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

A Day in the Life

Medtronic

At Medtronic, we value what makes you unique. Be part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress and deliver meaningful innovations.

Our Purpose

The ACM OU is committed to excellence in innovation and commercialisation to pursue our vision and long-term business growth. The ACM OU R&D organisation is refining its innovation, product delivery and commercialisation approach to enable product leadership across all segments of our product portfolio. This will require enhancing our innovation processes, refining our design and delivery approaches to deliver an integrated and comprehensive portfolio that enables product development excellence across ACM.

The Distinguished Scientist is the primary ACM OU Strategy, Clinical Need, Market and Product interface role in the Research and Technology group and for the Acute Care Monitoring business. The Distinguished Scientist will lead international teams both internal and external collaborations and is responsible for growth, strategy, planning, execution, and implementation of new products.

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A Day in The Life Of:

Engineers and Scientists create our market-leading portfolio of innovations. Join us to make a lasting impact. Help bring the next generation of life-changing medical technology to patients worldwide.  The Distinguished Scientist provides scientific leadership for new technology and products development in the AC&M operating unit.Specifically, the Distinguished Scientist should have knowledge and experience in methodology and process of scientific exploration as well as technology development for medical devices.  In addition to expertise in technical field, a strong background in the area of physiology, patient monitoring, airway access, neuro and/or hemodynamic monitoring is preferred.   Particularly, experience in early technology development in medical device is highly desired.Attitude, be comfortable dealing with ambiguity, and to be confident about being able to apply business acumen to help make pragmatic trade-off decisions between time-to-market, product costs, product reliability, product features, and budget.Working with clinical KOLs around the world, understanding their needs and translating the needs and potential solutionsWorking with both internal and external teams, finding the right expertise around the globe to develop a solution.

Responsibilities Include:

Produce R&D technology roadmap that support the product vision of the business.Key member of Research & Technology and Open Innovation.Key contributor of the strategy direction of multiple technologies in our portfolio or adjacent technologies.Maintaining up-to-date knowledge of the evolving clinical, marketing and technology trend in relevant field.  Leading the effort of generating the Need Specification for new products.Understand Customer Needs / Clinical Problem that are both spoken or unspoken.Produce detailed Problem Description via Gap Analysis of disease state fundamentals and the basic anatomy and/or physiology.Work with cross-functional teams to develop Market Description.Performance Stakeholder Analysis.Identify Barriers of Adoption for new technology and products.Close collaborate with marketing to execute Market Analysis, understand and estimate Market Potential and Competitive Landscape.Translate customer need to specific Need Criteria that include Product Features and Functions; Performance Requirements, cost and Price range, Characteristics.Provide input and be a key contributor to the development team that is responsible to establish Technical Feasibility,Have a thorough understanding of design control procedures, regulatory submissions, and standards related to AC&M products.Conceive, design and supervise the execution of the required preclinical and clinical studies to support product development.Work with the regulatory teams to understand the market space and assist with device submissions and regulatory questions.Mentoring and developing the technical expertise of the new Tech Dev/Pre-concept team,When required, represents the organization as the prime technical contact on projects.Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.Responsible for the initiation, design, development, execution, and implementation of scientific research projects.Investigates the feasibility of applying scientific principles and concepts to potential inventions and products.Plans and executes laboratory research.Maintains substantial knowledge of state-of-the art principles and theories and may contribute to scientific literature and conferences.May participate in development of patent applications.May coordinate interdepartmental activities and research efforts.

Differentiating factors

Autonomy: Recognized technical authority and innovator within the organization in field of expertise. Plans R&D or system projects or strategic functional initiatives and recommends technological application projects / solutions to accomplish medium-term to long-range objectives.Organizational Impact: Contributes to the design of new products, processes, standards, or operational plans based on business strategy with a direct impact on functional area for the business unit.
Influences business decisions made by leadership.Establishes operational plans for job area with long-range impact on results. Integrates critical information requiring expert knowledge in field of expertise. Leverages technical breadth and depth to set, review and validate product and technology goals/roadmap for a business unit.Innovation and Complexity: Faces problems that are complex, requiring broad-based consideration of variables that impact multiple areas of the organization. Develops solutions which are novel and unique and drawing upon best practices based on expertise. Writes technical papers and/or patents; Fosters technical innovation. Expected to guide or lead business unit in new technical directions.Communication and Influence: Serves as a principal spokesperson internally related to subject matter expertise pertaining to its policies, plans, and objectives, new technological / technical research, functional thought leadership and other significant advancements.
Uses influence, negotiation, and persuasion to achieve objectives.Leadership and Talent Management: Provides guidance, coaching and training to other employees within business unit.
Typically manages large, complex initiatives of strategic importance to the business unit, involving large cross-functional teams.

Key Skills & Experience

Required Knowledge and Experience: Requires a Baccalaureate degree and minimum of 15 years of relevant experience OR Master's degree with a minimum of 13 years relevant experience OR PhD with 11 years relevant experience.PhD preferred or equivalent with specialization in Biomedical, Optical, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering10+ years of medical device industry experience with focus in product development.Familiarity with the BioDesign process and “Design Thinking” with Immersion and Empathic approaches.Experience with Early Stage Research through Commercialization of medical deviceExperience with pre-clinical research, protocol development, and clinical studiesExperience with Regulatory interactions such as drafting technical justifications/rational, participate in pre-submissions, and generating key documents for final submissions.Ability to work with cross-functional teamsExcellent communication skills and essential Project Management skillsHas a background in coming up with invention disclosuresThorough understanding of Design control, risk assessment, and regulatory requirements.Advanced knowledge of and experience in applying engineering principles, analytical techniques and judgment to resolve major technical issues and establish new methods, controls & procedures.

Nice to Have

May have practical knowledge of project management.Experience implementing or executing operations projects/programs, new process, tools and program and/or portfolio dashboards.Excellent mitigation management and problem-solving skills.Strong communication and relationship skills.Strong presentation skills, both delivery and development.DRM, DFSS or Six Sigma Green Belt Certified.

Medtronic offer a competitive salary and flexible Benefits Package

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. 

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.
 

 

Pay range / Rango salarial / Intervalo salarial /Fascia retributiva / Tranche de salaire / Gehaltsband / Salaribereik:  Ireland: 129,600.00 EUR - 194,400.00 EUR | 

 

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

This position is eligible for an annual long-term incentive plan.

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 95,000+ 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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