Principal Medical Affairs Specialist
Medtronic
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**
**Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned**
**Mastery of a specialty area and full knowledge of industry practices, typically obtained through advanced education and experience. Requires a Baccalaureate degree (or equivalent) and a minimum of 7 years of relevant experience, or an advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience**
**MBBS/MD/ DM/ BDS/ MDS**
**Demonstrating extensive knowledge of all clinical and scientific data for Medtronic products and maintaining a deep understanding of the science behind them.**
**Providing advanced subject matter expertise and medical input to various functions (General Management, Global Strategy & Portfolio Management, Business Development & Licensing, Research & Development, & Marketing) to facilitate decision-making and enable achievement of business objectives.**
**Ensuring effective, objective value propositions are developed and articulated for Medtronic technologies to stakeholders (patients, health care providers, payers, government agencies, health technology assessment organizations, public) through appropriate channels.**
**Developing competitive intelligence in the product space.**
**Driving education and outreach for safe and effective use of products.**
**Developing, implementing, and overseeing integrated evidence-based medical affairs strategic plans for relevant Medtronic organizations.**
**Building and nurturing deep, collegial relationships with key thought leaders, professional societies, and payers.**
**Driving the adoption of tools and techniques for the safe and effective use of products.**
**Communicating product-related information to investigators, institutions, and key stakeholders, including medical groups, government agencies, and health systems.**
**Providing perspective to field activities associated with growing existing products and bringing new products to market.**
**(MBBS/ MD, BDS /MDS Designation only) Licensed Practitioners may bridge communication between sales, marketing, and clinical teams.**
**Conducting continuing education workshops, seminars, and programs for graduate physicians, pharmacists, and scientists.**
**Responding to unsolicited inquiries.**
**Specialist Career Stream:**
**Typically an individual contributor with responsibility in a professional discipline or specialty.**
**Delivers and/or manages projects and may act as a mentor or direct the work of lower-level professionals.**
**Differentiating Factors:**
**Autonomy:** **Recognized expert, managing large projects or processes with considerable latitude and limited oversight.**
**Organizational Impact:** **Contributes to defining direction for new products, processes, standards, or operational plans with significant impact.**
**Innovation and Complexity:** **Develops solutions to moderately complex problems and implements improvements independently.**
**Communication and Influence:** **Represents the organization as a primary contact for projects and initiatives; may negotiate and influence decision-making.**
**Leadership and Talent Management:** **Provides guidance, coaching, and training; may manage major projects and act as a team leader.**
**Required Knowledge and Experience:** **Mastery of a specialty area and full knowledge of industry practices, typically obtained through advanced education and experience. Requires a Baccalaureate degree (or equivalent) and a minimum of 7 years of relevant experience, or an advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience**
**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.
This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).
**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.
Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here (http://www.medtronic.com)
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.
**We change lives** . Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives.
**We build extraordinary solutions as one team** . With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough.
**This life-changing career is yours to engineer** . By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will…
+ **Build** a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world
+ **Grow** a career reflective of your passion and abilities
+ **Connect** to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning
These commitments set our team apart from the rest:
**Experiences that put people first** . Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need.
**Life-transforming technologies** . No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms.
**Better outcomes for our world** . Here, it’s about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls.
**Insight-driven care** . Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care
It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
For sales reps and other patient facing field employees, going into a healthcare setting is considered an essential function of the job and we expect our employees to comply with all credentialing requirements at the hospitals or clinics they support.
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