Therapy Development Specialist - SE Territory

Abbott Therapy Development Specialist

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 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

The Therapy Development Specialist is responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with key physicians and site-specific stakeholders to achieve clinical trial enrollment objectives. This person will be streamlining the patient screening process at participating sites, conducting referral and educational activities to support therapy development for our Structural Heart clinical team. 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 prefer candidates that live in Nashville, TN; Atlanta, GA; or Charlotte, NC, Orlando, FL or in the larger SE United States area. 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.

What You'll Work On:

• Define strategies to drive enrollment at clinical trial sites within assigned territory to meet enrollment targets.
• Establishes 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.
• Facilitate clinical trial awareness activities to support site investigators including organizing potential 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.
• Maintain up to date product and clinical trial knowledge and actively participate in education programs.
• This position will work closely within the clinical study team including the medical director, program and project management, commercial team and other clinical study personnel. This position will have significant interaction with investigators, research coordinators, physician assistants, nurses. This position will be required to execute their job responsibilities within the corporate policies and standard operating procedures.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree required; Degree in the sciences, medicine, or similar discipline highly preferred.
• Significantly experienced (6+ years) 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
• Ability to travel based on business need for 50% of the time
• Demonstrated knowledge of cardiac medical procedures.

Preferred

• Advanced degree preferred.

The base pay for this position is $85,300.00 $170,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.