse business environment.
• Ability to leverage and/or engage others to accomplish projects
• Strong verbal and written communications with ability to effectively communicate at multiple levels in the organization
• Multitasks, prioritizes and meets deadlines in a timely manner
• Strong organizational, leadership and follow-up skills, as well as attention to detail
• Ability to travel based on business need for 50% of the time
• Demonstrated knowledge of cardiac medical procedures.

WHAT WE OFFER  

At Abbott, you can have a good job that can grow into a great career. We offer: 

• Training and career development, with onboarding programs for new employees and tuition assistance  
• Financial security through competitive compensation, incentives and retirement plans  

• Health care and well-being programs including medical, dental, vision, wellness and occupational health programs. Participants who complete a short wellness assessment qualify for FREE coverage in our HIP PPO medical plan. Free coverage applies in the next calendar year.

• Paid time off  
• 401(k) retirement savings with a generous company match 
• The stability of a company with a record of strong financial performance and history of being actively involved in local communities 

Learn more about our benefits that add real value to your life to help you live fully:  www.abbottbenefits.com  

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that provides the growth and strength to build your future. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity. 

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The salary for this role is between $80,700 – $161,300